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SUMMARY:Computational Creativity: A Different Future for AI Research - Sim
 on Colton - Imperial College
DTSTART:20090520T131500Z
DTEND:20090520T141500Z
UID:TALK17251@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Mateja Jamnik
DESCRIPTION:We usually portray the main purpose of AI research as being to
  produce increasingly intelligent systems which are able to think and act 
 for us. Complimentary to this is the idea that we design increasingly inte
 lligent systems which are able to challenge us\, and rather than thinking 
 for us\, they force us to think more. In the small but friendly field of c
 omputational creativity\, we research how to build autonomously creative A
 I systems which are able to produce artefacts such as stories\, paintings\
 , games\, mathematical theorems\, scientific hypotheses and musical compos
 itions which are of real value to society because - like all good art - th
 ey force us to think more. In the talk\, I will present some of the fundam
 ental issues related to handing over creative responsibility to computatio
 nal systems. To do this\, we will take a more technical look at two long-t
 erm projects from our group which have resulted in creative systems\, name
 ly the HR mathematical theory formation system and The Painting Fool. The 
 former has produced mathematical concepts and theorems of interest to vari
 ous mathematical communities\, and the latter is an automated painter whic
 h we hope will one day be taken seriously as a creative artist in its own 
 right (www.thepaintingfool.com). To highlight the abilities of these syste
 ms\, I will describe some of the sub-projects we have undertaken\, includi
 ng the combination of reasoning systems for the production of algebraic cl
 assification results\; the use of emotion detection for the painting of po
 rtraits\; the use of constraint solving in automated scene construction\; 
 and the mathematical invention of fitness functions for evolutionary searc
 hes related to picture generation. I will also briefly describe some curre
 nt and future projects in the computational creativity group at Imperial (
 www.doc.ic.ac.uk/ccg).
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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