The Mechanical Accuracy of the Player Piano
Ramin Djawadi, composer for the HBO series Westworld, describes the manner the player-piano "plays" songs: "It's got a robotic harshness to it which is very distinctive. When a human plays it, the dynamics are modified. But when the player piano hits a note, it's always the same."
Are there similarity to how a player piano "plays" a song and how a robot journalist "writes" an article? Is there that same "robot harshness" as opposed to a "modified" form when a human writes? |
Computer software can now allow users to program songs using various instruments, mechanizing the way music is performed. Can we say that machines play music (or write articles)? Or do they purely output data in terms understandable to humans? If there is no thought process to writing, composing, or creating, but rather an unseen algorithmic process, is there any actual writing that takes place? If so, can we say that the algorithmic process inside of a computer is its brain power?
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Compare, if you will, the different style of these two versions of the same song. One is played by a programnmed player piano and the other is played by a human. Is there more rigidity in one? More fluidity in another? More precision? More expression?
Compare, if you will, the different style of these two versions of the same song. One is played by a programnmed player piano and the other is played by a human. Is there more rigidity in one? More fluidity in another? More precision? More expression?
Player Piano Version
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Version played by MariaKlob
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Will humans one day program computers to improvise writing? If so, can we then call robot writing "creative"?
"Artificial Intelligence" on 60 Minutes aired 10/9/16
While this episode of 60 Minutes does not deal specifically with automated robot writers, it does discuss how artificial intelligence is affecting our society and will continue to do so as the technology improves and evolves.
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Robot Poetry
Creative Accident?In May of 2016 The Guardian reported that a Google Artificial Intelligence (AI) project "accidentally" wrote poetry after assimilating thousands of romantic novels. Accidentally? It seems like a robot writer would need a command to produce something like poetry. Does it? Is this then an example of a robot being creative?
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Samuel Gibbs:"Google is working with Stanford University and University of Massachusetts in the US to enhance the natural language skills of an AI technique called recurrent neural network language model (RNNLM), which is used within machine translation and image captioning among other tasks. It essentially builds sentences a single word at a time by analysing the previous words in that sentence."
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AI program wrote:"there is no one else in the world.
there is no one else in sight. they were the only ones who mattered. they were the only ones left. he had to be with me. she had to be with him. i had to do this. i wanted to kill him. i started to cry. i turned to him." |
For the full article and more of the poem go here.
Botpoet.com has an interactive game in which users choose whether a given poem was written by a man or bot.
Botpoet.com has an interactive game in which users choose whether a given poem was written by a man or bot.
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