BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Ted Chiang: The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art DTSTART:20250318T210000Z DTEND:20250318T221500Z UID:https://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/03/ted-chiang/ DESCRIPTION:\n\n Presented in partnership with the Humanities Initiative "\;Media and Meaning"\; project and supported by the Princeton Lab oratory for Artificial Intelligence (AI Lab) and the Princeton Public Libr ary.\n\n\n\n \n \n About Ted Chiang\n \n\n \n\n\n\n Ted Chiang '\;s fiction has won four Hugo Awards\, four Nebula Awards\, six Locus Awards\, and the PEN/Malamud Award and has been reprinted in The Best Ame rican Short Stories. His first collection\, Stories of Your Life and Other s\, has been translated into twenty-one languages\, and the title story wa s the basis for the Oscar-nominated film Arrival. The New York Times chose his second collection\, Exhalation\, as one of the 10 Best Books of 2019. As a 2023 TIME100 Most Influential Person in AI\, Chiang is described as “perhaps the world’s most celebrated living science-fiction author.”  \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Recommen ded reading\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art — The New Yorker\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n By Ted Chiang. To create a novel or a painting\, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligen ce.\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem — Los Angeles Re view of Books\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language\, the stat e of AI\, and the future direction of technology.\n \n \ n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n Humanities for AI\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n This eve nt is part of “Humanities for AI” — a series of projects\, initiativ es\, and conversations that centers humanities values and approaches in th e development\, use\, and interpretation of the field broadly known as AI. While the discourse around AI often prioritizes innovation and acceleratio n\, a humanistic perspective highlights continuities\, explores context\, and fosters critical engagement with algorithms\, systems\, data\, and too ls. At a time when the scale of AI is increasingly large\, a humanistic ap proach values attention to smaller scales and a more deliberate pace. Huma nities for AI seeks to equalize our understanding of technology with an ex tensive\, and user-friendly\, understanding of traditional humanities rese arch topics. Just as we are experts in introducing computational thinking to humanities researchers\, we are now committed to introducing humanistic thinking to researchers in AI.Learn more.\n\n\n\n \n \n Support an d sponsors\n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2025/03/ted-chiang/ LOCATION:50 McCosh Hall\, McCosh Hall\, Princeton\, NJ 08544 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR