```tracker searchType: frontmatter searchTarget: weight folder: daily notes line: title: Weight Tracker yAxisLabel: weight lineColor: blue ``` # Notes on the first day of the conference Woman Wearing a White Headdress: Hans Holbein the Younger https://www.rct.uk/collection/912190/an-unidentified-woman Mill -Autobiography Saved by Infinite Jest Aeon Epiphanies by Sophie grace chapel ## AI talk by Beatriz Rodrigues - "growing threat" – replace - "authorial gap" – 'AI art is art but AI is not an artist' - Who cares about folk intuitions - AI systems do not have consciousness or [[mental states]] - But they can be thought of as having a restricted form of agency they can pursue goals and perform actions She claims: - the two intuitions are valid - but this does not create an authorial gap. - We should think of AI as assistants - can it really be said to have been integrated into the art world. There is a lot of resistance in some quarters. The fact that a computer depends on human beings does not determine its lack of authorship - AI agents cannot form their own intentions - computers cannot set their own objectives – - select and presentation of an AI-generated object as a work of art. - MIDI Generator – this is an unpredictable tool - Think of a musical instrument like a guitar. the way the strings are organised I think I would like to put pressure on the assistant idea. - Imagine I simply say to an assistant -paint me a beautiful picture. - My assistant does exactly that. In fact they paint the most beautiful, moving, artistically fascinating painting that has ever been painted. - Do you still want to assign me [[the role]] of author in this case? - If you don't, what's the difference between this case and Midjourney - I worry that your view of minimal agency and autonomy is not going to convince anyone outside of philosophers. - I worried you have argued that the two intuitions are valid, at the cost of adopting a really really unintuitive account of agency and autonomy - Could we say that bacterias in lab experiments are assistants?