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	Podcast:		Into the Impossible
	Episode:		Episode 9: Artificial Imagination
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:33:36
	Publish Date:		2017-08-31 20:00:23
	Description:		We kick off Season 2 of Into the Impossible by diving into the world of artificial imagination. As the artificial intelligence dream comes closer to AI reality, are the doomsday stories about AI correct—or will AI augment human imagination in unexpected and powerful ways? We speak with Kenric McDowell, the Director of Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence group, about generative AIs, Deep Dream, neural nets, AlphaGo and Deep Blue, artists working with machine learning, and what the technological enhancement of human imagination may, ultimately, look like. Deep Dream generated image, based on Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Contest: Try to identify all the AI-related clips in the montage at 0:30, and email us at info@imagination.ucsd.edu. We’ll pick pick one winner to get a Clarke Center prize! Links: Google Artists and Machine Intelligence Refik Anadol Harold Cohen Ross Goodwin The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination on Facebook and Twitter Music: All interstitial music was composed and, in many cases, performed by AI (presented in order of appearance): Minuet in D, performed by Elaine Chew and composed by MorpheuS-Bach “Omusic 07,” by Melomics Set #1, featuring a tune written by the Bot Dylan AI and performed by Eimear McGeown, Tad Sargent, Daren Banarsë and Rob Webb “Attention RNN Song Sample 1,” by Google Magenta “Lookback RNN Melody 2,” by Google Magenta “Lookback RNN Melody 3,” by Google Magenta Bach style chorale, by EMI and David Cope “Daddy’s Car,” by Sony CSL Illiac Suite for String Quartet, by Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson “Attention RNN Song Sample 2,” by Google Magenta “Break Free,” by Taryn Southern “Genesis” Symphonic Fantasy in A minor, Op. 21, by AIVA Email us at info@imagination.ucsd.edu.
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