{"id":4793,"date":"2016-12-06T23:59:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2016-12-06T23:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T07:59:07","slug":"demo-how-computers-are-learning-to-be-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/demo-how-computers-are-learning-to-be-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Demo: How computers are learning to be creative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the relationship between perception &amp; creativity?<\/p>\n<p>In this fascinating TED talk, Google&#8217;s Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas talks about everything from the structure of the brain to how the inflow of data can be reversed to synthesize really trippy imagery. Maybe if I watch it a dozen more times I\u2019ll start to grok what\u2019s happening here\u2014but in the meantime, trust me, it\u2019s well worth watching at least once:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q2MEJ-lo3oI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity \u2014 and it&#8217;s not human. Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google, works with deep neural networks for machine perception and distributed learning. In this captivating demo, he shows how neural nets trained to recognize images can be run in reverse, to generate them. The results: spectacular, hallucinatory collages (and poems!) that defy categorization. &#8220;Perception and creativity are very intimately connected,&#8221; Ag\u00fcera y Arcas says. &#8220;Any creature, any being that is able to do perceptual acts is also able to create.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/NewImage-2.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/q2MEJ-lo3oI\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the relationship between perception &amp; creativity? In this fascinating TED talk, Google&#8217;s Blaise Ag\u00fcera y Arcas talks about everything from the structure of the brain to how the inflow of data can be reversed to synthesize really trippy imagery. Maybe if I watch it a dozen more times I\u2019ll start to grok what\u2019s happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}