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Wednesday 9 October 2024, 1700-1930 at Belgrave Postgraduate Centre, Nottingham Trent University.
TIMINGS
1700 - 1730 Get in the room & grab a drink
1740 - 1750 Hello!
1750 - 1820 Guest speaker: Lars Holmquist
Irresponsible AI: Why artists and creatives must take control of this means of generation
Generative artificial intelligence has quickly become an important tool in the creative industries. It is now possible to create high-quality text, images, music and even videos from just a simple text prompt. However, the most accessible AI models are currently firmly in the hands of a few very large companies in the tech industry, who are wary of any controverses that can affect their stock price. While safety and ethics are important, art thrives on uniqueness and breaking boundaries, and there is a danger that when the generative models are controlled and owned by a small number of actors, this will stifle creativity. In the worst case, it can lead to bland and generic outputs, and even become a form of pre-censorship. I will discuss how users of AI, in particular artists and creatives, need to take matters of technology in their own hands – in other words, take control of this means of generation.
1820 - 1830 Question time
1830 - 1930 Hatch plans over nibbles, collaborate & converse with COLLECTIVE. members
Our speaker: Lars Erik Holmquist, Professor of Design and Innovation, Nottingham Trent University
Lars Erik Holmquist is Professor of Design and Innovation at Nottingham Trent University. He is an internationally leading researcher in human-computer interaction (HCI), interaction design and ubiquitous computing (ubicomp). He has published over 100 articles in fields such as HCI, design methods and mobile applications. His work has been presented at major scientific conferences including CHI and SIGGRAPH, and he is the author of 6 granted US patents and 1 granted UK patent. When working in industry, he developed features that were included in Yahoo, Inc’s flagship Yahoo! Search app, reaching millions of users. His book, Grounded Innovation: Strategies for Creating Digital Products, was published by Morgan Kaufman in 2012, and provides a practical guide to the design-driven innovation process, with many examples drawn from his own research and elsewhere.
Before joining NTU he was most recently Professor of Innovation at Northumbria University, School of Design, where he was the recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award and led the Connected Experiences Lab. Previous appointments include Full Professor in Media Technology at Södertörn University; leader of the Future Applications Lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science; leader of the PLAY Research Group at the Viktoria Institute; director of the PLAY Research Studio at the Interactive Institute; and Guest Researcher at Tokyo University in the Human Augmentation Group.
Our Venue: Belgrave Postgraduate Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GG.
The Postgraduate Centre is the new home for our postgraduate, doctoral and executive education community at Nottingham Business School.