How AI Unleashed (Not Replaced) My Creativity | Kelly A. Boesch | TED · TED
视觉艺术家Kelly A. Boesch分享AI如何成为她的新创作伙伴，帮助她实现梦幻般的艺术作品。适合练习表达创意与艺术结合的英语口语。
As an artist, I want to tell you that AI has completely changed the trajectory of my life.
作为一名艺术家，我想告诉大家：人工智能彻底改变了我的人生轨迹。
Let me show you into some of my worlds.
让我带你们走进我的一些“世界”吧。
When some people were focused on productivity and efficiency, I'd been focused on trying to figure out how to incorporate AI into my art.
当一些人专注于提高生产力和效率时，我却在思考如何将人工智能技术应用到我的艺术创作中。
Like a new paintbrush, a canvas, a camera, a music studio, a doorway into my imagination.
就像一支崭新的画笔、一块画布、一台相机、一间音乐工作室——它们都是通向我想象世界的入口。
I’ve worked in film production, fashion and most recently as a graphic designer.
我曾在电影制作、时尚行业工作，最近则担任平面设计师。
But nothing has sparked my curiosity like AI has.
但没有什么能像人工智能那样激发我的好奇心。
My first images were less “visionary artist” and more, as my friends used to say, "What is that?"
我的早期作品更像是普通的、缺乏艺术创意的图片；用我的朋友们的话来说，那些作品更像是在问：“那是什么？
But I leaned into the strangeness of the AI, and now it has become my signature style.
但我乐于接受人工智能带来的那些“奇怪”之处，如今这种风格已经成为了我的标志性风格。
And I feel like I have a new superpower, and I'm only limited by my imagination, which seems to be endlessly fueled with ideas now.
我觉得自己获得了一项新的“超能力”；唯一限制我的因素就是我的想象力，而我的想象力似乎正被源源不断的创意所驱动着（这些创意似乎永无止境）。
For the first time, the distance between what I imagined and what I could create has closed.
这一次，我想象中的东西与我实际能够创造出来的东西之间的距离终于被拉近了。
Once AI video was available, I started animating my AI images and making short films.
一旦具备了基于人工智能技术生成的视频资源，我就开始给我的AI图像添加动画效果，并制作一些短片。
But I felt like something was missing.
但我总觉得有些东西缺失了。
So I wanted to make my own music to better match the emotion behind my visuals.
因此，我想自己创作音乐，以便更好地传达我的视觉作品所蕴含的情感。
So I started writing lyrics and using AI to collaborate on the instrumentation.
于是我开始创作歌词，并利用人工智能来协助完成乐器的编配工作。
And I draw my inspiration for my lyrics from my visuals or from my life experiences.
我的歌词灵感来源于我所看到的景象，或是我的生活经历。
And I never thought that my music would take on a life of its own.
我从未想过我的音乐会拥有属于自己的“生命”（即会独立发展、拥有自己的意义和影响力）。
But it has, as I just landed a record deal.
不过，正如我刚才所说，我刚刚签了一份唱片合约。
(Applause and Cheers) Thank you.
（掌声与欢呼声）谢谢大家。
That feels extraordinary at this chapter of my life.
在我人生的这个阶段，这种感觉确实非同寻常。
When the music and the visual align perfectly, it can feel like magic.
当音乐与视觉效果完美地结合在一起时，那种感觉简直就像魔法一样奇妙。
In this next clip I'm going to show you, from my video "Quiet Rebellion",
在接下来的这段视频中，我会向你们展示来自我的视频《无声的反抗》（Quiet Rebellion）中的内容。
I wrote these lyrics about living as your authentic self and wearing your strange like a crown.
我写下这些歌词，是为了表达这样一种生活态度：做真实的自己，将自己那些与众不同的特质当作一种荣耀（或“皇冠”）来珍视。
Let the rhythm be wide and the logic be thin.
让节奏更加自由奔放，让逻辑变得相对简单（或不那么严谨）。
I'm living in the spaces where the secrets begin.
我生活在一个充满秘密的地方——那些秘密刚刚开始被揭示的地方。
It's a quiet rebellion, a soft kind of war.
这是一种无声的反抗，一场“温和”的战争。
There'll be somethin' the world hasn't tasted before.
将会出现某种世界上从未尝过的东西。
There is a fire in the fold, a grace in the strange.
羊圈里着了火；陌生事物中却蕴含着某种美（或：神秘之处）。
I am ink on the page that refuses to change.
我就像是印在纸页上的墨水——永远无法改变。
(Cheers and Applause) Thank you.
（掌声）谢谢大家。
Thank you.
谢谢。
Lately, people have been asking me these same two questions: Is it really art and how do you do it?
最近，人们经常问我这两个问题：这真的算得上艺术吗？你又是如何做到这样的呢？
And this first one's really hard for me to answer, because AI art is brand new,
第一个问题真的很难回答，因为人工智能生成的艺术作品还处于完全崭新的发展阶段。
and we're all still trying to figure out where it fits in.
我们所有人仍在努力弄清楚它在该体系中的位置（或：它属于哪个范畴）。
And there intense feelings on both sides, and lots of discussion about AI being trained on other artists’ work --
双方都怀有强烈的情感；关于“人工智能是否应该通过学习其他艺术家的作品来进行训练”这一问题，也引发了大量的讨论。
as I was as an art major.
因为我主修的是艺术专业。
But when I sit down to create, there's no other artists' work on my screen.
但当我开始创作时，我的屏幕上没有任何其他艺术家的作品。
I use references from things in nature, like flowers or insects, patterns, fashion, or whimsical ideas that have been floating around in my head.
我参考自然界中的各种元素——比如花朵、昆虫的图案，以及时尚界的各种设计灵感；同时也会借鉴那些一直萦绕在我脑海中的奇思妙想。
For me, art is personal.
对我来说，艺术是一种个人化的表达方式。
I just want to make things that bring me joy.
我只是想制作那些能给我带来快乐的东西。
And if they do the same to someone else, well, maybe that's the definition right there.
如果他们也对别人做出同样的事情，那么，也许这就是“虐待”的定义吧。