Beats

Children enthral audience with traditional beats

by

The first batch of students from Vadhya Vidhyalayam gave their first public performance of panchavadhyam and pancharimelam — traditional orchestra forms of Kerala — at the Mahalingapuram Ayyappan Guruvayurappan temple on Saturday. Their performance left the audience enthralled and asking for more. “I never knew that he would be so interested in this art form … Read more

Machine Creativity Beats Some Modern Art

by

Creativity is one of the great challenges for machine intelligence. There is no shortage of evidence showing how machines can match and even outperform humans in vast areas of endeavor, such as face and object recognition, doodling, image synthesis, language translation, a vast variety of games such as chess and Go, and so on. But when … Read more