How AI can help supercharge creativity

The audience watched, heads nodding, as Wilson tapped out code line by line on the projected screen--tweaking sounds, looping beats, pulling a face when she messed up. Wilson is a live coder. Instead of using purpose-built software like most electronic music producers, live coders create music by writing the code to generate it on the fly. It's an improvised performance art known as algorave. "It's kind of boring when you go to watch a show and someone's just sitting there on their laptop," she says.