AI, art, and autonomy: an introduction to the Abraham project
Channel: Gene Kogan
Date: 2019-06-13

A brief introduction to the Abraham project to create an autonomous artificial artist, a decentralized AI who generates art.

More info about the project: http://abraham.ai
A draft of the essay: https://tinyurl.com/abraham-ai

Talk originally given June 10, 2019 at School of Machines in Berlin: http://schoolofma.org
Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2012465542394877/

The slides can be viewed here: https://storage.googleapis.com/ml4a.github.io/AAA/Slides_Abraham/index.html

Segments:
1:28 Summary, introduction, about
6:24 Intellectual foundations of this idea
9:04 Criteria for an autonomous artificial artist (AAA)
10:39 Inspiration from nature: emergence, superorganisms, collective intelligence
12:48 A distributed generative art program
13:40 Overview of the technical components
15:40 Generative models
24:12 The collective imagination
27:12 Understanding decentralization
33:06 Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)
35:31 Why decentralizing machine learning is hard
37:04 Problems with the centralized machine learning business model
44:19 Federated learning
47:08 Multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption
48:51 A neural social network
50:24 Properties of AAAs
52:35 Curation and governance mechanisms for DAOs
55:13 Crypto-collectibles and digital art markets
56:11 ArtDAOs
59:45 Overview of the Abraham project & Creations
1:04:50 Abraham community: how to participate