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Yes, AI and art has been around for a while now, but I thought they were going to show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end

by eggy 11y ago

Yes, AI and art has been around for a while now, but I thought they were going to show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end of the article, and was curious. When I went further, and saw a class being offered, I was really excited only to find out it started October 15th 2015, and still has the sign-up listed. Then I tried to possibly join, but after seeing I would need to spend upwards of $388 per year to listen to a conference recording, I bowed out. I am not against paying, but as a hobbyist, I would venture $120 / year for access to conference and broadcast recordings, resources and forums. I can see sandboxes and courses being additional.

nahumfarchi 11y ago
I find applications of AI to art very interesting. Do you have any pointers?
- xaedes 11y ago
  The relevant field of research is "computational creativity". For a bibliography look at http://computationalcreativity.net/home/resources/bibliography/ http://computationalcreativity.net/home/resources/bibliograp...
- nrjames 11y ago
  This is your current best resource: http://www.creativeai.net/ http://www.creativeai.net/ And this is an intro to that site, in a way: https://medium.com/@ArtificialExperience/creativeai-9d4b2346faf3#.a51ll1wcm https://medium.com/@ArtificialExperience/creativeai-9d4b2346...
- eggy 11y ago
  I actually prefer the term CI, or computational intelligence over AI. There is a wide gamut of things using CI or AI to do or explore art, with art being a very flexible concept. I consider 'Inceptionism' a form of art [1]. I did some personal explorations using GA (Genetic Algorithms) to score some music to my liking by letting the system evolve short melodies, and then based on a -1, 0, 1 score I gave them, evolve more samples for me to listen to. I played with Mathematica quite a bit after Stephen Wolfram published 'A New Kind of Science', and tried creating CAs (cellular automata) that started on one of the sides as well as the top, and created my own rules for where they intersected on the diaganol with restarts. I am now into livecoding music and graphics at a beginner level, and I am already trying to incorporate feedback, or competitive coding by a neural network doing time series analysis on my output and playing off of me like a jazz musician would, but it is in the concept, and prototype stage now. A conceptual idea I had in the 1990s involved writing a computer virus whose purpose was to replicate, and hide undetected in the system with no purpose to do harm, or do anything for that matter, but only to serve as a 'time-capsule' with a message to be released in the year 2000. I thought creating code that could evolve to seek new places to place itself on its own would be cool, and have a message popup on many terminals or out of a printer saying, "I am alive!". Needless to say I learned a lot about self-modifying code, but never created it. I think game AI is incredible, but it is a field I have only read about. I am sure there are a lot of things going on that you wouldn't guess from just playing the game. Unfortunately, I have never really been a gamer; it just never bit me. [1] http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.id/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html
nacs 11y ago
> show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end of the article, and was curious I'm reasonably sure that still shot is not a real-time/in-game shot. It looks to be rendered with Chunky [1] (an out-of-game renderer which takes hours/days to render a still shot). This is why you're seeing such a large render-distance and things like depth of field/soft-shadows. [1]: http://chunky.llbit.se/gallery.html http://chunky.llbit.se/gallery.html

by eggy 11y ago

nahumfarchi 11y ago

I find applications of AI to art very interesting. Do you have any pointers?

xaedes 11y ago
The relevant field of research is "computational creativity". For a bibliography look at http://computationalcreativity.net/home/resources/bibliography/ http://computationalcreativity.net/home/resources/bibliograp...
nrjames 11y ago
This is your current best resource: http://www.creativeai.net/ http://www.creativeai.net/ And this is an intro to that site, in a way: https://medium.com/@ArtificialExperience/creativeai-9d4b2346faf3#.a51ll1wcm https://medium.com/@ArtificialExperience/creativeai-9d4b2346...
eggy 11y ago
I actually prefer the term CI, or computational intelligence over AI. There is a wide gamut of things using CI or AI to do or explore art, with art being a very flexible concept. I consider 'Inceptionism' a form of art [1]. I did some personal explorations using GA (Genetic Algorithms) to score some music to my liking by letting the system evolve short melodies, and then based on a -1, 0, 1 score I gave them, evolve more samples for me to listen to. I played with Mathematica quite a bit after Stephen Wolfram published 'A New Kind of Science', and tried creating CAs (cellular automata) that started on one of the sides as well as the top, and created my own rules for where they intersected on the diaganol with restarts. I am now into livecoding music and graphics at a beginner level, and I am already trying to incorporate feedback, or competitive coding by a neural network doing time series analysis on my output and playing off of me like a jazz musician would, but it is in the concept, and prototype stage now. A conceptual idea I had in the 1990s involved writing a computer virus whose purpose was to replicate, and hide undetected in the system with no purpose to do harm, or do anything for that matter, but only to serve as a 'time-capsule' with a message to be released in the year 2000. I thought creating code that could evolve to seek new places to place itself on its own would be cool, and have a message popup on many terminals or out of a printer saying, "I am alive!". Needless to say I learned a lot about self-modifying code, but never created it. I think game AI is incredible, but it is a field I have only read about. I am sure there are a lot of things going on that you wouldn't guess from just playing the game. Unfortunately, I have never really been a gamer; it just never bit me. [1] http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.id/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html

nacs 11y ago

> show Minecraft running with enhanced textures. I saw the still shot at the end of the article, and was curious I'm reasonably sure that still shot is not a real-time/in-game shot. It looks to be rendered with Chunky [1] (an out-of-game renderer which takes hours/days to render a still shot). This is why you're seeing such a large render-distance and things like depth of field/soft-shadows. [1]: http://chunky.llbit.se/gallery.html http://chunky.llbit.se/gallery.html