artifical-intelligence-and-creativity-imagining-the-unimaginable

How artificial intelligence can be used creatively is an often asked, and perpetually unsolved, question. Of course, the term "AI" itself can be somewhat misleading; serving, as it does, as a catch-all phrase for anything involving machine learning and/or algorithms. What is possible, however, is to explore in general terms what levels of creativity we can currently see from the people and technology working in this space. Beginning with the most publicised stories, we have IBM's lighthouse project Watson, which created a movie trailer for the film "Morgan", (a film about an artificially intelligent robot child – spoiler alert: it doesn't go well), and Sony using a system of machine learning algorithms called "Flow Machines" to compose a pop song, ("Daddy's Car"). Further back, we also had Oscar Sharp and Ross Goodwin put a recurrent neural network to work writing a screenplay for a film called "Sunspring", which they subsequently shot in a single day, (it is a must-watch).