Real Artists Survive AI (Abridged Version)


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Don't let AI leave you behind. Feeling threatened by its creative potential? You're not alone. But fear not! This book isn't just about surviving the rise of AI-generated art; it's about thriving in its wake. Discover how to harness your unique human creativity and turn it into a competitive advantage. E.A. Evering, a seasoned creative with over 25 years of experience in Creative Arts, Film Pro., and Business Administration. He has helped individuals and Canadian businesses in the creative industries. In this groundbreaking non-fiction, he shares his insights and strategies for mitigating the challenges of AI as an artist. Discover the "Human Edge Protocol": Proven strategies for real artists to leverage AI's power while nurturing their unique voice and staying irreplaceable. Learn from the author's journey, witness actual, shocking mistakes artists have already made with AI, and discover how to dominate in the age of artificial intelligence. With clear insights, this book shows you who real artists truly are and how they can dominate in a world increasingly shaped by AI, from Hollywood to academics, creative jobs, and beyond. Whether you're a seasoned professional, an aspiring artist, or simply an art enthusiast, Real Artists Survive AI will help you claim your unique artistic voice by avoiding common pitfalls and thriving in the age of AI-generated art. Backed by insights and evidence, some key insights include: Overreliance on AI: Relying too heavily on AI can stifle creativity and originality. Fear of failure: Don’t let fear hold you back from taking risks and exploring new ideas. Comparison to others: Focus on your own unique journey rather than comparing yourself to others, using standardized programs. Lack of self-belief: Trust in your abilities and potential. And more. Please note that this abridged eBook version excludes the in-depth research and historical context found in the full version—Part 1: The Organic Core of an Artist. However, to provide a quicker reading experience, Parts 2 and 3 focus on key pitfalls to avoid when using AI in artistic expressions and offer insightful discussions on the paradox between AI and artistic freedom, perfect for group conversations and academic settings. Be among the first to experience the abridged eBook, available for a limited time only. The complete paperback version, with special features, is coming January 2025, but quantities are limited. The exclusive hardback, also complete and featuring a unique case design, is still in production and will be available only in select bookstores. Order your copy now to ensure you don't miss out on this rare collection. Please don’t forget to subscribe to E.A. Evering's channel.




The Artist in the Machine


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An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans. Today's computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? In this book, Arthur I. Miller takes us on a tour of creativity in the age of machines. Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from “the need for introspection” to “the ability to discover the key problem.” He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, encountering computers that mimic the brain and machines that have defeated champions in chess, Jeopardy!, and Go. In the central part of the book, Miller explores the riches of computer-created art, introducing us to artists and computer scientists who have, among much else, unleashed an artificial neural network to create a nightmarish, multi-eyed dog-cat; taught AI to imagine; developed a robot that paints; created algorithms for poetry; and produced the world's first computer-composed musical, Beyond the Fence, staged by Android Lloyd Webber and friends. But, Miller writes, in order to be truly creative, machines will need to step into the world. He probes the nature of consciousness and speaks to researchers trying to develop emotions and consciousness in computers. Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans—and someday will surpass us. But this is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.




Pharmako-AI


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"This book collects essays, stories, and poems ... [the author] wrote with OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, a neural net that generates text sequences"--Page xi.




Real Artists Don't Starve


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Jeff Goins dismantles the myth that being creative is a hindrance to success by revealing how an artistic temperament is a competitive advantage in the marketplace.? The myth of the starving artist has dominated our culture, seeping into the minds of creative people and stifling their pursuits. The truth is that the world's most successful artists did not starve. In fact, they capitalized on the power of their creative strength. In Real Artists Don't Starve, bestselling author and creativity expert Jeff Goins debunks the myth of the starving artist by unveiling the ideas that created it and replacing them with 14 rules for artists to thrive, including: Steal from your influences (don't wait for inspiration) Collaborate with others (working alone is a surefire way to starve) Take strategic risks (instead of reckless ones) Make money in order to make more art (it's not selling out) Apprentice under a master (a "lone genius" can never reach full potential) From graphic designers and writers to artists and business professionals, creatives already know that no one is born an artist. Goins' revolutionary rules celebrate the process of becoming an artist, a person who utilizes the imagination in fundamental ways. He reminds creatives that business and art are not mutually exclusive pursuits. Real Artists Don't Starve explores the tension every creative person and organization faces in an effort to blend the inspired life with a practical path to success. Being creative isn't a disadvantage for success, it is a powerful tool to be harnessed.




AI Art


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In AI Art, Joanna Zylinska cuts through the smoke and mirrors surrounding the current narratives of computation, robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Offering a critique of the political underpinnings of AI and its dominant aesthetics, this book raises broader questions about the conditions of art making, creativity and labour today.







The Creativity Code


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“A brilliant travel guide to the coming world of AI.” —Jeanette Winterson What does it mean to be creative? Can creativity be trained? Is it uniquely human, or could AI be considered creative? Mathematical genius and exuberant polymath Marcus du Sautoy plunges us into the world of artificial intelligence and algorithmic learning in this essential guide to the future of creativity. He considers the role of pattern and imitation in the creative process and sets out to investigate the programs and programmers—from Deep Mind and the Flow Machine to Botnik and WHIM—who are seeking to rival or surpass human innovation in gaming, music, art, and language. A thrilling tour of the landscape of invention, The Creativity Code explores the new face of creativity and the mysteries of the human code. “As machines outsmart us in ever more domains, we can at least comfort ourselves that one area will remain sacrosanct and uncomputable: human creativity. Or can we?...In his fascinating exploration of the nature of creativity, Marcus du Sautoy questions many of those assumptions.” —Financial Times “Fascinating...If all the experiences, hopes, dreams, visions, lusts, loves, and hatreds that shape the human imagination amount to nothing more than a ‘code,’ then sooner or later a machine will crack it. Indeed, du Sautoy assembles an eclectic array of evidence to show how that’s happening even now.” —The Times




Best Debut Short Stories 2023


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The essential annual guide to the newest voices in literature Selected by Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz Best Debut Short Stories is an annual celebration of the most promising short story writers today. Selected by a panel of distinguished judges, these twelve stories are the 2023 winners of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, which recognizes each writer’s outstanding debut in a literary magazine. The stories in this anthology encompass fraught family gatherings, death, inheritance, reproduction and birth, translation, secrets, and betrayals. They show us what we would rather not face: a grandmother’s repeated resurrection, the loss of a child, a family’s excuses for a predator. They direct our attention away from fluorescence and to the natural world: iguanas climbing into beds, a reflection in an orange, sweat like rain drops, gossamer petals, a child named Ant. They question how well we can ever know other people: partners reconsidering each other on the brink of divorce, an imaginary roommate. They remind us that some questions have no perfect answer: Why pretend not to understand someone in need? What can anyone do with anxieties over becoming a parent? This year’s stories were selected by judges Venita Blackburn, Richard Chiem, and Dantiel W. Moniz, innovators of the short story form. Each story is accompanied by an introduction from the journal editor who first published it, providing insight about what’s exciting in fiction right now, and recognizing the vital work literary magazines do in nurturing new voices.







SHORT Õn SWEET morality tales


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Let's do this thing. In the edge, on the edge looking for the Aleph point, (that one point that contains all space and time, the Nader, the apogee, a point of leverage, something outside of the something. A summer shot down is over. Stay-cation. No epiphany through travel as usual...but where those epiphanies? 'observing other people's freedoms' one of the existentialist called. Or 'the essence of travel is danger'....there is plenty of danger in the stay-cation. The suffocation. Is it that indicated vanishing point rising up to meet him? Them? That little seven year old is running all over the playground. Over that metal sphere....kids were running straight up that thing like spacemen. ...and will, this vanishing point leverage a type of immortality? Who had seen it? What is the news of the frozen point? Couldn't see it from here in the hot, kid-screaming Union square park.