Tom Schofield: AI and the Absurd
Channel: NeMe
Date: 15/10/2023

Absurdity is a side-effect of total certainty, occasional error, and no accompanying sense of humour. The very specificity of the uses AI is applied to and the inability to zoom out makes it a fertile terrain for the absurd. Discussing our new works and drawing on the history of parody and the absurd, I will ask whether a creative critique of the absurdity of AI can help us think about it differently.

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