In AI Art, Joanna Zylinska cuts through the smoke and mirrors surrounding the current narratives of computation, robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Offering a critique of the political underpinnings of AI and its dominant aesthetics, this book raises broader questions about the conditions of art making, creativity and labour today.

An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans. Today's computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh's Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? In this book, Arthur I. Miller takes us on a tour of creativity in the age of machines. Miller, an authority on creativity, identifies the key factors essential to the creative process, from “the need for introspection” to “the ability to discover the key problem.” He talks to people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence, encountering computers that mimic the brain and machines that have defeated champions in chess, Jeopardy!, and Go. In the central part of the book, Miller explores the riches of computer-created art, introducing us to artists and computer scientists who have, among much else, unleashed an artificial neural network to create a nightmarish, multi-eyed dog-cat; taught AI to imagine; developed a robot that paints; created algorithms for poetry; and produced the world's first computer-composed musical, Beyond the Fence, staged by Android Lloyd Webber and friends. But, Miller writes, in order to be truly creative, machines will need to step into the world. He probes the nature of consciousness and speaks to researchers trying to develop emotions and consciousness in computers. Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans—and someday will surpass us. But this is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.

AI for Arts is a book for anyone fascinated by the man–machine connection, an unstoppable evolution that is intertwining us with technology in an ever-greater degree, and where there is an increasing concern that it will be technology that comes out on top. Thus, presented here through perhaps its most esoteric form, namely art, this unfolding conundrum is brought to its apex. What is left of us humans if artificial intelligence also surpasses us when it comes to art? The articulation of an artificial intelligence art manifesto is long overdue, so hopefully this book can fill a gap that will have repercussions not only for aesthetic and philosophical considerations but possibly more so for the development of artificial intelligence.

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind "automated" services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world.

MAKE ART with Artificial Intelligence A guide on practical artificial intelligence for drawing, art, illustration, and design - for everyone interested in creativity, art, and technology. The book has hundreds of original illustrations made or augmented with AI, 20+ online and video tutorials, 35+ Python notebooks, a GitHub repository and a blockchain art gallery. Written and illustrated by Kevin Ashley, a Microsoft developer hall of fame engineer, and an author of books and courses on artificial intelligence. Think of this book as v3.0 of your drawing class manual on how to sketch, draw faces, emotions, body poses, landscapes, apply light, color, style, emotion, expressions, perspective, generate animations, speech and more with artificial intelligence. All artwork from this book is created or augmented with machine learning and available in online NFT gallery, as well as tutorials and practical examples. The impact of this book in data science community inspired a group of Microsoft engineers and data scientists to implement a project they called Azure Picasso to streamline the path from a conceptual artwork, enhanced with artificial intelligence to publishing art in online galleries. FROM REVIEWS This is similar to the best lecture classes I had in college where the professor talked in class about the concepts and fundamentals but then gave us homework that would let us experiment and try out the concepts hands-on. As an artist who has 30 years of artwork looking to share, I love this book because it's approachable to the novice and useful to the expert. EDITIONS Beautiful Paperback, 8x10, color edition, more illustrations than the e-book, reads like an art book, beautiful print and high-quality paper. eBook - easy to read on phones, tablets and online readers, reflowing text, great for practical tutorials, as the book has many links to tutorials. CONTENTS Getting Started (History of Art and AI - Drawing - Sketching - Action and Poses - Landscapes and Scenery - Animation - Selling your Art) Creative Tools (Traditional tools - Digital tools - AI Tools - Python - Notebooks - Practice Studies). Neural Networks for Art (Neurons - Neural networks - Supervised learning - Unsupervised learning - Generative Adversarial Networks - Machine Learning Models and Training - Reinforcement learning - Practice Studies) Drawing and Sketching with AI (Sketching - Improving Sketches with AI - Childhood Drawings - Creativity - Inking - Shading and Light - Coloring - Practice Studies) Faces and Facial Expressions (How AI recognizes human faces - Facial features - Emotions - 3D Faces - Cartoons and Caricature - Anime and Manga - Generating Faces with AI) Pose and Actions with AI (Action with AI - Keypoints - Pose Estimation - Drawing Human Body - Human Pose Datasets - Perspective and Depth) Landscapes and Scenery (Landscapes - Generating Landscapes - AI Models and Methods for Landscapes - Practice Studies) Style and Content (Style and Style Transfer in Art and AI - Generative Adversarial Networks - Creative Style) Animation with AI (History of Animation - 12 Principles of Animation - Using AI for Animation - Animating Speech, Lips and Faces) How to Sell your Art with Blockchain and NFT (Why Blockchain - Smart Contracts and NFTs - Creating a Crypto Wallet - Creating your Gallery - Listing for Sale - Getting Paid) The book comes with online tutorials, including assets, resources and notebooks for artists, data scientists or engineers. With basic Python you can create stunning works of art, but the knowledge of Python is not required. Enjoy this unique and insightful book!

AI art has grown in popularity significantly over the last couple of years. There is a lot of interest in the creation of AI art and there is a market of hungry buyers who are willing to pay a good price for the right art. Most people that start with AI art make a lot of mistakes and never successfully sell their work...

Multidisciplinary explorations of AI and its implications for art In this multidisciplinary volume, European ARTificial Intelligence Lab, in partnership with Ars Electronica, considers the incredibly rapid development of Artificial Intelligence in the context of the cyber-arts. Bringing together 13 cultural and six scientific institutions from across Europe, this publication explores the interdisciplinary exchange between art and science and summarizes the accomplishments of the AI Lab since its opening. This guide to the events and exhibitions for this project includes more than 500 reproductions, profiles on featured exhibitors and essays. In keeping with the project's focus on the interplay between art and technology, the book includes QR codes which link the reader to video lectures and other supplementary materials. Artists and researchers include: Eva Smrekar, Eduardo Reck Miranda, Ian Gouldstone, Aarati Akkapeddi, Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm, Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Hannah Jayanti, Sarah Petkus, Mark J. Koch, Mimi Onuoha, Caroline Sinders, LaJuné McMillian, Victoria Vesna and many more.

A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The pollination of flowers by insects, birds and other animals is a fundamentally important ecological function that supports both the natural world and human society. Without pollinators to facilitate the sexual reproduction of plants, the world would be a biologically poorer place in which to live, there would be an impact on food security, and human health would suffer. Written by one of the world’s leading pollination ecologists, this book provides an introduction to what pollinators are, how their interactions with flowers have evolved, and the fundamental ecology of these relationships. It explores the pollination of wild and agricultural plants in a variety of habitats and contexts, including urban, rural and agricultural environments. The author also provides practical advice on how individuals and organisations can study, and support, pollinators. As well as covering the natural history of pollinators and flowers, the author discusses their cultural importance, and the ways in which pollinator conservation has been portrayed from a political perspective. The book draws on field work experiences in South America, Africa, Australia, the Canary Islands and the UK. For over 30 years the author has spent his career researching how plants and pollinators evolve relationships, how these interactions function ecologically, their importance for society, and how we can conserve them in a rapidly changing world. This book offers a unique and personal insight into the science of pollinators and pollination, aimed at anyone who is interested in understanding these fascinating and crucial ecological interactions.

“A brilliant travel guide to the coming world of AI.” —Jeanette Winterson What does it mean to be creative? Can creativity be trained? Is it uniquely human, or could AI be considered creative? Mathematical genius and exuberant polymath Marcus du Sautoy plunges us into the world of artificial intelligence and algorithmic learning in this essential guide to the future of creativity. He considers the role of pattern and imitation in the creative process and sets out to investigate the programs and programmers—from Deep Mind and the Flow Machine to Botnik and WHIM—who are seeking to rival or surpass human innovation in gaming, music, art, and language. A thrilling tour of the landscape of invention, The Creativity Code explores the new face of creativity and the mysteries of the human code. “As machines outsmart us in ever more domains, we can at least comfort ourselves that one area will remain sacrosanct and uncomputable: human creativity. Or can we?...In his fascinating exploration of the nature of creativity, Marcus du Sautoy questions many of those assumptions.” —Financial Times “Fascinating...If all the experiences, hopes, dreams, visions, lusts, loves, and hatreds that shape the human imagination amount to nothing more than a ‘code,’ then sooner or later a machine will crack it. Indeed, du Sautoy assembles an eclectic array of evidence to show how that’s happening even now.” —The Times

Aaron's Code tells the story of the first profound connection between art and computer technology. Here is the work of Harold Cohen - the renowned abstract painter who, at the height of a celebrated career in the late 1960's, abandoned the international scene of museums and galleries and sequestered himself with the most powerful computers he could get his hands on. What emerged from his long years of solitary struggle is an elaborate computer program that makes drawings autonomously, without human intervention - an electronic apprentice and alter ego called Aaron.