AI and Creativity: Using Generative Models To Make New Things

I'll discuss Magenta, a Google Brain project investigating music and art generation using deep learning and reinforcement learning. I'll describe the goals of Magenta and how it fits into the general trend of AI moving into our daily lives. One crucial question is: Where does AI and Machine Learning fit in the creative process? I'll argue that it's about augmenting and extending the artist rather than just creating artifacts (songs, paintings, etc.) with machines. In the first, we explore the use of recurrent neural networks to extend musical phrases in different ways.