Google setting up 'Magenta' group to develop more creative AI capable of producing its own original art works

Google Brain, the search giant's machine learning arm, is setting up a new group to see if it can teach AI to make its own, original works of art. The company, named Magenta, will be announced more officially at the beginning of June, but was referenced to in a talk given by Douglas Eck, a Google Brain researcher, at Moogfest. This new group has been founded specifically to find out if computers can actually create their own works of art. Whether that be more traditional pictures, videos or even music, Magenta wants to find out if it's possible. The aim may sound familiar to other Google Brain projects, but its direction is completely different.