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Detective Spooner: Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a… canvas into a beautiful masterpiece? 

Sonny: Can *you*? 

Could AI create an artistic masterpiece? Gareth Hallberg, from Sussex university is already planning a public engagement activity to investigate this very question. The plan is to set up an exhibition in Brighton sometime around August/September. Bringing together a collaboration of artists and AI researchers they will be questioning the creative process. Focusing on the difference between “p-creatives”, those that can be creative within an existing field of study, and “h-creatives”, those that can define entirely new conceptual spaces, it promises to be a fascinating exhibition.

simon’s tweets

  • Laptop's arrived and all of my results are going the right way. Today is a good day. 5 days ago
  • Someone's just written a Latex Robot for Google Wave -http://bit.ly/4m9DCD - suddenly there's some potential for academic collaboration. 1 week ago
  • @sinjax if you like xkcd check out deb roy's work at MIT - years of recorded interactions visualised on one screen. Beautiful stuff. 1 week ago
  • According to Sheffield uni my fellowship has 7000yrs left to run. I have to admit I'm impressed by their commitment to long term research. 2 weeks ago
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