"Popular science gangster said" AI and creativity

On June 21, supported by the Smart Spectrum AI, the series of "Popular Science Lady Story", which was funded by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and the special funding of the Central Guan Village Management Committee, was held in AI TIME. This lecture invited artificial intelligence and users. Experience expert, Deputy Director of the Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts Innovation Innovation Academy, Teacher Wu Zhuohao, associate professor of Communication University of China.

What are people discussing about AI?

What do people learn about AI?

Humans and AI are actually very complementary

When it comes to AI, the first thing everyone thinks of is the macro data and complex technologies far away from ordinary people, as well as the saying that "AI takes human work opportunities" that arouses people's anxiety;

However, in fact, AI is now everywhere in people's lives and work, and the characteristics of AI and human beings are actually complementary, and they can be "co -created" well.

AI does replace part of the current occupation, but this is the case for each technological innovation; with the help of AI, people can take their energy to do more valuable work and do things that are more suitable for people.

For example, humans are accustomed to abstract, refine, and simplify complex issues to solve complex problems; AI uses complexity to cope with complexity and solve the problem with huge computing power.

AI has solved this "violent aesthetic" method that more and more humans have failed to solve, such as AlphaGo defeated human Go champions and Alphafold to crack protein structure.

Although the computing power of the human brain is relatively weak than that of AI, it is often good at creativity. In creating this, AI and humans can form a good complementarity.

People need "AI creativity

AI creativity that advocates the director and co -creation of the exhibitions of the AI ​​exhibitions focuses on the use of AI to create AI and stimulate human more creativity with AI.

AI creativity is a new idea

In 2018, in the world's top auction house, the first auction of AI paintings appeared for the first time. How is this work produced? A art group, which is composed of artists and artificial intelligence experts, is called "OBVIOUS", which uses artificial intelligence technology to create it. Obvious group uses a technical art lover named Robbie Barrat in GitHub (github.com, common code custody platform) to open source code from the 14th century to the 20th century from the 14th century to the 20th century. As a training material, the portrait painting is called "GAN (generating the genetic confrontation network, the generative adversarial networks, a deep learning model, good at generating styles, such as generating images, text, music, etc.), which generates this. Painting.

In short, it is a French art group. Based on the invention of one American and the open source code of another American, a bunch of human oil paintings are trained to train an artificial intelligence and generate this work. Can you imagine that you have the opportunity to cross hundreds of years, span all over the world, and cooperate with people who have never met or even meet to create works together? AI is like a time -empty door, which gives you the opportunity to create co -accumulation with the historical accumulation of human civilization.

AI creativity is a new force

This new force can help everyone beyond themselves, so that people who are not good at painting can express their thoughts and emotions with the help of artificial intelligence, so that people who are not good at music can help the help of artificial intelligence in artificial intelligence. The music in the heart of the person you love allows people who are not good at engineering technology to turn their ideas into practical solutions with the help of artificial intelligence, so that people who are not good at sports can be artificially artificially artificially With the help of intelligence, analyze to improve their own movements, and even provide auxiliary guidance for professional athletes, so that scientists with limited time and energy can conduct larger and deeper exploration with the help of artificial intelligence ...

We have studied more than 2,000 AI creative cases in more than 45 fields since 2017, and found creative use of artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence to stimulate human creativity. The application of such AI creativity has actually existed widely.

AI creativity is a new strategy

Next, when we are going to do a variety of products or technology research and development, we can use new ideas and strategies to better use the new power of AI creativity.

I proposed the "people wisdom creation" model in the AI ​​era -the six major links of perception, thinking, expression, cooperation, construction, and testing in the whole process of creation, AI can play a great role in each link. Essence The collaboration between people and AI is very important. Even if you are alone, you can choose to collaborate with AI, which is very different from people's past creative process.

In the figure above, these things similar to table lamps are the prototypes of bread recognition products we developed at the time. The bread will be automatically identified under this "table lamp" and calculate the amount to be paid.

In the actual application, two completely different options appeared: one is to hide the technology elements of the bread recognition machine in the ordinary life scene, making it no different from the ordinary checkout counter; and the other kind of It highlights the sense of technology and make the bread recognition machine an independent and prominent machine table. The accuracy of the bread recognition machine recognition machine we developed is very high, but the first time has been "strike" by Halloween. It turned out that the master of the cake room specially sprinkled a bat -shaped sugar powder on the bread for the festive atmosphere. AI could not recognize it at once when I encountered such training. Today's AI products are too dependent on training data, lacking change, not to mention real creativity. This is a typical example.

In the industry, if the accuracy and reliability of AI cannot reach extremely high, they cannot be put into use; then, what are the arts and designs that have no standard answers and no particularly high requirements for accuracy and reliability?

The picture above is the "AI creativity" co -created by I and I and I: a fusion wisdom, consisting of half like the human brain and half of the machine's brain.

I asked AI to generate various visual style exploration results based on the material of the above figure:

Then select the development and adjustment of the next step in the next step, and get the final visual image:

In addition, I and AI and I composed of this painting poem and composed, which was the result of combining the sound of poetry and painting.

With the help of AI, I can make more convenient and efficient artistic and design creation in daily life. For example, in the figure below, the newborn ducklings of the neighbor's house and the beautiful environment of the environment are made of rice wines. Those who can't draw can draw and compose people who can't music. Such AI creativity can really change people's lives and work.

Online accumulated group knowledge

A large amount of knowledge accumulated online is the source of the power of today's AI. The above picture shows the knowledge map of AI using Google's search keywords, while the online accumulated group knowledge is not only text, but also images. Generated, 100 Barcelona's morning window views, and city paintings in Barcelona, ​​New York, and Beijing, which borrowed the style of painting style of the late artist Wu Guanzhong.

However, because the current AI does not really understand this world, it is normal to generate an unreliable image. For example, the flying pepper in the figure below:

In fact, I hope that AI generates peppers by the window, and the output result that conforms to human logic should be:

When people can cross the creative skills that have been learned in the past, they can focus more on the creative itself, and let AI make full exploration, and then choose the most suitable one from the results, which has formed huge progress in itself. At the same time, this also puts forward higher requirements for people, and fully and efficiently use AI creativity requirements.

Based on these research results, we tried the way of thinking about the creativity of AI, the AI ​​co -creation tool selected from thousands of AI applications around the world, and used in the AI ​​creativity education of young people.

Following the first Children's Creation Park and the first AI creative growth camp we opened in 2019, we continue to polish the design and practice of the paradise and courses. In August 2022, a new Beijing flagship park will be opened. 8 Wan Pingmi is outdoors, creativity and science and technology themes. It is located in Beijing Green Heart Forest Park and next to Universal Studios. For details, please see the public account "Apailang Creation Paradise". Children play in middle schools and schools, and intuitively experience the magical applications of AI technology, and create creative results with AI.

In the future, it belongs to AI creative talents who are good at the director of the AI ​​exhibitions and co -created!

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