Chapter 6: Deep Generative Models

It has always been the dream of mankind to build a machine that can match human ingenuity. While the word intelligence comes with various dimensions, such as calculations, recognition of objects, speech, understanding context, and reasoning; no aspects of human intelligence make us more human than our creativity. The ability to create a piece of art, be it a piece of music, a poem, a painting, or a movie, has always been the epitome of human intelligence, and people who are good at such creativity are often treated as "geniuses." The question that remains fully unanswered is, can a machine learn creativity?

We have seen machines learn to predict images using a variety of information and sometimes even with little information. A machine learning model can learn from a set of training images and labels to recognize various objects in an image; however, the success of vision models depends on their capability for vast generalizations –...