Artificial Creativity 0x01 (Introduction & Planning)

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Join us for a monthly evening of informal conversations and presentations on the intersection of creativity and artificial intelligence. We are interested in the use of AI techniques (neural networks, genetic algorithms, Markov chains, natural language systems, etc.) to generate creative works, be it stories (http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/25/7276157/nanogenmo-robot-author-novel), poems (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-poem-that-passed-the-turing-test), paintings (http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html), musical compositions (http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/experiments.htm), drawings (https://github.com/hardmaru/sketch-rnn), Super Mario levels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Gc6diodcY), or anything else, and in tools for assisting human creativity.

There will be time for anyone to share and discuss a project they have made. Don't hesitate showing work that’s in progress or incomplete. We also encourage you to share tutorials/frameworks to enable others to reproduce or even expand on your work.

No prior knowledge about AI is required to attend; just a sense of curiosity about the future of machine-made art and its philosophical and cultural implications!

Plan for March 24th

Our first meetup will be a casual event. We will have a free-form discussion about our interests, the topics that we want to be covering in the meetup, how we want our future meetups to be structured, and plans for building our community.

Code of Conduct

The meetup adheres by the Berlin Code of Conduct: http://berlincodeofconduct.org/ . Please make sure you agree with its content.