Eduardo Miranda wants to shake up musical composition. At the moment, he is interested in central processing units (CPUs). In today’s computers, CPUs are silicon chips with circuitry that enables them to perform arithmetical, logical, and control operations. But supposing we go beyond silicon, beyond digital, beyond even a quantum computer? What about, for example, a bioprocessor that powers a biocomputer? …
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The big question: can machines be creative, can machines produce art, and can we learn to appreciate it?
Someday, artificial intelligence could become so advanced that it gains the ability to think creatively — and, perhaps, so vastly surpasses humanity’s artistic abilities that it would have to explain its creations to our squishy, primitive brains. At least, that’s one of the predictions that physicist, philosopher, and creativity scholar Arthur Miller makes in his new book, “The […]
Read MoreAI Podcast with Ather Gattami
Originally published as Episode 74 on AI-Podden.se : Kreativitet och AI med professor Arthur I. Miller on 31 October, 2019. …
Read MoreThe Artist in the Machine excerpted in Papaya Rocks
Thrilled to be excerpted in Papaya Rocks. Today, computers are creating an extraordinary new world of images, sounds, and stories such as we have never experienced before. Gerfried Stocker, the outspoken artistic director of Ars Electronica in Linz, says provocatively, “Rather than asking whether machines can be creative and produce art, the question should be, […]
Read MoreSo how does Artificial Intelligence (AI) do when it comes to telling jokes?
Have you heard the one about a robot who walks into a bar? “What can I get you?” asks the bartender. “I need something to loosen me up,” says the robot. So the bartender serves him a screwdriver. Not exactly side-splittingly funny but not bad either. I’ll bet you wouldn’t have guessed that a computer […]
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