AI & ART

Machine are getting very smart. They can see, hear and even draw. What does this mean for jobs? What does this mean for programmatic media? What does this mean for art?

See the full talk here,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vb-NI9sKE&t=60s

Transcript

1. WATCH THE VIDEO PRESENTATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vb-NI9sKE&t=59s
2. MACHINES ARE GETTING GOOD AT SEEING STUFF
3. WE HAVE EVEN STARTED GETTING THEM TO PAINT The Next Rembrandt: https://www.nextrembrandt.com They do a convincing job….
4. AI OR ART?
5. AI BASED ON RAIN PRINCESS, BY AFREMOV Rain Princess, by Afremov AI
6. WHICH LINE IS LONGER?
7. WHICH LINE IS LONGER?
8. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME LENGTH Obviously…
9. DID YOU KNOW YOU WILL BE BETTER AT THESE ILLUSIONS DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU GREW UP… our vision is learnt…
10. SOME EXSPERIMENTS ON CATS HELPED DEMONSTRATE THIS FURTHER… https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PM C1307838/pdf/jphysiol00822-0028.pdf http://knowingneurons.com/2014/10/29/hube l-and-wiesel-the-neural-basis-of-visual- perception/
11. THEY DISCOVERED THAT VISION WORKS IN A HIERARCHY
12. WE CAN NOW REPLICATE THIS ON A COMPUTER
13. IT’S THE SAME TECHNOLOGY WE ARE SO FAMILIAR WITH
14. NOW LET OUR ALGORITHM STARE AT THE CLOUDS FOR A MINUTE
15. WE CAN THEN VISUALISE WHAT THEY SEE… https://research.googleblog.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html
16. WE CAN DO THIS WITH ANY IMAGE
17. WE CAN DO THIS WITH ANY IMAGE
18. WE CAN DO THIS WITH ANY IMAGE
19. AND EVEN TO VIDEOS…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPaCWJL7XI
20. WE CAN EVEN DO A SIMILAR THING WITH PAINTINGS….
21. WE CAN EVEN DO A SIMILAR THING WITH PAINTINGS….
22. IT’S CALLED STYLE TRANSFER
23. IT’S CALLED STYLE TRANSFER
24. I SHARED SOME CODE ON GITHUB https://github.com/RJBrooker/Style-Transfer-Example
25. IT CAN EVEN BE GENERALISED TO TEXT…
26. IT CAN EVEN BE GENERALISED TO TEXT…
27. AND MUSIC….
28. FOR THE FULL PRESENTATION -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vb-NI9sKE&t=60s