Workshop Day: October 20th, 2024 - FULL DAY
Invited Talk
- When: October 20th, h.09:45 AM
- Speaker: Luc Steels, Royal Flemish Academy of Science (KVAB), Brussels
- Title: What is the price of human creativity?
- Abstract: Generative AI is rolling like a tsunami over the world and its developers claim that anyone is now able to create music, graphics, text or video of human-level quality by giving prompts in human natural language. The results look similar enough to human productions that AI-generated music has become competitive in the cultural market place. The repercussions are far reaching. On the one hand, the human sources of the training data are used without recognition nor remuneration, making the price of human creativity zero for the AI tech companies that build these models. On the other hand, human creators face a significant loss of income making it more difficult, if not impossible, for many of them to continue living from their work. If this steady devaluation of human expertise and creativity is not turned around, we will end up with a steady decay of creative competences and a significant impoverishment of human culture. As technologists, we have a responsibility to work with creatives to tackle these issues and to support the re-valuation of human creativity. The key question is: How?
- Bio: Luc Steels studied linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His main research field is Artificial Intelligence covering a wide range of intelligent abilities, including vision, robotic behavior, conceptual representations and language. In 1983 he became a professor of computer science at the University of Brussels (VUB). He has been co-founder and chairman (from 1990 until 1995) of the VUB Computer Science Department (Faculty of Sciences). He founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris in 1996 and became its first director. Currently he is ICREA research professor at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology(CSIC,UPF). Steels has participated in dozens of large-scale European projects and more than 30 PhD theses have been granted under his direction. He has produced over 200 articles and edited 15 books directly related to his research. During the past decade he has focused on theories for the origins and evolution of language using computer simulations and robotic experiments to discover and test them.
Program
- h.09.30 - 09.45 AM, Workshop Opening - (WS Organizers)
- h.09.45 - 10.30 AM, Keynote – Luc Steels - “What is the price of human creativity?” - (session chairs: Valentina Presutti/Francois Pachet)
- h.10.30 - 11.00 AM, Coffee Break and Networking
- h.11.00 - 12.30 AM, Session 1 - Music and Multimodality - (Session chair: Nicolas Lazzari)
- (15 min. presentation + 3 min. Q&A per paper)
- - Expert-MusiComb: Injective Domain Knowledge in a Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Music Generation
- - Hybrid Symbolic-Waveform Modeling of Music -- Opportunities and Challenge
- - Preserving and Annotating Dance Heritage Material through Deep Learning Tools: A Case Study on Rudolf Nureyev
- - THInC: A Theory-Driven Framework for Computational Humor Detection
- - The influence of audiovisual elements on the realism of generative AI videos: the case of Sora
- h.12.30 AM - 02.00 PM, Lunch and Networking
- h.02.00 - 03.30 PM, Session 2 - Text - (Session chair: Allegra De Filippo)
- (15 min. presentation + 3 min. Q&A per paper)
- - Tempo estimation from symbolic annotations with periodic functions
- - A Perspective on Literary Metaphor in the Context of Generative AI
- - AI Writers and Critics: An Exploratory Study on Creative Content Generation and Evaluation by Large Language Model
- - Adapting Large Language Models to Narrative Content
- - Collaborative Comic Generation: Integrating Visual Narrative Theories with AI Models for Enhanced Creativity
- h.03.30 - 04.00 PM, Coffee Break and Networking
- h.04.00 - 05.15 PM, Session 3 - Images and Others - (Session chair: Lorenzo Stacchio)
- (15 min. presentation + 3 min. Q&A per paper)
- - Image watermarking with a large number of unique messages
- - From Simple to Complex: Extending the Generative Capabilities of Attribute-Based Latent Space Regularization through AR-VAE-Diffusion
- - Swarm Intelligence: A Novel and Unconventional Approach to Dance Choreography Creation
- - The creative psychometric item generator: a framework for item generation and validation using large language models
- h.05.15 - 05.30 PM, Workshop Closing - (WS Organizers)
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