Term 2

After a busy holiday attempting (very slowly) to teach myself Python Code, it's back to research and development in the first week of term at Huddersfield.... first off I came across an interesting development in the use of CAN networks to develop art which "does not fit the known artistic styles"  as opposed to pieces previously developed by GAN networks to imitate known artists and styles!
The report says" “The results [of our study] show that human subjects could not distinguish art generated by the proposed system from art generated by contemporary artists and shown in top art fairs.”
This is obviously an interesting development for modern art and creativity, and continues to reinforce the question of What is Creativity? if a unique human like artwork is generated, does the provenance/influences/backstory actually matter?

these findings appear to be in direct contrast to this article which claims that arts degrees may have more value in the "new world" as robots and AI take over more obviously automatable work, leaving creativity and innovative thinking as gaps that will still need filling by humans... it's hard to tell how much of either prediction is sensationalism and opinion as they are obviously just that, predictions... but they certainly pose interesting areas for me to research and develop as part of my investigations...