Synthetic Artwork: Can DLN's be Truly Creative?

Kaggle Days Meetups are a series of events all over the world, created by Kaggle and LogicAI, that aim to gather Kagglers and people interested in Data Science around one city.Join the Kaggle Days Meetup for an evening of food, networking, and discussion, followed by a presentation by Dr. Benjamin Bengfort, Chief Data Scientist of PingThings.

Agenda:6:00 - Doors open. Food & drinks will be served compliments of Stardog

6:25 - General intro

6:30 – Presentation*

7:15 - Q&A + Social

*Can't attend in person? Add the livestream to your calendar: https://vimeo.com/394537204

Talk Abstract:

We live in an age of deep fakes and Go-playing AI that prompts a significant question: can we create a computational method for creativity? The philosophical impacts of such an answer aside, it seems that AI can at least enhance the creative endeavors of humans and deep learning has been used in many artistic endeavors from music to live performance. In this talk, we'll dive into some of the specific methodologies used such as deep dream for creating psychedelic pictures and magenta for generating music. We'll also take a look at non-DLN methods such as evolutionary and genetic algorithms. Hopefully, at the end of this talk, you will be inspired to train models to create artwork of your own!

About the Speaker:

Dr. Benjamin Bengfort is the Chief Data Scientist at PingThings, Inc. in Washington D.C., where he spends his days applying deep neural learning to synchrophasor sensor data in an effort to improve the efficiency and safety of the electric grid. On nights and weekends he can be found working on Yellowbrick — an open source Python package for machine learning diagnostics and interpretation. He's also the author of several books on machine learning including Applied Text Analysis in Python and Data Analytics with Hadoop. Dr. Bengfort earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and is also adjunct faculty at Georgetown University where he teaches new data scientists how to integrate machine learning into their work. If he can sneak away from his computer and the classroom for a few hours, you’re likely to find him in his woodshop or manning the smoker at the neighborhood barbecue (where he'd stake his brisket against an AI any day).About our Sponsors:Stardog:Stardog is a Knowledge Graph Platform designed to connect and query data of any structure. Knowledge graphs are built to represent real-world entities and their complex relationships with one another. Stardog’s enterprise customers include Fortune 500 companies in finance, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media, and government. To learn more about Stardog, visit https://www.stardog.comhatch I.T.hatch I.T. connects local engineers, startups, investors, and corporate leaders who share a common vision of strengthening the startup & innovation landscape in the DMV region. They specialize in software development, mobile development & product design recruitment for commercial product startups & small businesses in the DMV region. To learn more about hatch I.T., visit: https://www.hatchit.io/