Nº 133 :: Machine Learning and Creative Power

Our 133rd meetup at Mesh asked whether artificial intelligence can make people more creative, and how machine learning tools can support creative work. Two practitioners who use machine learning as a core part of their work gave talks.

Sofia Crespo described how she was introduced to machine learning and the basic concepts that changed how she looks at images and builds visual compositions. She shared tools useful for designers, artists and tinkerers, and presented her project Neural Zoo, which reimagines nature with generative algorithms.

Andreas Refsgaard talked about how letting people train a system's controls themselves shifts creative power to the person using it. He showed games controlled by sounds, music composed by drawing instruments on paper, algorithms trained to judge what is funny or boring, and Booksby.ai, an online bookstore selling AI-generated science fiction novels.

Speakers

• Sofia Crespo
• Andreas Refsgaard

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