Teaching about the Future of Creativity

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) can produce art, videos, stories and other outputs normally associated with creativity. But whether that makes it creative is debatable. Two new Common Core courses, one led by Kathryn Goldstein, Lecturer in the Faculty of...

The Challenge to ‘Creative Cities’

Geographers have long observed that creative economic activities tend to cluster in space. Despite technological advances and books such as The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman, the need for workers to gather in person has persisted, especially for activities...

Protecting Human Creativity from AI’s Grip

Every big AI platform has faced lawsuits for using existing creative works to train their models without permission or compensation, with plaintiffs ranging from Hollywood studios to media outlets to individual artists and authors. For Professor Haochen Sun, Founding...

In the Picture

Books, movies and games that completely absorb one’s attention have long been described as ‘immersive’. But advances in VR production and headset technology are taking absorption to a whole other level.In Encounter Dinosaurs, developed by Hollywood director Jon...

Artists’ Dilemma

Early research on the nascent field of GenAI creativity has produced intriguing but conflicting results. Some have found it inspires artists to push at the boundaries, while others find it homogenises output. Professor Jie Gong and Professor Yulin Fang of the HKU...