#191: Creative Prompting, Sentient Moon Computers, and Tourists in Excess

This week Ian and Michael wonder what happens to creative arts education when universities start offering degrees in “AI-enhanced creative practice”, and whether learning to prompt a machine really counts as learning to be creative. The conversation then turns to The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, a surprisingly prescient 1960s vision of AI, computers and machine sentience, before arriving at another perennial subject: overtourism and the curious determination to keep attracting ever more visitors to places that are already struggling with the numbers. Along the way, there are the usual digressions. (This description was written with the help of AI)