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Ageing buildings are a growing problem in Hong Kong and many other major cities, and that can be a hazard. In 2021, for instance, a condominium in Florida collapsed, killing 98 people, following deterioration in its concrete and structure. Hong Kong has seen its own...

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Journalism and storytelling can be a minefield in the age of AI, when it is easier than ever to produce deep fakes and there are vast amounts of information to wade through. But the same technology, when used ethically, can also be harnessed to deepen insights or...

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...