{"id":231,"date":"2020-11-19T11:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T09:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2020-11-19T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T15:14:38","slug":"georgy-ananov","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/georgy-ananov\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgy Ananov &#8211; Non-human imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We often think of imagination as something distinctly human. Some even claim that our imagination is exactly what sets humans apart from the machines.&nbsp;With this project I wanted to take a look at some of the ways in which an AI can be imaginative. The video below aims to mimic the process of a human reading a passage of text and imagining how the character described in the passage might look like, and how their appearance might change throughout the story. Except here, the one &#8220;reading&#8221; the text and &#8220;imagining&#8221; the character is not a human at all.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-1-1 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"N\u043en-human imagination\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/480975441?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Tools and resources used:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Text tone analysis from https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/watson\/services\/tone-analyzer\/<br><br>Input text from &#8220;The Destructors&#8221; by Graham Greene<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Animation created with artbreeder.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Audio created with http:\/\/www.fromtexttospeech.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Audio and video merging done with Avidemux<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often think of imagination as something distinctly human. Some even claim that our imagination is exactly what sets humans apart from the machines.&nbsp;With this project I wanted to take<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/georgy-ananov\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Georgy Ananov &#8211; Non-human imagination<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artxai.uwas.aalto.fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}