The Uncanny Muse : Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI

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04 Feb, 2025

By David Hajdu (author)

What does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? What is this "uncanny valley," and how did we get here? As the field of art m...

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ISBN-10:

0393540839

ISBN-13:

9780393540833

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W. W. Norton & Company

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English

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What does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? What is this "uncanny valley," and how did we get here? As the field of art made by artificial intelligence begins to expand dramatically, questions about the role of technology in contemporary culture become ever more urgent.

In The Uncanny Muse, David Hajdu explores the history of automation in the arts, tracing the varied ways inventors and artists have sought to emulate mental processes, or fuse the mechanized world and the human soul, over the centuries. Moving from the life-size mechanical doll that made headlines by drawing pictures in Victorian London to the doll's modern-day AI counterpart, Hajdu takes a novel and contrarian approach: he sees how machines through the ages have enabled creativity, not stifled it--and sees no reason why this shouldn't be the case with AI today.

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ISBN-10

:0393540839

ISBN-13

:9780393540833

Publisher

:W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

: 04 Feb, 2025

Editorial Reviews

Are song-making algorithms only the latest in a long series of musical amanuenses? Or is generative AI a new kind of musical synthesizer--a synthesizer of the human creator? The Uncanny Muse offers a timely, richly informative, and beautifully written inquiry into the origins of 'computational creativity, ' framed in the historical context of human creativity and our many mechanical muses.--John Seabrook, author of The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

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The Uncanny Muse : Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI

By David Hajdu (author)

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