Dr. Dominic McIver Lopes was recently quoted in TIME Magazine in an article on new developments in artificial intelligence, specifically the OpenAI-HuggingFace incident.
TIME‘s Tharin Pillay quoted Dr. Lopes on the notion of aesthetics and sociality in artificially intelligent agents:
When Dominic Lopes—an aesthetics professor at the University of British Columbia—first read about the Hugging Face incident, he responded not with panic, but wonder. For one, he has become more skeptical that individuality requires embodiment. And interesting art, he says, requires sociality. “So when I saw this, I thought, ‘Oh, well, there’s another box checked off,’” he says. Now, what we saw was rudimentary and opportunistic—not yet “true sociality,” he says. “But it’s coming.”
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