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Magenta: Machine learning and creativity

Magenta: Machine learning and creativity

Doug Eck offers an overview of Magenta, a Google Brain project to develop new generative machine learning models for art and sound creation, allowing us to better understand how machine learning can be used by artists and musicians to make something new. Doug provides demos and explains where this work fits in with other AI research being done at Google and elsewhere.

Talk Title Magenta: Machine learning and creativity
Speakers Doug Eck (Google Brain)
Conference O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference
Conf Tag Put AI to Work
Location New York, New York
Date June 27-29, 2017
URL Talk Page
Slides
Video Talk Video

From the charcoal and mineral pigments used in cave paintings to today’s digital cameras and drum machines, technology has always been a necessary component in making art and music. How might cutting-edge machine learning algorithms give rise to new forms of artistic expression? Doug Eck offers an overview of Magenta, a Google Brain project to develop new generative machine learning models for art and sound creation, allowing us to better understand how machine learning can be used by artists and musicians to make something new. Doug provides demos and explains where this work fits in with other AI research being done at Google and elsewhere.

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