Avery Slater
October 14th, 11:30am-12:30pm, Baker Laboratory 135
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Avery Slater is an assistant professor with the University of Toronto's Department of English and a faculty fellow with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Her research focuses on contemporary questions emerging at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities, with an emphasis on twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetics. Her work has recently appeared in the New Literary History, Symplokē, Cultural Critique, and other journals.
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AI and Creativity
This talk will deal with the aesthetic and ethical implications of mechanic creativity from the perspective of the humanities. While creativity and artistic origination have historically been tied to art’s social value, AI art has recently begun to sell for high prices, and the promise of automating artistic production heralds new sectors of economic profit. Yet AI creativity also highlights the changing status of human innovation. This talk explores how research in the field of computational creativity will benefit from more robust appreciation of the nonhuman qualities of AI’s creativity. AI’s ever-expanding capabilities raise urgent questions of how to relate to a technology that, in many senses, invents itself.
This talk will deal with the aesthetic and ethical implications of mechanic creativity from the perspective of the humanities. While creativity and artistic origination have historically been tied to art’s social value, AI art has recently begun to sell for high prices, and the promise of automating artistic production heralds new sectors of economic profit. Yet AI creativity also highlights the changing status of human innovation. This talk explores how research in the field of computational creativity will benefit from more robust appreciation of the nonhuman qualities of AI’s creativity. AI’s ever-expanding capabilities raise urgent questions of how to relate to a technology that, in many senses, invents itself.
Ryan Calo
October 15th, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Emerson Hall 135
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Ryan Calo is a professor at the University of Washington School of Law and holds adjunct appointments at the UW Information School and the Paul G. Allen School of Computing Science and Engineering. Professor Calo's research on law and engineering technology appears in leading law reviews (California Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Columbia Law Review) and technical publications (MIT Press, Nature, Artificial Intelligence) and is frequently referenced by the national media. Professor Calo has testified three times before the United States Senate and organized events on behalf of the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Obama White House.
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Public Interest Technology Across Disciplines
Ryan Calo has spent his career thinking about interdisciplinarity. In the past ten years, he co-founded two interdisciplinary research organizations (UW Tech Policy Lab and UW Center for an Informed Public) and a leading conference on robotics and artificial intelligence law (We Robot). He is currently chairing a campus-wide task force on technology and society at the University of Washington. Come hear Professor Calo talk over Zoom about the rewards and challenges of working across disciplines in furtherance of public interest technology.
Ryan Calo has spent his career thinking about interdisciplinarity. In the past ten years, he co-founded two interdisciplinary research organizations (UW Tech Policy Lab and UW Center for an Informed Public) and a leading conference on robotics and artificial intelligence law (We Robot). He is currently chairing a campus-wide task force on technology and society at the University of Washington. Come hear Professor Calo talk over Zoom about the rewards and challenges of working across disciplines in furtherance of public interest technology.
