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My book review:
In The Creativity Code, Marcus du Sautoy (a University of Oxford mathematician) dives into an exploration between the lines of artificial intelligence and human creativity through stories and examples on games, art, music, storytelling, and songwriting to name a few; the history of machine learning algorithms; and if programmed machines can develop a form of consciousness, producing this human trait of creativity, or just give an illusion of it through imitation.
Here’s some excerpts:
"Fake” Artists on Spotify
[François] Pachet has been poached from Sony Labs and is now working for Spotify. Given that rumors have been circulating that Spotify is creating playlists full of songs by "fake" artists, the move is an interesting one. Music critics spotted a number of artists on Spotify who were notching up an extraordinary number of hits thanks to their inclusion on popular playlists curated by Spotify for meditation or running. A band called Deep Watch had recorded 4.5 million plays over a five-month period.
When critics tried to find out who these artists were, they kept drawing blanks: no presence anywhere else on the internet; no upcoming concerts; no details anywhere of such a band. A rumour began to circulate that the music was being generated by ‘fake artists’ so that Spotify wouldn’t have to pay royalties. Spotify hit back: ‘We do not and never have created “fake” artists and put them on Spotify playlists. Categorically untrue, full stop.’ But it does appear that they were specifically commissioning minor artists to create songs under fake names at royalty rates that were much more favourable to the company than its standard deals with record labels.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Botnik
Machine learning is changing that. It’s now possible for an algorithm to take an author’s entire opus and learn something about the way they write. If they favour a particular word, there may be a high probability that this word will be followed by certain other words. By building up a probabilistic picture of how an author uses words, an algorithm could start to generate the continuation of a text. This is how predictive texting works. The literary results have been both revealing and entertaining.
This use of machine learning to create new literature has been championed by a group that calls itself Botnik. [...] The group has taken Seinfeld scripts and produced new episodes based on a mathematical analysis of past dialogue and even got an actor from Scrubs, Zach Braff, to perform a monologue.
Probably their most successful output to date came from training Botnik on the seven volumes of Harry Potter. The three pages it generated have a very convincing ring to them.
Magic: it was something that Harry Potter thought was very good. Leathery sheets of rain lashed at Harry’s ghost as he walked across the grounds towards the castle.
But there are moments of pure genius that could only have come from an algorithm:
Ron was standing there and doing a kind of frenzied tap dance. He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione’s family. Ron’s Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself.
I guess for fans who are really desperate for more from the wizarding world this may be better than nothing, but it’s pretty plot-free and is unlikely to sustain much drama beyond three pages.”
(End of the excerpts)
Can you guess which painting out of the two below was made by an AI to mimic the art of Rembrandt?
Did you pick?
Are you sure with your choice?
The answer is the first one. (Did you spot Rembrandt’s signature on the second one?)
Even though I am cautious as hell of AIs (I don’t play with no damn robots. I seen I, Robot 👀), The Creativity Code is an intriguing, well-researched, and written book that I will def be rereading.
As I’m sure many of you have heard of Botnik’s “Predictive Writer” tool. It’s been widely used to create some beautiful masterpieces such as de-facto AI-generated erotica or the famous “Harry Potter and the Portrait of what Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash”. You basically plug in a source text for it to take specific words and phrases from and then use word it suggests to (hopefully) construct sentences that make SOME kind of sense. Kind of like auto-correct. Just better.
WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, may I present to you, THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN SECRET INVADER ZIM EPISODE “CURLY FRIES OF JUDGEMENT”. Enjoy.
[Ep2]
I was thinking about how other powers (specifically The Lonely) would go about creating their messiah like Agnes Montague and then I realised
Statement of Harry Potter, regarding a portrait of what looked like a large pile of ash.
Half-Life: Opposing Force But It’s Written by a Bot
Adrian Shephard is a damn good soldier and his orders were in black mesa facility. That mission was a huge morbid mess so Shephard attacked the chopper for crashing. Then a scientist named Walter found him and rescued the lost corporal. But the Shephard screams and arming himself with a bomb targets the zombie and turns him into unknown materials.
The other soldiers had left him behind and Adrian knew they were all bastards. Otis feels sorry for him and tells him to shelter but Shephard doesn't care and finds grenades to fight the chopper with. Race X appear and the standoff begins. The goddamn soldier strikes the dying aliens with the electric beam and says "you must die or I will machinegun ya asses to hell."
The survived soldiers want Adrian's help to fight Black Ops assassin so he runs into the hangar and exploded them until they were nervous. Barney starts to explain that the creature is coming but Shephard is already gone. The bomb targets all the facility. "Screw you soldiers and orders i'm gonna figure out how to leave" says Shephard as he attacked the chopper with a stick. The G-Man told him not to fight anyone any more.
predictive text google review of the terrible ihop in niagara falls
My family was thrown in the toilet after waiting for two days. Unreal customer service... The waitress said "Spinach is not obligated to sing happy birthday."
the food was very unprofessional... I got the only banana and it actually walked out with the waitress. We ate 4 employees and they were cold. No flavor and they tried to berate me while i finished eating. It was horrible.
Also, we were charged a $155.00 service charge for no reason. Prices were inedible and i didn't even eat any kind of bacon. Avoid the hotel, i had a quick bite and quickly returned it.... Super upset... Microwaved the table and it was dry and looked like green oil.
Honestly a good breakfast restaurant for sure. After eating within this place, i finally understand why the only way to get happy is to burn a little toast.... By the way, eggs were nice. Will never go to wisconsin.
I wish i could give ihop a 24 star rating. sandwiches are not even real... No one go to any place ever again.
Botnik schreibt einen Mallorca-Hit
Dieses Mal habe ich ihn mit Texten von Mickie Krause gefüttert.
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