Cultural Transistor is a platform of scholars, artists and writers, working on the research and development of AI use across Hong Kong’s cultural sector.
Switching
Carrying signal between technical and humanistic registers, so that each side can hear the other.
MoreAmplifying
Tracing what forms when people and machines meet, and amplifying the ideas worth passing on.
MoreAI is good at answering questions. What it will not do is set the question for you: whether the thing is worth doing, who it is for, how it ought to be done.
The value of a humanities training lies in posing and in placing things in context. Less in judging a problem right or wrong, more in judging whether it has been well posed.
When the signal is noisy, Cultural Transistor switches, modulates, and amplifies the ideas worth hearing.