The Future of Intelligence, Part 2, with Kevin B. Lee and Andrea Rizzoli

Published: Aug. 22, 2023, 8:30 p.m.

b'At this year\\u2019s Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Film Comment participated in a fascinating experimental event called \\u201cA Long Night of Dreaming about the Future of Intelligence.\\u201d Curated by Rafael Dernbach in collaboration with the Universit\\xe0 della Svizzera italiana and Locarno Film Festival BaseCamp, the event began at sunset on August 9 and ended at sunrise on August 10, and involved a series of talks and workshops about the many connotations of \\u201cintelligence,\\u201d how A.I. is changing our relationships to ourselves and the world, and how dreams may offer up keys to our future. \\n\\nThe event was co-hosted by Film Comment Co-Deputy Editor Devika Girish. This week\\u2019s episode is an excerpt from her moderating shift, featuring a conversation with A.I. scholar Andrea Rizzoli and critic Kevin B. Lee, Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts, about the history of artificial intelligence, and its limitations and possibilities vis-\\xe0-vis art. Check out last week\\u2019s episode for another excerpt from \\u201cA Long of Dreaming About the Future of Intelligence,\\u201d featuring Stanford University scholar Shane Denson on the brave new world of \\u201cpost-cinema.\\u201d'