Nigel Crook

Nigel Crook 2024Nigel Crook

Professor of AI and Robotics & Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Oxford Brookes University

Oxford, UK

 

 

About the Presentation

Consciousness, Creativity and Generative AI

  • Generative AI (‘GenAI’) forms the latest in a series of Artificial Intelligence breakthroughs that have rocked the world.
  • Each previous breakthrough has raised challenging questions about what it means to be human.
  • The latest developments in GenAI, however, appear to challenge what is generally recognised as a core element of human nature; namely our creativity.
  • In the past, human creativity has often been cited as what separates us from machines. But now, it seems there is no area of human creativity that is beyond reach for GenAI technology, be that creative writing, artwork, music, video, the creative aspects of science and engineering, or even our ability to converse with other people.
  • In this talk he will give a non-technical explanation of the underlying technologies that endow GenAI with these creative capacities and present a theologically framed case for the distinctive nature of human creativity.

About the Presenter

Nigel Crook is Professor of AI and Robotics and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange at Oxford Brookes University.  He graduated from Lancaster University with a BSc (hons) in Computing and Philosophy in 1982. He has a PhD in explainable intelligent machines and more than 30 years of experience as a lecturer and a researcher in AI. He recently published a book entitled “Rise of the Moral Machine: Exploring Virtue Through a Robot’s Eyes”. He has been interviewed as an expert in AI and robotics on numerous international, national and regional media channels including CNBC Squawk Box, BBC Breakfast, BBC World News and BBC Radio 4. His research interests include biologically inspired machine learning, social robotics, autonomous moral machines and ethical AI. 

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