More Human Than Human
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More Human Than Human

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eBook - ePub

More Human Than Human

About this book

I was a musician before I was anything else. That's how I first used technology-not through code or commerce, but through sound. In the late 1980s, I stood in an "electronic music studio" at Bennington College in Vermont, staring at a new keyboard called The Synclavier. I didn't know how it worked, but I could feel what sounds it wanted to make. It wasn't just a machine-it was a co-conspirator. It could emulate, sample, sequence, and distort. I could pull emotion out of circuitry. At the time, it felt like the future. Not the kind with flying cars, but the kind where machines could jam with you, if you knew how to ask. What struck me then still rings true now: the best machines don't replace creativity. They provoke it.

Foreword by Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroscientist, Dean of Social Science, Harvard University

We are living in a time when the boundary between mind and machine is no longer theoretical-it is experiential. Every day, millions of people interact with systems that predict, persuade, and create. Yet, as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more powerful, the most urgent question may not be what machines can do, but what they reveal about us in the process.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. More Human Than Human: What the Uncanny Valley Reveals About Us
  10. 2. What Happens to Art When the Machine Joins the Band?
  11. 3. The “Artificial Intelligence Music Designer” Has Entered the Chat
  12. 4. Raw and Real
  13. 5. Designing With Intention: When Music is Made by no One and for Everyone
  14. 6. “Statistically Speaking, the World Doesn’t End that Often”
  15. 7. Artificial Intelligence Companions, Ambient Interfaces, and the Disappearing User Experience
  16. 8. Memory as a Service: What it Means for Us
  17. 9. Why Artificial Intelligence Feels Like Doping—And why it Isn’t
  18. 10. Why Creativity, Not Code, Will Shape the Future of Artificial Intelligence
  19. 11. If Everyone’s Chasing the Trend, Who’s Making the Future?
  20. 12. The Empathy Algorithm: Can Machines Truly Care?
  21. 13. Analog Roots and Digital Wings: How Pre-Digital Creatives Flourish with Artificial Intelligence
  22. 14. How Solitude Became Music’s Most Powerful Tool
  23. 15. The Creative Divide: Who Gets to Dream with the Machine?
  24. 16. Who Owns the Spark? How Artificial Intelligence Learns to Make Music and Why that’s an Ethical Minefield
  25. 17. The Art of the Possible: How Artists and Artificial Intelligence Might Create Together
  26. 18. What’s the Future of Education in an Artificial Intelligence World (When We’re Getting Too Dumb to Care)?
  27. 19. The End of Monoculture and the Rise of Infinite Mythologies
  28. 20. The Artist in 2035: Between the Mirror and the Campfire
  29. Epilogue: The Hand in the Loop