Can AI Be Truly Creative?
By Arthur I. Miller
Computers and artificial neural networks are redefining the relationship between art and science.
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July-August 2020
Volume 108, Number 4
Page 244
Art and science have always interacted—Galileo Galilei’s seminal telescopic drawings of the Moon were informed by his studies at the Florentine Academy of Art—but popular interpretations of the relationship between the two have swung back and forth through the ages.
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- Art and science have always influenced each other, but artificial intelligence (AI) provides a medium for these spheres to fuse and create new forms of expression and discovery.
- Artificial neural networks, loosely modeled after how neurons process information, can generate novel art, which is sometimes indistinguishable from images created by humans
- AI art offers an opportunity for humans and computers to collaborate and for scientists to better understand how machines function.
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