AI-Powered Creativity Tools Are Now Easier Than Ever For Anyone to Use

The latest addition to this growing array is a platform called Runway ML, which hosts dozens of AI-based creative functions ranging from utilitarian tasks to experimental works-in-progress and whimsical novelties. The hub draws together a range of recent breakthroughs that have transformed the creative capacity of AI, including research group OpenAI's text generator, GPT-2, new methods of image fabrication and an Nvidia web tool that turns doodles into photorealistic landscapes. "We are on the verge of a new creative revolution," Runway ML's mission statement says. "Recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence research are producing radical changes in the way digital content is made, understood and processed, unfastening previously unimagined ways of creating." The key innovation driving much of this progress is a machine-learning model called a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), in which a neural network generates images by honing them until another neural network can no longer tell the difference between the fake images and the real ones of the data set.