“If generative AI has done anything, it has freed the computer scientist and the GPU to calculate other trajectories—statistical, behavioral, speculative—far removed from the old cosmology of light.”
– British CGI artist and media theorist
Al Warburton, on how generative AI offers “luxury photorealism without the virtual photons or pretense of accuracy.” In his
Outland column, Warburton argues that “this new way of rendering complex phenomena dissolves the libidinal contract that bound generations of computer scientists (and their Renaissance precursors) to the project of optical exactitude.”
