SEEKING THE DREAM OF THE MYTHICAL WORLD IN THE MODERN WORLD: THE DESIRE FOR THE IDEAL WOMAN FROM THE SCULPTURE GALATEA TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FEMALE MODELS SEREN AY AND ASENA İLİK Cover Image

MİTİK DÜNYANIN DÜŞÜNÜ MODERN DÜNYADA ARAMAK: HEYKEL GALATEA’DAN YAPAY ZEKÂ KADIN MODELLERİ SEREN AY VE ASENA İLİK’E UZANAN İDEAL KADIN ARZUSU
SEEKING THE DREAM OF THE MYTHICAL WORLD IN THE MODERN WORLD: THE DESIRE FOR THE IDEAL WOMAN FROM THE SCULPTURE GALATEA TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FEMALE MODELS SEREN AY AND ASENA İLİK

Author(s): Tuğçe Erdal
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Media studies, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Pygmalion myth; artificial intelligence; Turkish mythology; social media; beauty perception;

Summary/Abstract: Artificial intelligence is a technological concept that has recently been frequently heard in many areas of life, including the digital world, national media, social media platforms, daily life and science. In addition to responding to many needs, artificial intelligence is seen to be inadequate especially in areas involving emotions and feelings, but experts are trying to overcome these inadequacies. For this reason, artificial intelligence has both the mental and emotional intelligence of human beings created by human hands, as well as the effort to create the ideal with its beauty. This effort is revealed in a sculpture, which also exists in the ancient world and is driven by the desire to “create” the most beautiful. In the Pygmalion narrative, a mythological narrative, a sculptor who falls in love with a female sculpture he created, is confronted with the revival of the sculpture as a result of the acceptance of his prayer for the revival of the ideal woman he named Galaeta. The subject of this study is the examination of different artificial intelligence “ideal woman types” that we encounter as an extension of this narrative in the modern period. The differences and similarities in the process of idealizing concepts such as ideal woman, beauty and love by an entity other than the Creator and the common and different aspects of the purpose of creation will be determined in the article. In particular, the posts of women who are defined as influencers created with artificial intelligence on social media and whose professions are described as modeling, and even the artificial intelligence female beauty contest between female models created with artificial intelligence will be included in the field of examination of this article. The study aims to show that the process, purpose and result of Pygmalion's creation of Galatea and the process, purpose and result of the designers' creation of female artificial intelligence models in the modern age with the names Seren Ay and Asena İlik overlap with each other.

  • Issue Year: 17/2024
  • Issue No: Sp. Issue
  • Page Range: 169-186
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish
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