AI&Creativity: BigGAN as a creative engine

Truly, the year 2018 can be called the begin of the real creativity made with/by Artificial Intelligence.

Sure, the whole story begun earlier, Google Deep Dream was already a continuation of human attempts to use a machine for art.

With development of #AI the production of art by the digital entities became fully new form — in interim state between author and tool.

The attempts, for use of Artificial Intelligence in the art world became in the Summer 2018 controversially prominent, as an artist collective Obvious has sold an AI generated work at Christie’s (with some crucial copyright issues).

2018 also made BigGAN (GAN = Generative Adversarial Networks)popular. Let’s take a closer look of this auspicious development.

Researches, programmers, artists are working based on Deep Learning using TensorFlow (open-source software library for dataflow programming by Google, practical for Deep Learning) and trying to let the…