CTW2019 Panel: Making Machines Creative
Channel: Creative Tech Week
Date: 2019-05-23

A panel held at the Creative Tech Week CTW2019 Conference on May 10 at the NYIT Auditorium on Broadway. Can machines ever be as creative and artistic as humans? It’s been said that creativity is one of the aspects that makes us human, and that it’s unachievable for computers. Is it justifiable to view creativity as a delineating boundary between humans and computers? If so, when will that boundary be crossed – or has it been already? What processes are today’s artists using to make machines creative, and what joys and hazards do they encounter with their efforts? Should we be looking out for any potential pitfalls as machines learn to make and identify art? How can AI and machine learning help us as art-viewing humans?
Panelists: Scott Draves, software artist; Gene Kogan, software artist; Kat Mustatea, artist, technologist and TED residen; Mauro Martino, software artist, professor at Northeasterns University and Founder and Head of the Visual Artificial Intelligence Lab at IBM Research. Moderator: Noelle LaCharite, Principal Product Manager for Enterprise Voice Cortana at Microsoft. Conference produced by Isabel Walcott Draves.