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How AI art could enhance humanity's collective memory

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Refik Anadol |

TED2023

• April 2023

With data as his paintbrush, media artist Refik Anadol trains AI algorithms to visualize the disappearing wonders of nature. He gives a beautiful tour of his recent work -- imagery of artificial coral reefs, flowers, rainforests -- and ponders: Can we use AI to preserve our memories of the fading natural world?

With data as his paintbrush, media artist Refik Anadol trains AI algorithms to visualize the disappearing wonders of nature. He gives a beautiful tour of his recent work -- imagery of artificial coral reefs, flowers, rainforests -- and ponders: Can we use AI to preserve our memories of the fading natural world?

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Refik Anadol

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Refik Anadol's data-driven art puts creativity at the intersection of humans and machines, expanding the possibilities of architecture, AI and human imagination.

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This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Support Re:wild, a nonprofit protecting and restoring the wild. This initiative ties into our attempt to make the world's largest and open-source AI model to preserve and protect the world's rainforests.