Register here to reserve your place at CreAItivity – your ticket will also give you access to a full evening programme of events in South Kensington (see below) as part of Night of Ideas 2018: Brave New Worlds
AI is rapidly defying the realms of possibility as computer power breaks new boundaries in fields ranging from brain science, engineering and medicine to art, music and humanities.
AI influences creative endeavors in mimicking the styles of great painters, writing literary prose, making films and music, and developing state-of-the-art cognitive computing experiences that can offer unique tools to benefit and understand humanity.
At this Night of Ideas panel debate leading academics will debate cognition, creativity and artificial intelligence.
- Can human brain capacity be translated into technology?
- Will artificial intelligence (AI) be capable of creativity and imagination?
- How creative can we be in a world of AI?
- How will AI affect Humanities and Art?
Programme
18:00 Exhibition and drinks reception (City and Guilds Building Foyer, Imperial College London).
The exhibition will feature:
- Turing’s Machine – travel back to the genesis of the computer revolution with Marc Raynaud, Professor emeritus of mathematics and inventive practitioner, who will demonstrate a prototype of a Turing Machine in the main entrance.
- Dancing Drones – Jean-Dominique Lauwereins, CEO at BeTomorrow and CTO at Dronisos will showcase a disruptive drone show using drones and dancers
- The AI Film Critic – Decide whether to trust an AI film reviewer as it struggles to make movie recommendations based on our online reviews with Francesca Toni, Imperial College London Professor of Computational logic
- The Painting Fool – decide whether the ‘painting fool’, a computer programme, should be taken seriously – one day – as a creative artist in its own right, with Simon Colton, Professor in Digital Games Technology (Falmouth) and Computational Creativity (Goldsmiths)
- The Drawing Robot – Patrick Tresset, a London based French artist who uses robotics to investigate human artistic activities, will present RNP, his theatrical drawing robot .
- Seeing the future – Pierre-Frederic Jaffre, Chief of Staff, Data and AI, at Microsoft will showcase Microsoft’s app for visually-impaired people, amongst other innovations
19:00 Panel debate – AI and Creativity (Lecture Theatre 200, City and Guilds Building, Imperial College London)
Attendees will be able to hear from:
- Ann O’Dea, Silicon Republic Co-Founder and CEO, Inspirefest Founder
- Prof Simon Colton, Professor of Computational Creativity in the Department of Computing of Goldsmiths College, University of London
- Dr Aldo Faisal, Director of the Brain & Behaviour Analytics Lab, Imperial College London
- François Pachet, Director of Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab
- Prof. Nick Jennings, Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), chair in Artificial Intelligence in the Departments of Computing and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
CreAItivity forms part of Night of Ideas: Brave New Worlds, which will be held in several venues in South Kensington from 4pm to midnight and is based on the theme “Power to the Imagination”.