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Magic Tricks Created Using Artificial Intelligence For the First Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pick-a-circuit-any-circuit dept.

An anonymous reader writes Researchers working on artificial intelligence at Queen Mary University of London have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers gave a computer program the outline of how a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind reading card trick work, as well the results of experiments into how humans understand magic tricks, and the system created completely new variants on those tricks which can be delivered by a magician.

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  1. AI? They taught it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    If you've "taught" the computer to do something, then it is not artificial intelligence.

  2. Great plot by Thanshin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    AI is made to invent magic tricks.
    AI starts creating more and more complex magic tricks.
    Magician stops understanding the tricks but keeps following the given steps and is as surprised as the audience about the result.
    After a while, the AI starts giving really strange steps and it becomes clear that there is no explanation in current science that justifies the results of the tricks.
    Humanity has meddled with incomprehensible forces, awakening He who was never dead.