Presentation synopsis 演說簡述

This talk will focus on AI creativity in the field of art, with a focus on music. Creativity is one of the most important human qualities, which we not only need in our daily lives, but which has also been responsible for the enormous achievements in science and art in human history.

The ability of modern AI systems to perform tasks that are considered highly creative (such as music composition, writing texts and stories, or image generation) shows the potential of these systems to support the human creative process in the near future.

This talk will first give an overview of the technical background of AI-based creative systems in the field of music and text generation. Considering the technical architecture of these systems, we will take a closer look at the creative aspects of the systems and compare them to human creativity. It also explains other aspects that play an important role in the human creation of art and music: Aspects such as human intention, which seems to be crucial for any kind of creation, especially for the creation of art and music. And also, the question of AI autonomy and whether it is helpful for the creative process with humans or whether it even rather inhibits creativity.

是次演說將重點討論在藝術領域上人工智能的創造力，而重點是音樂。創造力是人類最重要的品質之一，不單單用於日常生活，亦成為在人類歷史上科學與藝術領域上巨大成就是原因。現代的人工智能系統已經有能力完成被認為是高度創意的工作(包括作曲、編寫故事及文本、又或生成圖像等)，這表明在不久的將來這些系統可以支持人類的創作過程。

演說中會概述基於人工智能的創音系統在音樂和文本生成領域中的技術背景，又考慮到這些系統的技術架構，我們將仔細研究這些系統的創造性，並將其與人類的創造性進行比較。這也解釋了其他面向在人類創作藝術與音樂的過程中起了重要作用，例如人類的意圖，這似乎對任何的創作都極其重要，尤其是藝術及音樂的創作。還有的就是人工智能的自主問題，以及它是否對人的創作過程有所裨益，又或且它是否倒過來在壓抑了創造力。

亞歷山大‧曼科維斯基1957年生於柏林，在柏林自由大學修讀社會科學、心理學及哲學。經過4年在幫助問題兒童的社會服務部門工作後，他決定追隨時代思潮以研究生身份考進一所大學，專注人工智能。他喜歡用OOS及Prolog編程，並為自己贏得「知識工程師」的程號。自1989年起亞歷山大曾於Daimler-Benz AG的研究部門工作， 一開始時是專注於研究汔車在社會發展的趨勢。此舉令他在2001年發展至現時的工作 – 未來學家；他專注於預測理想的未來，將社會和科技創新與前衛藝術概念相互結合。他是奧地利Ars Electronica的科學、技術和藝術 (STARTS EU)評審會的長期成員，也是future/io (一個關乎創新指數及理想未來的智囊團)的成員。