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now and stood guard posted minus in the bundle sleek as friday night match the home team wore rainbow striped jerseys in support of diversity on and off the pitch it took stood guard 55 minutes to get on the scoreboard sasha took the centering past 2 headed in jakarta went on to win 2 nil. europe to date now on the deadly news omarion evans team from me and the entire team in berlin and thanks for the company. can you hear me now oh yes we can hear you and how the last years german software will bring you i'm going to mantle and you never have to surprise yourself with what is possible who is magical really what moves and want also to talk to people who follow along the way maurice and critics alike join us from eccles last
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thoughts. amsterdam's rights museum is home to the nightwatch rembrandt's most famous painting. researchers are gathering data that will be fed into an ai machine learning algorithm. how did rembrandt create this extraordinary work. could there be a computer system at the heart of such masterpieces. could there be a code for what we call our.
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deal with all time to one pack. in his berlin studio the artist foreman lipski shows us how the dialogue between him and his music began 3 years ago. lipski paints and a computer answers in a i muse who knows precisely how he works. and it's one. of the best but this was the starting point if i wanted to paint this image i took the motif and painted it 9 times.
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from the top left to the bottom right. and what i did was digitalize the images including all the interim phase and. then i sand florian a file of about 50 images of the digital photographs of. them so that he had information on the algorithm or. how the algorithm works based on looks these images the air i system has learned to replicate the artist's style. the system can now turn whatever data it is fed with into a lipski painting. thing that i'm looking at what the individual networks have generated. how they alter the
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original picture or. with that i'm trying to create an optimal image. and. an image i can use as the basis for a painting on a campus. this is. basically it's like an ultramodern sketch. one of those as that's the software on these it's in the larger basically our music is a type of software. these so-called neural network we use i think very specific architecture a machine learning system is capable of analyzing roman lipski paintings distilling facets from them deconstructing them and then constructing something new and generating hundreds of thousands of variations. so. he does his theme of here you can see how the system interpreted this section on the right has
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a lake so added blue that it. or it's the only image generated that has that feature. so that really fires up rumor inspires him to take it to the next level and pick up on certain details of. the ai is incredibly fast but roman once said to me that what's exciting is that the speediness allows him to take his time and. never paints exactly what the artificial muse proposes it simply points him in a direction gives him an idea a spark a stimulus. in the last few years all he has to do when he's seeking inspiration is plug in his computer. the arrival of the artificial music his life helped him out of a profound creative crisis. this is only for the. this here is
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a later work. in my work used to be representation of i was trapped in a patent pub at some point i started thinking more about abstract painting the. book. but none of my attempts worked out i just wasn't coming up with anything better than me and i ended up with a creative crisis and. i was wracked by doubt. unsure if my art was what i should be doing. i'm still alive and there have been plenty of artists who killed themselves as and this is seriously these doubts can be overwhelming when you start to question your very existence.
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it's not. existence in for. first of course. why do human beings create art. where does the impulse come from. an impulse strong enough to dispel overwhelming feelings of despair self-doubt. mozart's requiem is about mortality. shakespeare explores the concepts of love power and jealousy. turning to anthropologists the earliest expressions of human creativity date back some 40000 years. modern homo sapiens developed a new kind of self-awareness and began to find ways to project thought and feeling onto the world around them. and i think our artistic and creative works are an attempt to actually sober
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scientific problem which is the whole problem of consciousness that i can't know what it feels like to be you and you can't know what it feels like to be me but our creativity is somehow our op best way of trying to share that world in our art is almost the best m.r.i. scanner to see what it is like to be another human being. hey siri how can i help you isn't the sunrise magical summarizes the moment when the upper limb of the sun on the horizon in the morning the turn can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon. rembrandt was renowned for his ability to portray deep human feelings and challenge the conventions of the self portrait. is it possible to replicate his genius. that's a question explored in a privately financed project called the next rembrandt. here data scientists an
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artist or even set out to create a rembrandt painting using artificial intelligence. only for teen wolf we supplied the surface data of rembrandt's work we scanned some of his later works and were able to provide a dataset of their surface structure. as that. it isn't you can switch the issue that was very important in terms of ensuring his brush stroke was convincingly replicated in the new virtual rembrandt. which jim. de mint is against and. when we trained the algorithm with this dataset we were able to calculate chemical resemblances the machine could then identify places in the body of work where the paint had been similarly mixed in the palette of any commission. computer of wood or stone in beautiful links in
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you know what we have on the left here is a chemical map of the painting depicting the various palette mixes used in rembrandt's workshop. and on the right we can see where these colors were used in the paintings for sheen and. in beards. we took parts of the face and we started to compare them and based on this were able to create a typical around i love henri. after generating the features we were focusing on the face proportions muse an algorithm that can be. over 60 points in a painting we were able to align the faces and estimates the distance between the eyes the nose of the mole on the ears. the painting is not a tutti picture it's treaty you can see the counters you can see the process and
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that's what makes the painting come on a high school i was essential to make the painting a painting. we incorporate that the hype into the paint that i'm praying to on the train the print there that uses a special paint base you reading it printed many layers one on top of the other has resulted in the hype and texture of the final paint. surely only rembrandt could create a rembrandt. yet this rembrandt was created by a machine. so what is it. imitation. or is it art.
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too much money to move from people are always asking will artificial intelligence be more intelligent than human intelligence i always say have you ever used a pocket calculator even if that is way more intelligent than you are so it's nothing the idea that certain technological systems that simulate intelligence can outperform humans but also from us to conclude from that that a pocket calculator is a being that is aware of what it's doing and that is irrational i think you'll end east really see computers being creative in code being creative not not just being a tool for our own creativity. when they have their own internal worlds now that's probably a long way down the lawyer but i don't think it's impossible that a computer will become so complex that it will actually start to feel things and actually have a sense of self. shunts
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is by how they should defer. tronic computer conference in the process i was saying i'm not as rigid as you think. they are as electronic a center and. also known as the museum of the future. artists and its future lab are experimenting with algorithmic composition an area of research recently revolutionized by a neural network called music. trained with music ranging from beethoven to the gaga it can create compositions without having any understanding of the music. simply by recognizing patterns and predicting the next step in a sequence. here it's creating a composition in the style of mozart with a little bit of thrown in. there
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with deep learning models neural networks you don't set any rules and down to the machine learns by itself which data works best and that's it's fascinating that it doesn't have to think about musical structures such as consonants or dissonance with the machine learns completely independently and. more than any other artistic form musical composition is governed by rules. but throughout history scientists have wondered does all art in fact follow rules. even art that elicits an emotional response. this is so even coming in that this is
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not there and that music is thought the national. health island is the that the. the i cannot it. up to a steep rocky old money these are their mothers in that it would have been the visa there was it. is their good luck these if i get the message is there. september $21000.00 world premiere at the ars electronica festival. the i'm trying to structure is performing mahler unfinished a piece of music made by man and machine. the ai system usenet has completed the unfinished movements of christophe monist 10th symphony. as if the next one of you saw figure we could be free to look for stuff from other usually not to do for free 1st the ai system was founded with the complete works of course stuff mahler so the
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dataset contains every fragment of mahler's sounds but as well as other music from the late romantic era of them before. then it was given a theme for a 5 minute composition written this does build a famous theme in the 1st movement. yes and so this. is why there was then the leo now comes saying. this work mahler grieves for his wife. spelling her initials within the notes of the fi a and e. flat for the german. impact on the. machine until this is exactly the same news now it was given closer than it was able to make its own decisions based on face vast data set it was trying to way
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before and they composed a piece of music something completely new companion it's a mission unto him. is this model form usenet. it's music. the music is that it's these chords with a sudden i thought my music is a really good in my opinion or you can identify the theme and then recurring elements from the theme it with a very skillfully developed by the ai model. and you can tell how the game has been deconstructed we had a look at that i was certain sequences have been given prominent is the right hand how the piece progresses from a gentle pianissimo to a powerful 4 t.c. model in the space of just a few minutes emotion was enough and up on the. technically
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it sounds like mama. but does the music convey a story an intention. whose voice is it worth are we hearing. that means i mean blamed for some hombres or not instead of voting for months on victory if we did a blind tast just if we knew nothing about how these beasts. being composed given its machine made often lame games then would probably be taken in kind if i were in a wrong note say that here's to the rules of voice leading there are intriguing hominids. in technical terms it's astonishing that the question
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remains what does it mean when nixon puncture the don't it is going to. die off i can't answer that because it basically the answer is that it means nothing. as opposed as in his view what's the point and that's the problem when we hear something they immediately searches of a meaning or enables a name for emotional content in which where does it get us and it gets us nowhere it's a simulations newsgroup and this is an issue not shown. ai uses mathematics and logic to produce results that are astoundingly similar to our . it suggests that the processes involved in making art are actually quite predictable. but predictability is surely the opposite of creativity. which
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is about finding novelty and different perspectives exploring uncharted territory. innovating. so what you see here is the movements i just recorded and now this is a continuation of my movements in the style of for the. company so in this case you can see here denny. just that if you look at the story each time there is a new innovation some artist and dress it and make new art with it and i'm the dry person for that but if you ask the artist around this i was surprised that to see oh many artists were really excited by these technologies and he wanted
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to understand them wanted to see this kind of think that if you can improve their own. paris home to the headquarters of google arts and culture the tech giants nonprofit creative playground. artists are invited to come and experiment here with new algorithms. for now it's all just a bit of fun hardly world changing. first you have to approach any nature. and. there i will it starts at the 2nd bass of the tool which is about on the ring at the back there. the butterfly in the background merge into an infinite pattern a synthesis of form shape and color. the computer hasn't been told what to do. this is all it's own imagination.
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the images that this tool makes can visualize a potential of an object and its correlation with its background so it's not just that background cut and paste image but it's just much more recursive and in it for some like it looks like my work. i always created from instinct and there when i was sitting at the table at google it's just i felt like everything i ever that brought me to that table and helped me to understand what i have been doing. our rhythm has no visual ability.
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it turns images and impulses and impulses and images. no human being could ever devise these infinite variations. all people are demi doc has to do is select the images she likes best and build upon them i think there is a very big misunderstanding in the role of why humans are born in a sense i do believe that we are born to transcend we are born to be creative we are born to to dream we are born to seeing where i'm. born to make where we are not born to stand or we're not born to execute robotic tasks so i do believe that ai machine will take away all the pragmatic repetitive dirty dangerous boring part of our creativity so that we can just be visionaries. the
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invention of the telescope changed the way humans saw the world. ai could be a similar game changer. maju cleaner mine is an internationally celebrated digital artist. he's fascinated by the virtual worlds of algorithms generate. they are throws the doors of perception wide open. and one of the things one sees an algorithm takes $128.00 dimensions and breaks them down to. you know way it allows us to visualize a world that isn't visible to. algorithm creates a virtual map out of all of the works of art google's data bank. but what about the gray areas between the artworks. uses the generative adversarial network again a powerful class of neural networks to visualize how the computer sees that.
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it gets. what about here. and it looks like there are no images in the database that. so another model had to be found one that doesn't sort data but it generates data and that model could try to give us an idea of what it thinks is there. busts the day the globe stays as a it know how debit is something exists within the world of these models and if i use again i could generate this image and possibly it would be something we recognized would be that often but 2nd. while the human brain has limitations the computer brain can turn chaos into order. the way it selects in structures is astonishing inspiring. it goes against all
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human understanding of. his innocence so. we see here are i suppose the creatures from the in-between areas in solution of all the. different they have elements of plants insects animals. to go in does this feel like the machine doesn't recognise categories such as humans animal plant which is very interesting right it is mentally does is tear this flounces of the sand and takes 2 and it's exam is it so these are merely textures that have been put together. and we could say this is more insect like except for its eyes. and now it's more like a blowfish. a cooler a fish. the eyes
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a slightly weasely rodent like it or not appear to be very fluid in a non-spatial that's what's fascinating us. as the dimension that is alice alice and humans have a very pronounced spatial awareness and that's fine because we humans like clear definitions but we like to pigeonhole and sort everything into groups belongs here it doesn't belong there with the decor but to do. this is that even with art there are clear definitions to be she's obviously she isn't but in fact there are these gray areas where everything is in flux. volatile 402 are. in the infinite data kos-mos that is ai everything is possible just as the telescope did when it was invented over 400 years ago it could change our view of the universe and our view of ourselves.
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but where does that leave artists. clean up mind can instruct the computer to produce a brand new particle. the algorithms generate results on an endless loop. memories of passers by is a machine that i created that will keep. generating portraits of them on existing people. for ever.
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i think one of the reasons that we're created as humans is because we want to leave something behind because we realize our own mortality and you know if you create a piece of music or a painting or in my case a piece of mathematics you know i do feel that that will outlast me and may help to extend. my own consciousness beyond you know my death
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consciousness allows you to do mental time travel you can see yourself in the future and that involves seeing yourself and your own death. i. told the story very serious can you read me a poll out of some on the. on the run just want in a tremulous night sustenance and if it's this life you love keeps me busy diva bring. the love keeps me busy here light hearted longing golden limbs wild blood secret depths your heavenly charm your evanescence source inspires
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me you healing creature chased the soul life peacey. they had screens is a lie and could be depending on someone sends you such a poem and asks you what you think of us too and what do you do money stand as you are did you sleep on it about. how one penned by. algorithm fed with good turns and schiller. extraordinarily authentic sounding. project developed by the digital creative agency tunnel 23 vienna. how did i feel well it was quite a shock let me tell you the shock. how going to machine write a poem and get dish doesn't stand above that at home that made it into the brentano company's poetry anthologies indian to look it up and turn over there.
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we look at each other we exchange dark words. we love each other like poppy and recollection. lines written by a flesh and blood poet powered taillight. words that evoke even more than the sum of their parts. a i could imitate ceylon recognize patterns predict the next line. but with the effect be the same decide to virus in mind we had one till now we knew that art was created by humans or they lived 10000 years ago or were still alive today that incident about now you might read something that moves you that perhaps even brings tears to your eyes and tell it isn't the work of a human is if leisel got some violent thing less than one 3rd if there's an interest in a bad poem even though it puts you in touch with your sadness is done is done oh i know the gig now mitzi said. input
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output. perhaps as many scientist say humans are simply highly sophisticated machines so sophisticated that they have developed self-consciousness can ponder their own existence. yet the self remains one of the greatest mysteries of science i think therefore i am. for centuries deckard statement was the cornerstone of western philosophy. but many brain researchers nowadays argue that the sense of self is merely an illusion. justice but in talking to the city it's impressive how much this argument has developed but it doesn't alter the fact that we are beings that know very well what it means to have consciousness was a perceived colorado but still experience of feelings such as sadness to all we don't need science or psychology to tell us what it means to feel sadness to be and
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was a size 12 says. sadness is described in binary code as 30 wants and 26 zeros. to human beings could have a long conversation about what sadness means. but for a machine meaning semantics is not a factor it has no consciousness. semantics is the holy grail of ai research. term. here. hungry man reach for the book it is a weapon said bet one question. these days with tens of thousands of new books
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published every year. a book is also a commercial product. publishing houses mean best sellers bam they are can help find the. algorithm can calculate a best seller. status list cyclist midgets down the technique mr consistent against nuclear stuff i thought it must be possible to use tech and artificial intelligence to identify patterns and books and bestsellers and apply the findings to new works and it's called batman she lived just can't figure out for example what your target audience is and what kind of razor sharp a book we'll have that we're currently there are 9 top machine houses in germany he was in the program including some of the big ones but we've signed confidentiality agreements because they don't want to be named using that as a kind of program doesn't make any judgment that it doesn't distinguish between good or bad literature we don't think in those categories everything has validity but for publishers and writers it's also important that it has commercial potential
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and we need to see if it will find readers or if we want to deliberately pitch it at a nice idea and initiatives and much to. the program is put to the test with a manuscript that talk the bestseller lists. its work but the manuscript is uploaded on supply just the software reads it and analyzes it says buttons on a seal. beach algorithm analyzes factors such as language plot subject suspense and even emotional contact didn't send it what it was the machine was trained to recognise a positive sentence for example i was walking along the street the sun was shining and i was happy that's a positive sense of people's thoughts but it was also trying to recognise a sense expressing negative content and i was absolutely miserable and everything seemed hopeless swofford an orphan. it's interesting even
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so here are the results yes it's see what it tells us is that this is a novel with a stick it has elements of a thriller suspense crime thriller so it contains excitements of us which i'm rich but i mean. i. was in school for. its course 81 percent that's very good decent men to watch on its own because she disliked him in other words readers in this market segment of crime fiction suspense novels will enjoy this book immensely. that's ok it's kind of all of 5 balls pos. a computer can type the whole all victorian literature and you know assimilate it in and off to new and start to see interesting new connections between those which will then help us to
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be guided through this you know immense library of literature that we just. hope to to navigate on our own as human. i. should say 650. strong feelings not just love but sadness relationships be tend to be read more by women. the average reader is a woman over $35.00. the book cover is more important than you might think. men
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often give up after 20 pages women after 50. these are the sort of things that can draw on back notes. he works for publishers testing ebooks out 130-2700 readers figuring out what and how quickly people read as well as when and for how long. we look at a manuscript like a black box if we don't know what's in it we're only gauging reader response. we collected data on how readers react to the problem is that it takes time it sometimes takes 2 to 3 weeks to gather enough data whereas an algorithm trained with bestseller lists takes about 10 minutes. but what makes a bestseller is not just the actual book but also the cover the blurb designed to many factors. so the algorithm hasn't been trained with all the information it
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needs and anyway writers can't write according to a formula tastes are changing all the time for the advantage when you see how people are reading as i do is that you can factor all that in and if an algorithm is only trained with data from the last 10 years for then that's the only time frame you're working with a common is to say you can't predict how a trend might evolve in trend. it developed at the technical university and constance is a robot that can paint. a machine that lacks consciousness. it won't paint until it switched on ready. if it did have consciousness it might use art as a means of communication. and there we have it. even an
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algorithm that can self program itself has no curiosity or interest in learning about the world. 'd looking for meaning in what it generates is futile. for now and for the forseeable future only human beings look for meaning seek ways to express themselves. in ai will remain only a tool towards this and. i see beauty in an eye i see beauty in the sheen because i see it as a natural next step in the progress of humanity if it's used well and so my work i want to make people see and feel the beauty that i seen and so it's done wit. radical positivity as mommy it's going to i'm not worried that software and machine learning and digitalization are going to result in a faulty mechanized world is to build for you on the contrary we'll have
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a greater appreciation for everything that software can't replace is the use of business to move for. a. long ways the last one. this one's cold. front as i always look forward to the next image the next to be generative ganju name blur. the. fear of losing. love you ferdinand birth plan to move to the earth are going to show.
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