You Can Overcome ‘Creative Mortification’
Have you ever suffered creative mortification? Coined by educator Ronald Beghetto, the term describes losing your willingness to pursue a creative avenue following a negative outcome. Maybe you gave up…
Musicians, Machines, and the AI-Powered Future of Sound
Musicians have also reacted to the general unease generated by ChatGPT and Bing’s AI chatbot. Bogdan Raczynski, reading transcripts of the chatbots’ viral discussions with humans, says over email that…
Human Art Already Has So Much In Common With AI
Despite being human-made, human-taught, and human-promoted, it’s easy to criticize AI for being fundamentally inhuman. To claim that AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E will replace art created by people…
This Is the Most Common New Year’s Resolution Mistake
Photo: Dilok Klaisataporn (Shutterstock) Many new year’s resolutions (and old year’s resolutions) involve starting new, life-improving habits. And while that’s a great idea in theory, the reality is that making…
How to Get People to Actually Listen Your Ideas at Work
Photo: Ground Picture (Shutterstock) When we feel like our ideas go unheard or that our managers and coworkers don’t listen to us, we might be set off on a fast…
Classic WIRED Covers—Regenerated by AI
A.I. ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALVARO DOMINGUEZ + OPEN AI/DALL-E 2 WIRED Issue: 28.09 PHOTOGRAPH: JESSICA PETTWAY Jessica Pettway, Photographer“The visual archive DALL-E is pulling from feels like one of the worst…
Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips
Picture Lee Unkrich, one of Pixar’s most distinguished animators, as a seventh grader. He’s staring at an image of a train locomotive on the screen of his school’s first computer.…
Generative Art Is Challenging What It Means to Be Human
It’s unlikely that Thaler will get the acceptance of the Creativity Machine’s “humanity” that he wants from the Copyright Office. Nor should he—radically redefining our conception of what it means…
Stop Believing These Myths About Creativity
When you think about creativity, who do you imagine? A tortured artist, perhaps? A child without preconceived notions of the world? A group of people brainstorming, or someone who comes…
Are You Sure You Know What a Photograph Is?
As a child, I would sit on the balcony of our Dhaka apartment overlooking the pond and flip through our two family photo albums. After the Bangladesh liberation war in…