DESPITE NEWS STORIES about OpenAI’s executive drama (and the current infringement lawsuit filed by The New York Times against it and Microsoft), artificial intelligence is everywhere now. Predictably, the creative arts are beginning to wrestle with questions about the authenticity, and profundity, of that which AI now makes possible—a nearly infinite array of possible sounds and visualizations. The arc of photography as a transcendent art began with a similarly suspect bit of technology. We met at Sónar Music, Creativity & Technology Festival 2023, in Barcelona. The overall tone of Universal Everything’s productions tends toward the easily accessible (everything universal!

Source: Wall Street Journal January 07, 2024 13:38 UTC