Art
Give This AI A Few Words Of Description And It Produces A Stunning Image – But Is It Art?
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but thanks to an artificial intelligence program called DALL-E 2, you can have a professional-looking image with far fewer. DALL-E 2 is a new neural network algorithm that creates a picture from a short phrase or sentence that you provide. The program, which was announced by the …
AI Should Augment Human Creativity, Not Replace It
It works best when used as an extension and a tool to bolster our creativity. Human creativity comes from a variety of internal and external sources. We instinctively piece them together with the different experiences from our lives to produce unique and unpredictable results. But it cannot be replicated, and there isn’t a predefined formula …
There Is No Difference Between Computer Art And Human Art
In December 1964, over a single evening session in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, John Coltrane and his quartet recorded the entirety of A Love Supreme. This jazz album is considered Coltrane’s masterpiece – the culmination of his spiritual awakening – and sold a million copies. What it represents is all too human: a climb out …
AI Is Different Because It Lets Machines Weld The Emotional With The Physical
The human race has long designed and used tools to help us solve problems, from flint axes to space shuttles. They affect our lives and shape society in expected and sometimes unexpected ways. We may understand how these tools work – after all, we built them – but sometimes it’s the use they’re put to …
If Machines Want To Make Art, Will Humans Understand It?
Assuming that the emergence of consciousness in artificial minds is possible, those minds will feel the urge to create art. But will we be able to understand it? To answer this question, we need to consider two subquestions: when does the machine become an author of an artwork? And how can we form an understanding …
Google I/O 2019 | Music and Machine Learning
Google I/O 2019 | Music and Machine Learning New technologies have fundamentally changed the way we make and experience music. In this session Claire Evans, artist, author and one half of the pop duo YACHT talks about deep learning as a tool in their creative process. Their new album explores Google AI’s research project, Magenta, …
Google I/O 2019 | Making Art with Artificial Intelligence: Artists in Conversation
Google I/O 2019 | Making Art with Artificial Intelligence: Artists in Conversation This session will explore new forms of visual art made possible by machine learning, from collaboration with robots to machine models of nature. Hear from some of the artists exhibiting their work on The Boardwalk at I/O as part of I/O Arts. This …