Creativity and AI 

with 

Deep Neural Nets
"Going Wild"
Roelof Pieters
roelof@creative.ai
What is Deep
Learning?
python has a wide range of deep
learning-related libraries available
Low level
High level
and of course:
Deep Learning with Python
haz	knowledge
Transferable
Creative AI ?
Creative AI projects?
http://www.creativeai.net/ #Crea&veAI
Code & Papers?
http://gitxiv.com/ #GitXiv
http://ethicalmachines.com/
Creativity…
https://medium.com/@creativeai/creativeai-9d4b2346faf3
Python Code
Finding	“Order”	in	the	“Chaos”
(Mapping)
(Pathfinding)
Vector	Walking
(Multimodal linguistic regularities)
A person that is
standing on a 

beach by the ocean .
People out on the
beach next to the
ocean .
A cement beach
on a sandy beach
near the water
Image	to	Image	Pathfinding
??
Nearest	Images
Image	Path
Generating	“stuff”
(IMAGINATION)
Img	>	Vec	>	Text
(1-way	street)
Img	>	Vec	>>	<<Vec	Txt	
(2-way	dead-end)
Decoder!
https://vimeo.com/146492001
Kyle	McDonald,	NeuralTalk	and	Walk
STYLE

TRANSFER
(MORPHING

/ REMIXING)
https://github.com/alexjc/neural-doodle
Gene Kogan, Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?
https://vimeo.com/139123754
STYLE TRANSFER FOR TEXT
http://wip.dev:8888/notebooks/vse-DEMO2.ipynb
Live	Demo	
Why not live dangerously ?
"No anchor was on the beach , so I turned my face back to the ocean . For
a moment , I imagined what it would be like to fall in love with him . For
the first time in the past twenty-four hours , the sun had risen up and out
of the ocean . She had no idea who she really wanted to be , but she was n't
the most beautiful person on the island . She shook her head and brushed
her hair out of his face , leaving Jax and his friends . Like the ocean , there
was something far beyond the ability to make me fall asleep ."
"We were barely able to breathe the beach at the beach , and for the first
time in the past few months . When I walked into the ocean , I felt as if she
had just stepped out of my line of sight . There was no way I would ever be
able to talk to Nate , but he was still alive , so that 's the most beautiful
thing on the beach . I had no intention of letting my friends go . The sun
warmed up , leaving the sandy beach beside the ocean . She had no clue
what they might want to do with him , and I fell into the beach more often
than life .”
"We were barely a beach on the beach , and for the first time in the
past few months . When I stepped out of the ocean , I felt the urge
to close my eyes and breathe deeply . God , she was beautiful . She
had no idea what to do with him , so that it would be the end of the
day . I could n't help but notice that the sandy beach beside the
beach had turned out to be sand , and the ocean breeze was cutting
off my skin . Like I m here , I trusted him after the endless beach ."
AUDIO GENERATION: MIDI
▸ https://soundcloud.com/graphific/pyotr-lstm-
tchaikovsky
A Recurrent Latent Variable Model for
Sequential Data, 2016, 

J. Chung, K. Kastner, L. Dinh, K. Goel,
A. Courville, Y. Bengio
+ “modded VRNN:
AUDIO GENERATION: MIDI
▸ https://soundcloud.com/graphific/neural-remix-net
A Recurrent Latent Variable Model for
Sequential Data, 2016, 

J. Chung, K. Kastner, L. Dinh, K. Goel,
A. Courville, Y. Bengio
+ “modded VRNN:
HALLUCINATING NEURAL NETS
(“WILD” IMAGINATION)
HALLUCINATE {*X*}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyxSerkkP4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVg-V8-7q0
Questions?
(Embraces,	and	love	letters	are	also	appreciated…)
@graphific
roelof@creative.ai
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Creativity and AI: 
Deep Neural Nets "Going Wild"