Has Artificial Intelligence Brought Us the Next Great Art Movement? Here Are 9 Artists Who Are Exploring AI's Creative Potential

WHAT: White works with neural networks called Convolutional Neural Networks, or CNNs. These networks are used in today's computer vision applications to give modern machine-learning systems the ability to perceive the world through vision--for example, systems that filter obscene images from your Google search. In his work, White investigates the perceptual abilities of these systems by finding abstract forms that are meaningful to them. Trained on a set of images of real-life objects, the machine creates abstract representational prints until the forms created register as the specific objects, such as a starfish or a cabbage, when they are run through other AI systems to confirm. Some of the results register as "very likely obscene" when they are run through systems trained to filter obscene content, even though they might not register that way to us humans.