How computers are learning to be creative
Blaise Agüera Y Arcas
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. Perception and creativity are very intimately connected, Agüera y Arcas says. Any creature, any being that is able to do perceptual acts is also able to create.