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As 3D printing becomes increasingly accessible the question isn't "what can we print?" but "what can't we?"

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<h2>The Creative AI</h2>
<p>Humankind has done a great deal in terms of making exquisite art, whether through its paintings, songs, or performance art. Museums are packed with such work, and ordinary people have libraries full of fantastic literary achievements—both physical and digital. For the longest time, creativity seemed like an exclusively human forte.</p>
<p>However, now many budding artists are learning to express their creativity in the realm of artificial intelligence. Recently, AIs have been trying to outperform their human counterparts in a number of endeavors, particularly when it comes to playing games. Google&#8217;s DeepMind proved, on several occasions, that it can go head-to-head against human champions in the ancient Chinese game of Go, while OpenAI recently developed an algorithm that beat professional e-sports players in Dota.</p>
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<p>Creative work is the next arena. Pierre Barreau, CEO of <a href="http://www.aiva.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aiva Technologies</a>, thinks that creativity is no longer an exclusively human quality. AI, like his company&#8217;s <a href="https://futurism.com/a-new-ai-can-write-music-as-well-as-a-human-composer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI music composer Aiva</a>, can display creativity, which Barreau described in an email to <i>Futurism </i>as a combination of inspiration and &#8220;innovation through randomness.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;From Aiva&#8217;s point of view, the inspiration is built up through an extensive training on 15,000 pieces of symphonic music written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and other great composers,&#8221; Barreau said. &#8220;The innovation part comes through randomness, as the systems we build are stochastic by nature. And it’s, by design, very good at innovating, because it can try a lot of very different ideas very quickly.&#8221;</p>
<h2>Collaborative Creativity</h2>
<p>But exactly how creative can AI get?</p>
<p>&#8220;Artificial Intelligence is already creating art,&#8221; said Barreau, who thinks that <a href="https://futurism.com/ai-now-produce-better-art-humans-heres-how/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visual art</a> could be the easiest type of art for AI to manage— <a href="https://futurism.com/these-artists-are-using-googles-deepdream-in-virtual-reality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">like with DeepDream</a>, for example—&#8221;because of the state of the art research that’s published and open-sourced, and also because if you have an abstract picture, it’s easier to attach meaning to it, as opposed to an abstract piece of music or text, where you need to have coherence over a period of time.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We’ve already seen poems from AI pass the Turing test. We’ve seen AI art that’s been scored higher than art made by humans. And now of course, it’s composing music,&#8221; musician and digital storyteller Taryn Southern told <i>Futurism</i> through email. Taryn, whose work includes <a href="https://futurism.com/the-worlds-first-album-composed-and-produced-by-an-ai-has-been-unveiled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the first-ever album composed and produced by an AI called Amper</a>, thinks that advances in machine learning have made it possible for AI to exhibit creativity.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are no limits,&#8221; she added. &#8220;There are many different types of AI, but when you’re working with things like generative adversarial networks, where one network is &#8216;generating&#8217; ideas and the other is using markers to determine if that idea is &#8216;good&#8217; (fits within the defined parameters of how a programmer defines a set of data) — you’re actually mimicking natural neural processes within the human brain.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet, for the most part, it seems that creative AIs are built to work in tandem with human artists, or in the case of MIT&#8217;s <a href="https://futurism.com/a-new-ai-is-writing-perverse-horror-fiction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AI horror storyteller Shelley</a>, at least getting <em>some</em> human input is necessary. &#8220;For me, the future of creation is one where AIs and humans collaborate to create unique art,&#8221; Barreau explained.</p>
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<p>This partnership between an intelligent algorithm and a talented human being is something Taryn is greatly familiar with. &#8220;I do think the future of creative AI is collaborative, if for no other reason that humans are incredible at adapting and synthesizing new information to maintain relevance,&#8221; Taryn said.</p>
<p>However, she believes that &#8220;AI has the potential to be <i>computationally</i> more creative&#8221; because of the way AIs produce creative output, which could translate to greater creative expression. &#8220;In other words, it has greater capacity for experimentation,&#8221; Taryn added. &#8220;But I still believe that it’s years and years of human experience and raw emotion that add more to the big picture, and texture, of a project.&#8221;</p>
<h2>Making Us More Creative</h2>
<p>Wait, so intelligent machines are already taking over human jobs and now AI will also compete with humankind in the arts? Well, not quite. Through this human-AI artistic collaboration, the human element in art will always be present. While it is true that some AI have become as good as human artists— <a href="https://futurism.com/human-or-ai-can-you-tell-who-composed-this-music/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">like DeepBach</a> convincing people that its compositions are by Baroque artist Johann Sebastian Bach himself—both Barreau and Taryn believe that AI artists won&#8217;t replace humans&#8230;at least, not just yet.</p>
<p>&#8220;Personally, I think we should celebrate an AI becoming creative if it doesn’t make us humans irrelevant,&#8221; Barreau pointed out. &#8220;The challenge for companies who create these types of systems is to make sure that they use their product(s) in a responsible manner as they scale. [&#8230;] The whole point of AI is not to replace humans, but rather augment their capabilities (otherwise, we make ourselves irrelevant), especially in use cases where humans alone cannot solve problems.&#8221;</p>
<p>Taryn puts it even further, as she thinks AI will make human artists even more relevant, a point she plans to speak about at a Google AI conference this Thursday. &#8220;So if the AI makes something cool, I think humans almost always collectively find new ways to exploit that or build off of it to do something new,&#8221; Taryn said. &#8220;In a weird way, it’s the technology that becomes irrelevant quickly, not the human.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Exciting times are ahead, indeed, but Taryn said it&#8217;s only to be expected that this kind of AI will ruffle some feathers and upset human artists, particularly in the music industry. &#8220;It’s all [&#8230;] evolving so fast, it’s tough to not be afraid of big change,&#8221; she said. Instead of fearing AI artists, however, one should perhaps consider them to be opportunities for even greater creativity. &#8220;I’m confident we’ll actually see an exponential rise in creativity as a result of AI.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked about how far AIs could and should pursue creativity, Taryn replied: &#8220;We’ve always had been fearful of new tech, but the reality is, we can’t stop it. My advice to people is to learn how to accept change and embrace it. There are no guarantees in life and tech is moving at an exponential pace. So it’s good to just have a buddhist mindset about all of this and look at the positives.&#8221;</p>


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<h2>Opportunity in Automation</h2>
<p><a href="https://tmrwedition.com/2017/02/26/chances-are-artificial-intellience-can-already-do-your-job-better-than-you-can/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Automation will force most people out of a job</a> and society will eventually be forced to adopt some form of universal basic income. What then? What are people going to do when they no longer have to work?<figure style="width: 360px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://futurism.com/images/age-automation-welcome-next-great-revolution/"><img src="https://wp-assets.futurism.com/2016/02/home_v1.jpg" alt="The Age of Automation: Welcome to the Next Great Revolution" ></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text center"><strong><a href="https://futurism.com/images/age-automation-welcome-next-great-revolution/" target="_blank">Click to View Full Infographic</a></figcaption></strong></figure></p>
<p>Initially, it seems like a nice problem to have as it will free people to do what they really want to do with their lives. But we define ourselves by how we contribute to society, for most people their career is the answer to who they are and what they do.</p>
<p>Some will spend all that extra time doing more of the things they already do with their free time: surfing the internet, watching movies and TV shows, and playing video games.</p>
<p>But there is an opportunity this future we are quickly hurtling towards will also create. Rather than just being passive consumers of content, people will all be able to become active participants in content creation.</p>
<h2><strong>More User Created Experiences</strong></h2>
<p>YouTube is the world’s third most visited site after Google(which also owns YouTube) and Facebook. <a href="http://www.statisticbrain.com/youtube-statistics/">300 hours of video</a> are uploaded to YouTube every minute, and 3.25 billion hours of video are watched <a href="http://www.statisticbrain.com/youtube-statistics/">each month</a>. Gone are the days when we rely solely on giant studios and networks for our entertainment as increasingly people are turning to other people for content.</p>
<p>Online content creation has become an industry unto itself as the number of YouTube channels earning six figures has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/en-GB/statistics.html">increased by 50% </a>year on year. Digital marketplaces for a wide variety of content creators <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/speed101/the-future-of-work-with-digital-marketplaces" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">are coming online</a> allowing anyone who wants to become a digital entrepreneur.</p>
<p>This will impact how individual value is measured. Your worth will no longer come from the company you work for or the degree you have but by the popularity of your creations. A history of producing things people want will be all that has value.</p>
<h2 class="fluid-width-video-wrapper"><strong>The On-Demand Model</strong></h2>
<p>Passive consumption will also continue to grow and will become even more appealing and addictive than it is today.</p>
<p>98 million people now have Netflix accounts and that number is growing rapidly. The company got here by understanding the importance of creating easy and addictive user experiences. They started in 1997 selling home deliver DVDs and in 2007 switched to become the go-to live streaming on-demand platform that has made them the largest internet television network in America.</p>
<p>However their plan is to become the biggest entertainment network on earth and to get there Netflix is now harnessing artificial intelligence to customize their user interface to fit each person’s unique tastes. Here is CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings in a talk titled “leveraging AI to make user experience &amp; entertainment addictive”.</p>
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<h2 class="fluid-width-video-wrapper">Augmented Social Media</h2>
<p>Facebook just launched what they are calling ‘Act 2’, which is going to take the social media giant away from its core product, social media, and refocus its efforts on augmented reality and artificial intelligence.</p>
<p>In a talk on April 18th Mark Zuckerberg outlined his vision for the future of Facebook. He simultaneously launched the beta version of Facebook’s new augmented reality tool that will leverage their social media platforms; Facebook, Whatsapp, Snapchat and Instagram, to create <a href="https://tmrwedition.com/2017/03/07/silicon-valley-is-fueling-the-push-for-global-governance-and-the-end-of-the-nation-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the communities he has been talking about a lot lately</a>.</p>
<p>Underlying all of the augmented reality applications, as well as the new messaging service and the new VR social media platform that they are also rolling out is machine learning algorithms (AI). Zuckerberg stated in his address that the application of AI to all that Facebook is doing will eventually allow the platform to replace all of the hardware in the real world with digital versions of them that look and feel just as real.</p>
<p>Another critical part of this plan is to make these platforms open and allow for anyone who wants to contribute to the creation of all the content that will go into them.</p>
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<p>Already having <a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/article/investing-in-video-games-this-industry-pulls-in-more-revenue-than-movies-music-cm634585" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">surpassed the film and music industries combined</a>, video games are poised to grow even faster in the decade to come with the rise of virtual and augmented reality. The continued rise of E-gaming and live stream gaming platforms like Twitch will further this trend, already last year <a href="https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/06/more-people-watched-league-of-legends-than-the-nba-finals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">more people watched the league of legends finals than the NBA finals</a>.</p>
<h2><strong>Immersive Artificially Intelligent Entertainment</strong></h2>
<p>The biggest game changer will eventually come from immersive artificially intelligent entertainment. Once AI becomes good at writing novel code it will be able to create virtual experiences that can be crafted to each user, writing movies for you as you watch them and writing games for you as you play them, making it possible that no two people will ever play the same game or watch the same movie.</p>
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<h2 class="fluid-width-video-wrapper"> <strong>What Kind of Future is All of This Creating?</strong></h2>
<p>For those that recognize and take advantage of all these changes it means a shift away from passive consumption to active selection of entertainment and the ability to participate in the creation of content.</p>
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<p>For those that don’t adjust and get stuck in the passive consumption model of the past the future will probably look something like this.</p>
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