Can computers be genuinely creative?
We hear on the news every day that software is busy getting creative, producing everything from poetry to (fake) porn, using deep-learned generative neural nets. Join Professor Simon Colton, who’ll draw on more than 20 years of research in the AI subfield of Computational Creativity, to address the question of whether software can be genuinely creative, why this would be a good thing, and what this means for society.
Bio
Simon Colton is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher specialising in the study of Computational Creativity. His research involves the implementation of generative systems within contexts where the software itself takes on creative responsibilities in arts and science projects.He is Professor of Computational Creativity at SensiLab. In this role he will further work that, using these AI implementations as a platform, studies stakeholder issues, human computer interaction, frameworks for assessment of creativity and philosophical issues of Computational Creativity. Simon has led research groups at Imperial College London, Goldsmiths College and Falmouth University in the UK, and currently holds academic appointments at both Monash University and Queen Mary University of London. He has an honours degree in mathematics from the University of Durham, an MSc in pure mathematics from the University of Liverpool, and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. He has also undertaken much public engagement around AI, via art exhibitions, game jams, after school clubs and public speaking.
8:30pm @Horse Bazaar, 397 Lt Lonsdale Street Melbourne VIC 3000.
Also speaking at this location at 5:30pm is Prof Kate Burridge and at 7:00pm is Dr Kate Douglas.
This event is hosted in a venue that is wheelchair accessible.
Please reach out to knowledge@melbourne.vic.gov.au to request an Auslan interpreter for this event.
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