HOW CAN COMPUTERS BE CREATIVE?
Computer scientists and programmers, along with artists and and psychologists have been working to simulate human-level creativity using a computer. This is known as computational creativity. The goal is to have computers that can work alongside artists to produce poetry, music, visual arts, and other works of creativity.
WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS?
IBM recently used its supercomputer, Watson, to create a trailer for the new sci-fi/horror film entitled Morgan. This was the first trailer to be created entirely by artificial intelligence. In order to create the trailer, Watson analyzed the film in order to identify key moments of plot action, and was fed a hundred horror film trailers in order to create a similar trailer. (The trailer is shown below!) The trailer created by Watson did succeed in matching similarity to other horror/sci-fi trailers, however, there is not a clear understanding of the story-line, and it's not as sophisticated other human-made clips. Google researchers are also hoping to find whether artificial intelligence can be trained to create music and Microsoft has been working on creating artificial intelligence that can create paintings and other artwork.
IS THIS REALLY ART?
Although no computers have been able to create these works without some human assistance, there has already been controversy as to whether works produced by computers can really be considered art. This is due to the belief that art should be a solely human experience, and that scientists are attempting to make art into a series of algorithms.
HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO COMPUTER SCIENCE?
The computers that have been used to create works of art have been programmed with background information on similar works created by humans, and use algorithms to determine the best next step for the artwork.
Information and pictures from:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-supercomputer-world-ai-created-trailer.html
http://www.newsweek.com/can-artificially-intelligent-computer-make-art-462847
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_creativity
The other day in my sociology class we talked about Artificial Intelligence and how creativity is a huge part of a computer being intelligent, though very difficult to achieve. Do you think computers will ever be able to be creative without some form of human assistance? Or on the topic of art, do you think that computer generated art could become a whole new genre of art in general? Cool article!
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