As artificial intelligence and automation innovates, so, it seems, should we. Exercising creative skills allows us to bring to the table what only we can in terms of abstract, free, untaught thinking. This endorsement from the tech industry places much-welcome value on alternative methods of learning and arts education. uniquely human skills John Fallon, Pearson…
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Next up in our exploration of this BBC series is ‘Robots‘. It’s the revolution on everyone’s minds, and believed to be a somewhat inevitable part of our future. However, perhaps more so than with any of the other inventions we’ve learned about, robots’ long history might surprise you. Since ancient times humans have been fascinated…
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At the beginning of August we opened our London-based Mega Maker Lab, a summer experience centred around invention, ideas and play for children and their families. The framework for the project was a collaboration between our Institute of Imagination team, our Imagination Architects and our partners, MATT+FIONA. The Imagination Architects are made up of school…
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Here’s an interesting way of looking at a seemingly simple phenomenon which could be used to revolutionise the way we draw. If architects can use robots to understand the complex kinetics involved in creating the organic circles that humans do, it could have an impact on how they create inspiring spaces. “Movement was always an…
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“BIM Incubator brings together participants from disparate fields of knowledge to think collaboratively about blackness and black culture in relation to architecture”. We love the idea of “scrambling” this architectural, technical acronym to provoke thought and self-expression in new ways as part of Black Imagination Matters. On a humid, grey morning at Princeton in a…
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We read a lot about machines “taking over“, but what’s behind this fear, could it be a lack of trust? We believe in the power of empathy to foster bonds, and it seems a university team in the US is taking this thinking digital. For us it is an important way in which creative thinking…
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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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We’ve talked a lot and often about AI and its emergence into the world of work, and how we’ll co-exist with it. This article from TechRadar looks particularly at the idea of using AI to augment our current processes. Fascinatingly, Isaac Asimov imagined this concept in the 1940s, detailed in his novels. With technology’s rapid…
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Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) have been dominating the conversation around future work for some time, and understandably so. However, as with any change and development, it’s worth taking in all angles on the issue. We’ve been reading this great piece from Wired on why the ‘rise of the machines’ might not mean that the…
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Emotions and AI seem like polar opposites; natural enemies and competitors in the fight between humans and machines. However, some proponents of artificial intelligence are asking us to open up to our robot companions. But this isn’t about us understanding how they work, it’s about increasing the empathy of the machines that convenience our lives.…
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