Articulating (Uncertain) AI Futures of Artistic Practice:A Speculative Design and Manifesto Sprint Approach

AI is rapidly becoming enmeshed in our professional and private lives. The ubiquity of such technologies raises a host of ethical questions, value clashes, and unforeseen consequences that must be confronted. Developments such as Ai-Da and DALL-E 2 are exciting in that they present robust new capabilities in AI and creativity. However, the futures such technologies unlock are also unpredictable. Given the speed with which such technologies are emerging and becoming adopted, the need to engage target audiences to weigh in on possible AI futures is critical. Our pilot project, Artistic Process Futures and AI, seeks to explore the role and potential implications of AI technologies with artists. In this paper, we show how participatory speculative design processes might be channeled into a public statement, or manifesto, regarding possible and preferable AI futures for supporting the artistic process, and how our workshop exposed uncertainty at the core of such deliberation

Too bad: ChatGPT writes your emails, but it's not Ron Blauw

Kunstmatige Intelligentie speelt een steeds grotere rol in creatieve expressie. ChatGPT en DALL-E genereren binnen seconden teksten, beelden en meer. Dit kan geweldig helpen om creatief werk naar een hoger niveau te tillen, maar er zit ook een keerzijde aan deze innovaties. Creatieve professionals uiten hun zorgen over auteursrecht en de structurele bias en fouten in deze software. We staan daarom op een kruispunt. Accepteren we passief onze groter wordende afhankelijkheid van deze technologie? Of stellen we de nodige maar moeilijke vragen over de sociale, politieke, morele en praktische implicaties van kunstmatige intelligentie en gaan we over tot actie

Too bad: ChatGPT writes your emails, but it's not Ron Blauw

Kunstmatige Intelligentie speelt een steeds grotere rol in creatieve expressie. ChatGPT en DALL-E genereren binnen seconden teksten, beelden en meer. Dit kan geweldig helpen om creatief werk naar een hoger niveau te tillen, maar er zit ook een keerzijde aan deze innovaties. Creatieve professionals uiten hun zorgen over auteursrecht en de structurele bias en fouten in deze software. We staan daarom op een kruispunt. Accepteren we passief onze groter wordende afhankelijkheid van deze technologie? Of stellen we de nodige maar moeilijke vragen over de sociale, politieke, morele en praktische implicaties van kunstmatige intelligentie en gaan we over tot actie

Inner Speaking and Uncertainty during Idea Generation

Inner speaking, the production, and experience of verbal language without any audible vocalization is a critical component of inner experience and imagination. The role that (un)certainty plays in idea generation might explain the unique ways in which idea generation is characterized and affected by different types of inner speech. To explore this open problem, an experiment with a within-subject design (n = 202) was conducted. The results suggested that certainty about the potential of selected information for generating original and useful ideas, elicited using creativity instructions, caused increased self-reinforcement, self-management, and simulation of social interactions with imagined others by inner speaking, but did influence self-critical inner speaking. Self-reinforcing inner speaking, and possibly the simulation of social interactions, subsequently affected the degree of originality and usefulness participants attributed to their ideas. Herewith, the present study contributes novel insight into how inner speaking characterizes and affects idea generation

Internal Dialogue, Creative Potential, and Creative Achievement

Internal dialogue, the verbal intrapersonal communication among our inner voices, characterizes and influences creative thinking. Open questions remain, however, about how individual differences in internal dialogical activity relate to creative thinking. A survey study (N  =  325) was therefore conducted to explore the correlations between individual differences in internal dialogical activity, creative potential, and creative achievement. The results showed that internal dialogical activity correlated positively with creative achievement, which can be explained by a disposition to dialogically engage with thoughts, opinions, and ideas. Internal dialogical activity also correlated positively with originality during divergent thinking, which can be explained by a disposition to experience many types of internal dialogues. Supportive internal dialogical activity positively correlated with the production of many diverse responses. No correlations were found with convergent thinking. Herewith, the present study contributes novel insight into the relationship between internal dialogical activity, creative potential, and achievement

Speaking to your inner Muse: How self-regulation by inner speaking influences confidence during idea evaluation

Idea evaluation is a critical activity in the creative process due to its role in making a decision about what idea(s) should be developed further and implemented, or whether more ideas should be generated. Confidence in the correctness of the evaluation plays a key role in making that decision. Emerging evidence suggests that inner speaking, the talking that we do inside our own minds, can have an influence on creative thinking through its self-regulatory function. However, how self-regulation by inner speaking influences confidence during idea evaluation specifically is an open scientific problem. To explore this, an experiment was conducted with a within-subject design (n = 152). Each participant was asked to evaluate and rank three sets of ideas, which varied in the number of ideas presented, from least to most creative. After evaluating each set of ideas participants self-reported the frequency of positive and negative events, the frequency of self-critical, self-reinforcing, self-managing and socially assessing inner speaking they experienced during idea evaluation, and the confidence they had in their evaluation. The results showed that the effects of evaluating varying numbers of ideas on the frequency of positive and negative events causes variation in the frequency of self-critical, self-reinforcing, and self-managing inner speaking; and that the effects of increased negative events on increased self-critical and decreased self-reinforcing inner speaking negatively influenced the confidence participants had in their evaluation. Herewith, this study contributes new insights into how self-regulation by inner speaking influences confidence during idea evaluation

Sensory Augmentation:Toward a Dialogue between the Arts and Sciences

People sense the world by exploiting correlations between their physical ac-tions and the changing sensory input that results from those actions. Interfac-es that translate non-human sensor data to signals that are compatible with the human senses can therefore augment our abilities to make sense of the world. This insight has recently sparked an increase in projects that explore sensemaking and the creation of novel human experiences across scientific and artistic disciplines. However, there currently exists no constructive dia-logue between artists and scientists that conduct research on this topic. In this position paper, we identify the theory and practice of sensory augmentation as a domain that could benefit from such a dialogue. We argue that artistic and scientific methods can complement each other within research on senso-ry augmentation and identify six thematic starting points for a dialogue be-tween the arts and sciences. We conducted a case study to explore these con-jectures, in which we instigated such a dialogue on a small scale. The case study revealed that the six themes we identified as relevant for a dialogue on sensory augmentation emerge rather spontaneously in such a dialogue and that such an exchange may facilitate progress on questions that are central to the theory and practice of sensory augmentation. Overall, this position paper contributes preliminary evidence for the potential of, and a starting point for, a dialogue between the arts and sciences that advances our understanding of sensory augmentation and the development of applications that involve it