The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI

The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversial aspects of AI: artificial creativity. The adoption of technology and machinery has long transformed the world, but as the potential for artificial intelligence expands, David Hajdu examines the new, increasingly urgent questions about technology's role in culture.



Hajdu traces the fascinating, varied ways in which inventors and artists have sought to emulate mental proc...