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Blaise Aguera y Arcas - TDC14 - Predictions on Machine Intelligence
June 2, 2014

Blaise is probably one of the brightest minds to have graced the Thinking Digital stage. This is part one of his two part talk based on his recent TED blog covering six predictions for the future. In the blog, Blaise discusses Machine Intelligence, Gender Selection, Economics, The Body, Space, and Sexuality. This fascinating talk delves deeper into the subject of how machine intelligence will shape our future.

 

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How computers are learning to be creative | Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Jul 22, 2016

We're on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity — and it's not human. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google, works with deep neural networks for machine perception and distributed learning. In this captivating demo, he shows how neural nets trained to recognize images can be run in reverse, to generate them. The results: spectacular, hallucinatory collages (and poems!) that defy categorization. "Perception and creativity are very intimately connected," Agüera y Arcas says. "Any creature, any being that is able to do perceptual acts is also able to create."