Many people believe that the difference between robots and humans is that they cannot think creatively. However, it turns out that creativity has more than once submitted to machines. This is a proven fact, and in this article you will find several examples proving that modern computers can be creative.
You can drive my car
In September 2016, the interaction of human and artificial intelligence led to the creation of a sprightly pop song that sounded very similar to the melody written by The Beatles in the sixties. While the lyrics were written by a human, the melody originated in the "brain" of the computer. Artificial Intelligence used a system called the Flow Machine to use data from 13,000 lead sheets, or musical notations with elements of pop songs. The result was a song called Daddy's Car.
Dance revolution
Do you like to dance? Inside the domed frame, covered in white cloth, the artificial intelligence recorded and processed the dance moves that humans performed. Then he used these movements on the projection of a virtual dancer, who performed combinations of movements that were deposited in the memory of artificial intelligence after the performances of living people. However, the virtual dancer also tweaked the rhythm or style of the last performer in the dome, making each dance a kind of interaction.
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Blooming dinosaurs
Algorithms can teach AI the basic elements of visual style so that neural networks can use them in original ways to create unique and intriguing works of art. In one example, artificial intelligence created "botanical dinosaurs" - images of Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus and other dinosaurs, using exclusively plants and flowers. This has become a demonstration of a technique called style transfer that uses a particular art style (in this case, botanical illustrations), and then performs specific forms in it, as in this case the bodies of dinosaurs.
Nightmares
Can a computer know what scares you? This computer can. An artificial intelligence project called Nightmare Machines has shown what makes images intimidating. For this, deep learning was used, that is, a system of programs and information structures that form connections like neural ones that are activated in the human brain. The programmers trained artificial intelligence using scary images, teaching it to recognize visual elements that scare people. Then they used artificial intelligence on ordinary photographs to transform them into something terrifying.
Rap hero
The teenager proved that artificial intelligence can be taught to rap the way Kanye West does. All he needed was some open source code and 6,000 lines of West's lyrics. A high school student worked for about a week to program the artificial intelligence, which at first could only swap the lines that the programmer loaded. However, as a result, artificial intelligence "learned" from West's example and began to create its own unique lyrics.
Master Class
An artificial intelligence named "Vincent" is using the skills of fine artists to help human artists. Together, humans and artificial intelligence create digital creations that closely resemble the works of some of the most famous artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vincent's Art School consisted of about eight thousand works of art, from the Renaissance to the works of the twentieth century.
It's Christmas
Can you imagine a computer singing Christmas carols in unison. Artificial intelligence recently composed an original Christmas song after analyzing over a hundred hours of pop music. The programmers assisted the neural network in the process of creating a Christmas carol using what they called "neural vocalization of a story." First, they motivated artificial intelligence to create a descriptive story of a holiday tree surrounded by gifts, and then the computer turned the story into a song.
It was a dark and terrible night
Horror writers create frightening stories that run cold in their veins, and recently a newcomer has appeared among them - a neural network named Shelley. Shelley also produces scary stories using information that people share. This artificial intelligence was named after Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who authored the book Frankenstein. The programmers uploaded 140 thousand horror films to the neural network, which were obtained from the Internet forum, so that it could understand the elements that frighten readers.
A song of bytes and flames
What should Game of Thrones fans do if the last season of the popular TV series doesn't air before 2019, and the series of fantasy novels on which the series is based was last updated with a new book in 2011? If you are a programmer, you can create a neural network that generates five new parts, starting from the moment the last novel ended. First, the neural network learns what was in the existing books, and then uses the obtained data to create new stories using the existing characters.
Author: Marina Ilyushenko