AI assisted creativity @graphific
Roelof Pieters
Berlin ‘17roelof@creative.ai
Artificial Intelligence / AI
Artificial Intelligence / AI
John McCarthy (1970) Douglas Engelbart (1968)
AI as in “Augmentation”
Virtual Reality Headset 

(1968 — Ivan Sutherland)
Sketchpad (1963) “The Mother of All Demos” (1968)

Doug Engelbart / SRI
Xerox Parc Computer / GUI 

(1970s)
AI as in “Augmentation”
“Computers are useless.
They can only give you
answers”
— Pablo Picasso,1964
(https://twitter.com/teropa/status/865857515350888448)
Creative AI?
Early Creative AI
Early Creative AI
Shannon, C. E. (1951) “Prediction and Entropy of Printed
English” In Bell System Technical Journal 30 (1): 50–64
Early Creative AI
Z22, built 1956; 

now at ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Theo Lutz: "Stochastische Texte", in: augenblick 4 (1959), H. 1, S. 3-9
Early Creative AI
Cybernetic Serendipity (1968)
Michael Noll. In 1970
Brian Eno (1978) “Music for Airports”
https://medium.com/@creativeai/creativeai-9d4b2346faf3
“First we shape our
tools, thereafter they
shape us”
— Marshall McLuhan, 1967
“First we shape our
tools, thereafter they
shape us”
— Marshall McLuhan, 1967
Before Autotone
“First we shape our
tools, thereafter they
shape us”
— Marshall McLuhan, 1967
After Autotone
Contemporary
Creative AI
StyleTransfer with Neural Networks
Automatic Sketch Cleanup
StyleTransfer across Media types
3D Style-Transfer
Music Style-Transfer Text Style-Transfer
Image Style-Transfer
Generative Logo Design
Generating Stories from Images
Generative 3D Modeling
DeepWarp: Photorealistic Image Resynthesis for Gaze Manipulation
Yaroslav Ganin et.al. 2016
“From Gaze Detection to Gaze correction”
FaceSwap (“We are the World” Karaoke)
Generative Games (No Man’s Sky)
Generative Fashion (by Nervous Systems)
Generative Design (by Autodesk)
Generative Car Design (Autodesk Hack-Rod)
Generative Architecture (by Michel Hansmeyer)
From classification
to generation
https://github.com/alexjc/neural-doodle
HALLUCINATE {*X*}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyxSerkkP4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVg-V8-7q0
Creative AI > Design /
Creativity ?
Design as Search
https://www.slideshare.net/roelofp/creativity-and-ai-deep-neural-nets-going-wild
https://www.slideshare.net/roelofp/creativity-and-ai-deep-neural-nets-going-wild
https://www.slideshare.net/roelofp/creativity-and-ai-deep-neural-nets-going-wild
Creative AI > Design /
Creativity ?
Design as 

Recommending 

“Actions”
http://www.creativeai.net/posts/qPpnatfMqwMKXPEw7/chor-rnn-generative-choreography-using-deep-learning
http://www.creativeai.net/posts/qPpnatfMqwMKXPEw7/chor-rnn-generative-choreography-using-deep-learning
Robin Sloan, Writing with the machine
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html
David Ha & Douglas Eck - A neural representation of sketch drawings
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html
David Ha & Douglas Eck - A neural representation of sketch drawings
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html
David Ha & Douglas Eck - A neural representation of sketch drawings
David Ha & Douglas Eck - A neural representation of sketch drawings
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html
David Ha & Douglas Eck - A neural representation of sketch drawings
https://research.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html
https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/sketch-rnn-demo
Douglas Eck and Jurgen Schmidhuber (2002) Learning The Long-Term Structure of the Blues?
Early	LSTM	music	composition	(2002)
Nsynth	Temporal	Autoencoder	(2017)
Creative AI?
proper design

(system)
proper design

(designer)
Creative AI?
GENERATE FILTER
Computer/System
CURATE TEST
Human/Designer
Wanna be Doing
Deep Learning?
python has a wide range of deep
learning-related libraries available
Low level
High level
and of course:
Deep Learning with Python
Wanna be Doing
some Reading?
More Stuff…
Creative AI projects?
http://www.creativeai.net/ #Crea&veAI
Code & Papers?
http://gitxiv.com/ #GitXiv
http://ethicalmachines.com/
We	are	hiring!
@graphific roelof@creative.ai
http://join.creative.ai/
We	are	looking	for	designers	to	interview!
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AI assisted creativity