AI art can make you uneasy about where the future of creative industries is heading. Even knowing where AI is used is far from clear, since a lot of AI-generated art, music, writing, and videos pass deceptively like something a human created. To help you navigate the AI landscape, this article will explain how AI is being used in five different creative industries. As these AI tools become more available, you might find your own creative use for some of the mind-boggling AI software mentioned below. Creating art using AI systems seems impossible to believe until the results appear before your eyes like magic.

Making actors look older or younger has been a eternal challenge for movie studios. It used to be achieved through fairly cumbersome and not always convincing prosthetics and makeup effects. That was then largely replaced by time-consuming digital VFX techniques, but it looks like Disney's come up with a game changer. While publicly accessible AI image generators make an impact on the creative fields, Disney has been working on a studio-quality AI model that can age (and de-age) actors in a way that looks so realistic, it's scary (for more on the use of AI in other creative fields, see how to use DALL-E 2). Making actors look older or younger isn't new. Makeup artist have done some incredible jobs on the likes of David Bowie in The Hunger (1983) and Brad Pitt in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) – the latter had 56 people working in hair and makeup.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering the artistic arena, and it is fundamentally changing creativity and culture as we know it, a UNSW researcher says. Oliver Bown is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interactive Media Lab at the School of Art & Design. He says that as algorithms get smarter, computers will play more of a role in creating music, art, and other cultural artifacts. "While much of the discussion about artificial intelligence centres around automation and labour from an economic perspective, this particular case is in some ways more salient to our lives," A/Prof. "We're cultural beings, and artificial intelligence has the potential to fundamentally impact the way we do culture and the way we might understand ourselves."

As machines become more sophisticated, will artificial intelligence be the evolution or the end of art? Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering the artistic arena, and it is fundamentally changing creativity and culture as we know it, a UNSW researcher says. Oliver Bown is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interactive Media Lab at the School of Art & Design. He says that as algorithms get smarter, computers will play more of a role in creating music, art, and other cultural artifacts. "While much of the discussion about artificial intelligence centres around automation and labour from an economic perspective, this particular case is in some ways more salient to our lives," A/Prof.

How smart is artificial intelligence and how fast is it advancing? In a recent post I mentioned machine learning research that taught an algorithm to master 40-year-old video games. If Atari 1982 video games are the peak of 2020 research, how hard is it to train an algorithm to play Pong, which came out in 1972? Machine learning can master the game in about 250 lines of code. In fact, Pong is one of the most popular ways of teaching reinforcement learning theory and practice.

The game of Go played between a DeepMind computer program and a human champion created an existential crisis of sorts for Marcus du Sautoy, a mathematician and professor at Oxford University. "I've always compared doing mathematics to playing the game of Go," he says, and Go is not supposed to be a game that a computer can easily play because it requires intuition and creativity. So when du Sautoy saw DeepMind's AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, he thought that there had been a sea change in artificial intelligence that would impact other creative realms. He set out to investigate the role that AI can play in helping us understand creativity, and ended up writing The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI (Harvard University Press). The Verge spoke to du Sautoy about different types of creativity, AI helping humans become more creative (instead of replacing them), and the creative fields where artificial intelligence struggles most.

When Hello Games, an independent gaming studio in sleepy Surrey announced to the world that they were building a space exploration video game which would feature more than 18 quintillion unique planets to explore, the gaming press exploded with hype. But when the game was eventually released, it was met with a tsunami of disappointment and criticism. The Grid, an A.I. startup that promised to deliver a fully automated website builder (and a respected rival of my own business, Firedrop), fell into a similar trap as its heady balloon of voracious hype eventually burst as the end product failed to match consumer expectations. Neither product was bad, however (nor are they dead, both have done quite well commercially as far as we know). They were both victims of excessive hype which, as we all know, is a predictable prelude to mass disappointment.

It's become customary to be wowed by computers today. IBM's supercomputer, Watson, beat former Jeopardy! More recently, Google's AlphaGo eclipsed Lee Sedol in a challenge of Go, an ancient board game. These computer systems used artificial intelligence (AI) to outshine humans. While board and game show victories are exciting, they overshadow the practical benefits of AI.