Artificial Intelligence has become an essential part in our day-to-day life, and with the advancements in this field and how close we got to the Artificial Consciousness it’s getting into all types of digital media and even the film and TV industry. Machines now can author novels, create art, generate videos, act as news anchors, write fiction, compose music and the skies are the limit. Where is AI taking us to future with digital media? Will there become a day that it will totally replace us? What is Digital Creativity and how close it is to our human creativity? How can we deal with a future where all these scary factors are approaching fast? All these topics and more will be the core of the subject of the speech. It’s a conversation long due now and we should initiate it now before it’s too late. My experience in both Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence alongside with my recent research about Artificial Consciousness makes me qualified to carry such a tough conversation and bring it to light. I always say: Machines are NOT coming,they’re already here.

1. %
An Intensive Look into
Future Digital Media with AI

2. About the Speaker
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• Started programming since 9
• Holds a Ph.D in I.T.
• Worked in AI and Cybersecurity for over 7
years
• Working in I.T. field for 20 years
• Passionate about Artificial Intelligence and
the future of humanity with rapid growing
technology

3. Table of Contents
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Topic 1
Artificial Intelligence in a
glimpse
Topic 2
AI advancement. Should we
be afraid
Topic 3
AI as your favorite novelist
and future Storyteller
Topic 4
AI Creates Collection Worth Art
and Music
Topic 5
Fake or remake? The great AI
manipulation.
Chapter 6
Will AI Replace Human
Beings in Creativity?

4. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’S IN A
GLIMPSE
What’s AI is About
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5. When did AI started
The real start of AI started with the first
machine invented by Alan Turing in
1941 that was meant to solve the
German army coded messages during
World War II.
The machine succeeded and the allied
won the war.
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6. What is AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence
demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI)
displayed by humans and other animals. In computer science AI
research is defined as the study of "intelligent agents": any device
that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its
chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term
"artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics “cognitive”
functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as
“learning” and “problem solving”. Wikipedia
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7. What is AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence
demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI)
displayed by humans and other animals. In computer science AI
research is defined as the study of "intelligent agents": any device
that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its
chance of successfully achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term
"artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics “cognitive”
functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as
“learning” and “problem solving”. Wikipedia
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8. THE BIG AI HOAX
What Does People think of AI?
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Source: https://youtu.be/IuS5huqOND4

10. AI Between Fear and Reality
• Fear: AI is pretty much what is depicted in the “Terminator” movie
• Reality: AI has never reached the “full intelligence”. All AI
machines now are “narrow-AI”. They only do one specific task yet
they run it faster, more accurate and more dedicated than we’ll
ever be.
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11. Examples of Narrow AI Supersede Humans
• Alpha GO (AI that beat world class players in the GO game)
• IBM Deep Blue (AI that beat Gary Kasparov in six-game Chess
matches)
• IBM Watson (AI that beat two top human players in the game
“Jeopardy”)
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12. AN AI NOVEL AUTHOR
AI and Literature
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13. Your Favorite Author: Human or AI?
In 2016 a group of Students in Japan create an AI called: “The Day A
Computer Writes A Novel”. Hitoshi Matsubara and his team at Future
University Hakodate in Japan selected words and sentences, and set
parameters for construction before
letting the AI “write” the novel autonomously.
The novel was a finalist in the “Hoshi Shinichi
Literary Award”.
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14. A BEDTIME STORY BY YOUR
ROBOT?
AI Storytellers
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15. AI and Storytelling
Storytelling has always been a keystone in our collective
human culture. It’s a part of who we are and what makes us
unique, also it’s a reason of the advancement in our civilization
and everything we achieved. Storytelling is a key to creativity
and imagination because creating a unique storyline is far
more complicated than constructing the story itself.
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16. Project Scheherazade
Developed by Mark Riedel and colleagues at the
Georgia Institute of Technology / Atlanta, can tell
stories set in any world that it can learn about via
the Internet. Using crowdsourcing platforms like
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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17. Artificial Intelligence and Imagination
What If
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Artificial intelligence can’t imitate human
imagination but we teach AI how
human imagination works?

18. What If
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The
Machine

19. Twist the Tale
The What If Machine is an AI engine that learn to invert the facts that
it knows about the world and twists them to create an imagined
narrative.
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Monkeys LOVE
Bananas
Monkeys are
AFRAID of
BananasWhat if >

20. AI CREATES COLLECTION WORTH
ART
An AI Artist
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21. The AI Artist in You
In 2012 Simon Colton unfurled, from his loft that overlooks one of the
buzzing artistic neighborhoods in Paris France, a group of giant
paintings one after another. One of them called “The Dancing
Salesman Problem”, featuring colorful human figures dancing on a
black background. The painting was created by a piece of software
called the “Painting Fool”, which seeks artistic inspiration and,
arguably, has a rudimentary imagination. Colton confirms that though
he designed the software, he has no influence on its artwork and it
creates its artworks by itself only.
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22. The Painting Fool
A lot of controversy happened after the artworks of the “Painting
Fool” revealed, mostly from the artistic community.
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23. THE AI COMPOSER
Is Mozart for Real?
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24. When AI Writes Music
In 1981 David Cope suffered what we call “composer’s
block” while he was writing an Opera. He was thinking:
what if a computer could understand his style of music
and help him write new material?
He came up with a program called Experiments in
Musical Intelligence (EMI). He fed it with musical
scores. EMI Came up with new material in his style and
also in styles of other computers like Mozart, Bach and
Vivaldi.
The program was face by prejudice from many
musicians and was shut down in 2004.
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25. 3/1/2018 25David Cope’s EMI: Taurus from Zodiac (in the style of Antonio Vivaldi) Source: https://youtu.be/2kuY3BrmTfQ

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27. AI… Can we Believe it’s Real Anymore?
In 2017 Researchers at the University of Washington have
produced a photorealistic former US President Barack Obama.
Artificial intelligence was used to precisely model how Mr Obama
moves his mouth when he speaks.
Their technique allows them to put any words into their synthetic
Barack Obama’s mouth.
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Source: BBC Click. Source: https://youtu.be/AmUC4m6w1wo

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Donald Trump played by John Di Domenico / Recurrent Neural Network run by Janelle Shane. Source: https://youtu.be/EFHyzuqjaok

30. THE BOTS GOT THE SCOOP FIRST
BREAKING NEWS
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31. The Bot got the Shot!
At 6:28 a.m. on March 17th, 2014 the Los Angeles
Times published a story about an earthquake that
had shaken California only three minutes earlier.
The report appeared with the byline of Ken
Schwencke, a programmer and journalist for the
paper. Yet, the credit should go to his computer,
which wrote the story without human input.
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32. Meet Erica the Future News Anchor
A robot called Erica (above) can not only make jokes but also has a
'soul', according to her creator. As well as learning to develop
compassion, Erica is also pipped to be a Japanese news presenter
sometime this year, and could make a national debut in April 2018.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
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33. WILL AI REPLACE HUMAN BEINGS
IN CREATIVITY?
AI to Human
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34. The Conundrum of AI Future
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When AI gets creative, will it replace us as human
beings? Take our jobs? Maybe even end our race
gradually?
No One Knows!

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37. Questions to be Answered
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• Will it be ethical to create then kill a humanized AI?
• Will we be ale to create the a new set of laws that deal with the
current vast and speedy AI advancement?
– (e.g. laws for the autonomous cars)
• Are we going obsolete?

38. THE TWO FACES OF THE
UPCOMING FUTURE WITH AI
A Friend or a Foe
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39. The Bad Face
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• AI Machines are “Power Hungry”, not good for ECO system
• AI is taking too much jobs from humans
• AI learns faster and, unlike humans, the learning process does
not require a “reboot”
• With AI gaining consciousness there are possibilities of an
unpredictable / uncontrolled exorbitant cognitive error.
– Strong / compulsive intent towards a criminal act
– Desire for self-destruction driven by frustration / depression

40. The Good (Friendly) Face
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• AI Can help us fix the Power / ECO problems
• AI created a whole set of new jobs and might help with problems
like unemployment and overpopulation
• AI gained knowledge will be in our use to learn from it
• With AI gaining consciousness there are possibilities of an
extraordinary ability to fix complicated cognitive issues.
– Crime solving will become much easier and more intuitive
– AI could provide therapeutic methods we don’t know yet

41. It’s Up To Us!
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• Create the ethics for future AI development
• Make sure to follow the “Code of Conduct” in AI researches and
studies
• Learn from our human lessons and mistakes and make sure the
AI learns them too
• Be as human as possible

42. Meet Sophia
3/1/2018 42Video by Hanson Robotics. Source: https://youtu.be/LguXfHKsa0c

43. QUESTIONS?
Thank You
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