Creative Artificial Intelligence and Emotions

This chapter shows that deep neural networks (DNNs) can creatively generate novel images, text, music, and dialogue. In the case of images, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to create images with specific properties or style features. In addition, they can convert images from one type to another, such as a photo to a painting. For authoring texts, there are language models that can invent new complex stories and formulate them in fluent language. Music DNNs are trained with the notes of musical pieces and can “compose” new pieces of music that experts say achieve good quality. At the end of the chapter, intelligent speech assistants are discussed, which are able to recognize the emotional state of the conversation partner in his or her dialog contributions. They can respond appropriately, providing creative and focused answers so that the counterpart feels understood and is motivated to continue the conversation. In Asia, there are chatbots of this kind with hundreds of millions of users.