From our listeners: can AI understand beauty?

来自我们的听众:人工智能能理解美吗?

Round Table China

2026-09-28

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Have you ever cried at a song whose words you never understood? That wordless pull toward beauty feels deeply human, yet AI now writes poetry, scores films, and paints portraits that move people to tears. So does it truly feel beauty, or simply mimic everything we've always called beautiful? On the show: Steve, Yushan & Yushun
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  • I'm Steve Hatherly today with Yushan and Yushin.

  • Coming up, have you ever cried at a song when you didn't even understand the words?

  • That wordless pull toward beauty is deeply human.

  • Or is it?

  • AI writes poetry and scores films and paints portraits that move people to tears.

  • But is it feeling beauty?

  • Or is it just mimicking what we've always called beautiful?

  • We went looking for answers in the brain and aesthetics

  • and that blurry line between sensing beauty and truly knowing what it is.

  • And that's coming up on our special hybrid edition of Heart to Heart.

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