Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode 3 – Creative (Artificial) Intelligence
In Creative (Artificial) Intelligence, artist and key researcher Ali Nikrang explores the latest research on artificial intelligence and creativity by asking the question, "Can machines create?". This third episode from the Anniversary Series will be broadcast on June 4 at 6 p.m. on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Futurelab via Ars Electronica Home Delivery. It comments on a controversially discussed hype and examines the methods of creative collaboration between humans and machines.
Ali Nikrang illuminates the creative potential of algorithms and reveals surprising possibilities for constructive collaboration with the user. He explains important basics from the field of artificial intelligence: What A Ghost Dreams Of is an AI that generates deep fakes from images of museum visitors that are indistinguishable from real portraits. The language model GPT-2 (OpenAI) also uses the creativity of an artificial intelligence to create text with credible content.
However, using his AI-based music composition system Ricercar, the MuseNet composition Mahler Unfinished, and Sounding Letters – an AI that translates letters into a musical composition – Ali Nikrang demonstrates that it is still human creativity that differentiates analog from digitally generated work.
Photo:
Denise Hirtenfelder
Credits:
What a ghost dreams of – h.o.
AI System: John Brumley
Surveillance Application: Hiroshi Chigira
Technical Direction: Hiroshi Chigira, John Brumley, Taizo Zushi
Art Direction, Concept: Hideaki Ogawa, John Brumley, Hiroshi
Chigira, Emiko Ogawa, Taizo Zushi
Eye Blinks Editing / Directing: Martina Sochor
Eye Blinks Cinematography: Jonatan Salgado Romero
Eye Blinks Model: Andressa Miyazato
Photography: Florian Voggeneder
Face Photo Booth: Ali Nikrang
This project utilizes the AI algorithm StyleGAN (Karras et al. 2018)
About h.o: www.howeb.org/about
ars.electronica.art/center/de/what-a-ghost-dreams-of/
GPT-2: Sprachfelder
Ars Electronica Futurelab: Florian Berger, Ali Nikrang
GPT-2 (Alec Radford et al. 2019)
Mahler-Unfinished
Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra Linz, principal conductor: Markus Poschner
Artificial Intelligence: MuseNet by OpenAI, Christine M. Payne
Ars Electronica Futurelab: Ali Nikrang, Peter Freudling, Stefan Mittlböck, Roland Aigner
Live Visualizations: Akiko Nakayama
ars.electronica.art/futurelab/de/projects-mahler-unfinished/
Ricercar & Sounding Letters
Ali Nikrang
Inside Futurelab: 25th Anniversary Series – Episode 3 – Creative (Artificial) Intelligence
In Creative (Artificial) Intelligence, artist and key researcher Ali Nikrang explores the latest research on artificial intelligence and creativity by asking the question, "Can machines create?". This third episode from the Anniversary Series will be broadcast on June 4 at 6 p.m. on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Ars Electronica Futurelab via Ars Electronica Home Delivery. It comments on a controversially discussed hype and examines the methods of creative collaboration between humans and machines.
Ali Nikrang illuminates the creative potential of algorithms and reveals surprising possibilities for constructive collaboration with the user. He explains important basics from the field of artificial intelligence: What A Ghost Dreams Of is an AI that generates deep fakes from images of museum visitors that are indistinguishable from real portraits. The language model GPT-2 (OpenAI) also uses the creativity of an artificial intelligence to create text with credible content.
However, using his AI-based music composition system Ricercar, the MuseNet composition Mahler Unfinished, and Sounding Letters – an AI that translates letters into a musical composition – Ali Nikrang demonstrates that it is still human creativity that differentiates analog from digitally generated work.
Photo:
Denise Hirtenfelder
Credits:
What a ghost dreams of – h.o.
AI System: John Brumley
Surveillance Application: Hiroshi Chigira
Technical Direction: Hiroshi Chigira, John Brumley, Taizo Zushi
Art Direction, Concept: Hideaki Ogawa, John Brumley, Hiroshi
Chigira, Emiko Ogawa, Taizo Zushi
Eye Blinks Editing / Directing: Martina Sochor
Eye Blinks Cinematography: Jonatan Salgado Romero
Eye Blinks Model: Andressa Miyazato
Photography: Florian Voggeneder
Face Photo Booth: Ali Nikrang
This project utilizes the AI algorithm StyleGAN (Karras et al. 2018)
About h.o: www.howeb.org/about
ars.electronica.art/center/de/what-a-ghost-dreams-of/
GPT-2: Sprachfelder
Ars Electronica Futurelab: Florian Berger, Ali Nikrang
GPT-2 (Alec Radford et al. 2019)
Mahler-Unfinished
Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra Linz, principal conductor: Markus Poschner
Artificial Intelligence: MuseNet by OpenAI, Christine M. Payne
Ars Electronica Futurelab: Ali Nikrang, Peter Freudling, Stefan Mittlböck, Roland Aigner
Live Visualizations: Akiko Nakayama
ars.electronica.art/futurelab/de/projects-mahler-unfinished/
Ricercar & Sounding Letters
Ali Nikrang