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Title: Studio 360: Are Computers Creative?
Author: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-07-12
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Summary:
Computers have taken over an astonishing array of tasks humans used to do. They fly our planes, give us directions, recommend books, set us up on dates. But can they tell us a good story?
Next, AARON is the worlds first cybernetic artist: an artificially intelligent system that composes its own paintings. Incredibly, the system is the work of one man, Harold Cohen, who had no background in computing when he began the effort.
Then, to make art, a computer first needs to understand what art is. A group of computer scientists at Brigham Young University is attempting this by feeding their program images by the thousands and describing those images. Digital Artist Communicating Intent (she goes by DARCI) recognizes about 2,000 adjectives so far, including terms like peaceful, scary, and dark. The goal is to teach DARCI to pick out those visual qualities in artwork and ultimately, to write algorithms modeling creativity for artificial intelligence.
Then, Patrick Winston is Principal Investigator at MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. He believes that creating better artificial intelligence is not a matter of more powerful processing: we have to teach computers how to think more like humans.
And finally, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall is at the forefront of the search for new theories about how the universe works. Shes especially interested in dark matter and is involved in work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And although her work requires complex math and work on the theoretical level, she manages to write about the universe in laymans terms. [Broadcast Date: July 7, 2012]
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