From drawing machines to early digital art and now AI, we’ve wondered whether the fundamentally human seeming endeavor of ART MAKING can be done by machines. At Idea Channel, we think the answer is unequivocally, yes! Perhaps the better question would be, will we ever let machines make art on their own? Will we ever … Read More » “From PBS: Can an AI create art?”
When art is generated by Artificial Intelligence, what or who can we call the artist? We look to art history to consider the long collaboration between humans and technology. About 75,000 views. Important Note Content Editors rate, curate and regularly update what we believe are the top 11% of all AI resource and good practice … Read More » “From PBS: Do machines make art?”
“Machine learning” is now being applied to instruct artificial intelligence how to create paintings and music. David Pogue checks out Google’s Magenta project; challenges the AI “composer” at Amper Music to score a dramatic scene; and is asked to identify which pieces of art were created by humans and which by artificial intelligence, at the … Read More » “From CBS: The computer as artists: AI art and music”
Magenta is an open source research project exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process. Important Note Content Editors rate, curate and regularly update what we believe are the top 11% of all AI resource and good practice examples and is why our content is rated from 90% to 100%. … Read More » “From Google Research: A lesson plan resource about Magenta and creating art and music”
When human ingenuity and technology meet, they have the power to solve some of the biggest environmental challenges. Microsoft supports their partners working on the front lines of sustainability. Important Note Content Editors rate, curate and regularly update what we believe are the top 11% of all AI resource and good practice examples and is … Read More » “From Microsoft: AI for Earth”
Like us, whales sing. But unlike us, their songs can travel hundreds of miles underwater. Those songs potentially help them find a partner, communicate and migrate around the world. But what if we could use these songs and machine learning to better protect them? Despite decades of being protected against whaling, 15 species of whales … Read More » “AI Good Practice: A tale of a whale song”
For over 20 years, Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants, has used Google Earth to track, study, and protect elephants from poaching with geofences and satellite collars on elephants. Important Note Content Editors rate, curate and regularly update what we believe are the top 11% of all AI resource and good practice examples … Read More » “AI Good Practice: Earth Hero- Save the Elephants”
So many of us believe that technology has a crucial role to play in fighting climate change, but few are as aware that “Saving the Rainforest” and fighting climate change are nearly one and the same. By the numbers, destruction of forests accounts for nearly one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions every year. And in … Read More » “AI Good Practice: Detecting deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest”
Floods are devastating natural disasters worldwide—it’s estimated that every year, 250 million people around the world are affected by floods, also costing billions of dollars in damages. Flood forecasting can help individuals and authorities better prepare to keep people safe, but accurate forecasting isn’t currently available in many areas. And the warning systems that do … Read More » “AI Good Practice: Keeping people safe with AI-enabled flood forecasting”
From hurricanes and floods to volcanoes and earthquakes, the Earth is continuously evolving in fits and spurts of dramatic activity. Earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis alone have caused massive destruction in the last decade—even over the course of writing this post, there were earthquakes in New Caledonia, Southern California, Iran, and Fiji, just to name a … Read More » “AI Good Practice: Forecasting earthquake aftershock locations with AI-assisted science”
