AI & Creativity: BigGAN as a creative engine

Truly, the year 2018 can be seen as the beginning of the creativity heyday 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 the development of #AI, the production of art by digital entities became a fully new form — an interim state between author and tool. The attempts for use of Artificial Intelligence in the art world became controversially prominent in the summer of 2018, when collective Obvious sold an AI generated work at Christie’s (with some crucial copyright issues). https://twitter.com/artnet/status/1031881175005061120 In 2018, another key player from the subset of creative AI tools became…...