SOMABOTICS: CREATIVELY EMBODYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Professor Steve Benford at the University of Nottingham aims to enhance AI to better enable humans to make meaning. His approach explores how people make meaning through art and embodied experience, partnering with award-winning artists to create a series of robotic artworks, from robots that embrace and groom humans, to ones that dance and play music with them. By investigating these systems using an artistic lens he aims to create AI that embraces ambiguity, evokes interpretation, and embraces improvisation. The touring artworks supported through the programme will inspire the creative industries with new forms of cultural experience, while engaging the public to reflect on the future role of AI in society, especially on how it might become more inclusive.
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