The Neural Aesthetic @ SchoolOfMa, Summer 2016
Course taught by @genekogan
Machine learning for artists
7/4/2016
7/4/2016
- Hype and history of machine learning
- Overview of neural networks
- Applications of neural networks
- Survey of recent ML-inspired artworks
Neural networks
7/5/2016
7/5/2016
- How neural networks work
- Overview of convolutional neural nets
- Visualizing convnets
Convolutional neural networks + t-SNE
7/6/2016
7/6/2016
- How convolutional neural networks work
- Overview of recurrent neural networks
- Embedding images, text, and audio with t-SNE
- Image t-SNE tutorial
Trolley problem, discussion {poor audio}
7/7/2016
7/7/2016
- Trolley problem {poor audio}
- Ethical dilemmas and critical issues in AI
- Democratizing AI research
Wekinator, real-time applications of neural nets
7/18/2016
7/18/2016
- Real-time interaction with ML via Wekinator
- Wekinator examples and modules
- Transfer learning with ConvnetOSC and Wekinator
Applications of convnets
7/19/2016
7/19/2016
- Visualizing convnets and interpreting activations
- Deepdream, style transfer, and other convnet visual applications
- neural-style tutorial
Recurrent neural networks
7/20/2016
7/20/2016
- How recurrent neural networks work
- Applications and artworks with RNNs and LSTMs
- Dense captioninig and advanced architectures
Game AI & reinforcement learning
7/21/2016
7/21/2016
- Reinforcement learning
- Convnets playing Atari games
- DeepBlue and AlphaGo