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:: Thursday, March 29, 2007 ::

In Its Image

In Its Image - Google Video
initsimage.org

This is a documentary about an AI system, which includes some details about giving the system "imagination" by feeding noise into the neural net. (I'd be interested to know whether it can differentiate this noise from its external inputs; does it "know" it is imagining?) It then composes some electronic music, thousands of pieces over a weekend, making it the most prolific composer on the planet. Some of these are now available on CD.

There's plenty of philosophy on the subject of AI, not to mention copious amounts of sci-fi and speculation of varying quality, but I won't go into that right now. I don't know if doppelganger wants to muse on it?

Thanks to Terminator and The Matrix et al some now leap to the conclusion (albeit jokingly) that AI is a bad thing, inevitably going to cause the fall of humanity. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the general public conception. But try looking at it from the other side; it may be the next step in evolution. Maybe it is the intelligence that will allow us to travel through the hole in the donut? [Intentionally using US spelling there]

I've been reading and thinking a lot about computer generated music again recently (I wrote my dissertation on it, although that seems like an age ago now), I will return to that subject in a later post.

Labels: AI, Computing, Electronic, Music

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