Digital artwork competition sees contestants use artificial intelligence to paint the future of humanity
- Huawei sponsors the event that explores creative uses of its AI diffusion model
- Sci-fi becomes reality as the technology produces thought-provoking works of art
Science fiction often puts artificial intelligence (AI) at the heart of a story, sometimes making dark predictions about machines taking over the world. But a recent competition sponsored by telecommunications giant Huawei shone a more positive light on AI, challenging developers globally to imagine how AI and sci-fi can work in tandem to produce new tech innovations, advance science and co-create literature and works of art.
Recent advancements in AI have allowed the use of generative AI to create content, as shown by the widespread use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
“We should focus on what benefit technology can bring in tackling real-world problems, rather than see it as a source of misfortune,” says Hu Xiaoman, Huawei’s director of MindSpore and AI Platform.
MindSpore is an open-source AI framework for device, edge and cloud scenarios aimed at creating a new AI programming paradigm to make application development and deployment nimbler and more efficient. MindSpore is also a community that grows alongside developers, facilitating knowledge and skill exchanges, as well as new forms of collaboration.
In September, Huawei held the Wukong-Huahua AI Fine-Tuning and Application Competition, themed “Science Fiction and Creativity”. It invited AI developers from around the world to either fine-tune the Wukong-Huahua foundation model to create AI-generated content (AIGC) works, or create applications based on the model.
The Wukong-Huahua foundation model is a diffusion model that can generate images based on Chinese text, and was jointly developed by three Huawei teams, including its Noah’s Ark Lab, Central Software Institute lab and the Ascend Computing Domain. The model combines the MindSpore AI framework with Ascend Atlas’ hardware.
