Researchers have made significant progress in teaching machines perception, reasoning, and language in recent years, but teaching AI to be creative and to generate aesthetic attributes is a different open challenge because of how subjective these areas are. “It adds a layer of creativity, because you can visualize a dance in a different form.” This is an important milestone in a research field that holds huge potential in the near future: creative AI.

“The AI generates new sequences of movements that might not have come naturally to people,” says Parikh. Since the system’s only computational constraint is ensuring that its movements synchronize with the music, it is able to generate novel dance routines, which human judges have evaluated as highly creative in comparison to other generated dances. The system’s code, which is now available for download, works by detecting quantifiable similarities in a song at two different points in time, then searching for similar mathematical patterns in a giant matrix of dance move sequences. A system co-created by Research Scientist Devi Parikh analyzes a music track from nearly any genre and, just moments later, cooks up some synchronized moves. There are times when they struggle to put together dance routines and movement sequences that are creative and compelling, and yearn for a flash of inspiration.įacebook’s AI researchers have developed an AI system that can provide those eureka moments - all you have to do is play the music. You’ve probably heard of writer’s block, when authors mysteriously hit a creative impasse in their work, but not many people know that dancers and choreographers suffer from a similar affliction. Human evaluators say that the AI’s dances are more creative and inspiring than meaningful baselines. That’s because it uses finely tuned search procedures to stay synchronized and surprising, the two main criteria of a creative dance. It’s not just imitating human dance movements it’s creating completely original, highly creative routines. Facebook AI researchers have developed a system that enables a machine to generate a dance for any input music.

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