The Creative Computer: Sebastian Beswick at TEDxHobart

Wouldn't it be cool if you could sit down in front of a computer and, after showing it what you liked, have it intelligently generate unique works of art based on your own aesthetic preferences?

Sebastian has spent many late nights trying to make this a reality. His research focuses on ways of using artificial intelligence techniques to allow computers to gain an understanding of aesthetic, and eventually produce a system that would allow all composers, regardless of their technical ability, to create beautiful, original sounds.


He graduated from the University of Tasmania with honours in computing in 2012. He has spoken at a number of programming and artistic computing conferences, and currently lives and works as an iOS developer in "sunny" Melbourne.

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