With the many advances in AI technology, we’re asking ‘can a computer be creative’, and so more broadly, what is creativity? While we worry about retaining true creativity and ownership, it might not be the point. This podcast looks at how we create and problem solve. Ultimately, the important thing is that we’re thinking about…
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We recently brought you news of a new text generator that’s causing a stir in the tech world because of the understandable caution around AI. However, it’s important to remember the potential, and more than that, fun, that innovation can bring. Here, Rhodri Davies of the Charities Aid Foundation plays with AI to prove that…
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The conversation around the future of work is often about the inevitability of its dominance, but what if we could make working work for us? New ideas, explored here by Will Stronge of Autonomy, a think tank for the future of work, are emerging about the implications of a shorter working week. More space to think,…
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This news from The Guardian shows the potential for AI learning and the importance of managing this powerful and sometimes runaway technology. Taking in massive data sets, far more than a human has time to absorb or could retain, this text generator can then actually creatively simulate. What’s interesting about this story is the recognition…
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It might sound like the old ‘rise of the machines’ argument, but this article goes one further. Focusing on the AI art of Mario Klingemann, we get a chance to explore how we feel about AI as (the true?) creative. Is the idea of machines having an imagination exciting, unjust, irrelevant or merely inevitable? Perhaps…
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Alan Turing‘s question, posed at the dawn of computing, shows that we have a way to go with AI. In this lecture from a series by Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research lab, Alison Gopnik, professor of psychology and an iOi Champion, discusses new ideas about a child’s mind and how to optimise AI learning. She asserts…
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While there’s still a lot of work to do, this is some great news about innovation in the area of communication. Finding a way for computers to understand brain waves and help those who have lost the power of speech due to accident or illness will be invaluable. No one should lose the ability to…
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Too often, albeit with the best of intentions, we can be guilty of prescribing when it comes to young people and their future. Even indirectly, popular culture, science fiction and the news dictates what adults think is important for the next generation. This piece from Nominet is about a fifteen-year-old who’s changing this narrative. It…
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We’ve recently seen how AI can increase empathy, and now a video game might be able to do the same. With the prevalence and central role these games have in children’s lives, they could be an essential route into learning. In the first in a series of pieces on the outlook for AI, Greater Good Magazine…
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Exciting news about our 2019 Cultural Residency, exploring the Imagination Matters theme – Empathy. Each year here at the Institute of Imagination we run a residency inspired by one of our Imagination Matters themes. Through our Imagination Lab in Lambeth, the residencies deliver collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with visitors. Following 2018’s Places to Imagine residency and the wonderful…
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