  Thanks to the Big Data revolution and increasing computing capacities,
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made an impressive revival over the past few
years and is now omnipresent in both research and industry. The creative
sectors have always been early adopters of AI technologies and this continues
to be the case. As a matter of fact, recent technological developments keep
pushing the boundaries of intelligent systems in creative applications: the
critically acclaimed movie "Sunspring", released in 2016, was entirely written
by AI technology, and the first-ever Music Album, called "Hello World",
produced using AI has been released this year. Simultaneously, the exploratory
nature of the creative process is raising important technical challenges for AI
such as the ability for AI-powered techniques to be accurate under limited data
resources, as opposed to the conventional "Big Data" approach, or the ability
to process, analyse and match data from multiple modalities (text, sound,
images, etc.) at the same time. The purpose of this white paper is to
understand future technological advances in AI and their growing impact on
creative industries. This paper addresses the following questions: Where does
AI operate in creative Industries? What is its operative role? How will AI
transform creative industries in the next ten years? This white paper aims to
provide a realistic perspective of the scope of AI actions in creative
industries, proposes a vision of how this technology could contribute to
research and development works in such context, and identifies research and
development challenges.
