Event overview
Discover how Georgia Tech’s Adaptive Digital Media Lab is building artificially-intelligent agents which engage in creative collaborations with their human counterparts.
Brian Magerko introduces current research projects at Georgia Tech’s Adaptive Digital Media Lab that build co-creative AI agents which engage in creative collaborations with human counterparts.
Spanning dance, theatre, abstract drawing, and pretend play, this research focuses on how to build co-creative Artificial Intelligence without explicitly representing a library of ‘creative moves’ in the particular domain.
We instead ask how creativity can be represented procedurally and how it can be represented as a learning process in order to design intelligent agents that are unfettered by the authoring bottleneck that is so common in computational creativity. This presentation will give concrete examples of we have designed agents for these different creative domains based on design challenges, empirical studies of human creativity, and reflective practice.
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Brian Magerko is an Associate Professor of Digital Media & head of the Adaptive Digital Media (ADAM) Lab at Georgia Tech. He received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from Carnegie Mellon (1999) and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan (2001, 2006). His research explores the intersection of creativity, cognition, and computing. This interdisciplinary work leads to studying creativity and human cognition, building artificial intelligence systems that can creatively collaborate with human users, and exploring the use of human creativity as a gateway to better understanding how to effectively teach computing skills. Much of this work results in cutting edge digital media experiences in digital games, interactive narrative, and educational media.
Dr. Magerko has been research lead on over $5 million of federally-funded research, has authored over 60 peer reviewed articles related to cognition, creativity, and computation, has had his work shown at galleries and museums internationally, and his learning environment for computer science with computational music remixing (in collaboration with Dr. Jason Freeman) - called EarSketch - has been used by tens of thousands of learners.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Jun 2015 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
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