Artificial intelligence and creativity: If robots can make art, what’s left for us?
Artificial intelligence is becoming commonplace, from your smartphone and your Amazon account to the driverless cars that will soon grace public roads in Australia.
Often, the response to this reality is one of trepidation and concern, about mass unemployment and the dominance of Big Tech. But that’s not always the case.
“Art is one of the last domains in AI where there is an optimistic view on how humans and machines can work together,” says Dave King, founder of Move 37, a creative AI company.
He says creativity is not a God-given thing. It’s a process, and it takes practice.
“One of the most interesting aspects of creativity is that ability to combine ideas or to draw things together,” he says.
“If you have an algorithm that is working for you in the way you want it to it can source and discover lots and lots of different things.” Read more…
