<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">When:    </font></font></b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Wednesday, November 5th at <b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11 AM CT</font></b></font></font></font></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:    </b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b></span><span class="gmail_default">T</span></font></font>alk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                     TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                     5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Virtually:  </b>via Panopto<b> </b>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6d44d8c1-3c3c-4807-9499-b32800f3d9ac" target="_blank">Livestream</a>) </span><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Who:      <span class="gmail_default"></span>   </font></font></b><span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default"></span>A<span class="gmail_default">aron Hertzmann, </span></font>Adobe Research</font></p></div><div><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Title:        </b>Can Computers Create Art?</font></div><div><p></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Abstract:  </b><span class="gmail_default"></span>Can AI algorithms make art, and be considered artists? Within the past decade, the growth of new neural network algorithms has enabled exciting new art forms with considerable public interest. These tools raise recurring questions about their status as creators and their effect on the arts. In this talk, I will discuss how these developments parallel the development of previous artistic technologies, like oil paint, photography, and traditional computer graphics, with many useful analogies between past and current developments. I argue that art is a social phenomenon, that “AI” algorithms will not have human-level intelligence in the foreseeable future, and thus it is extremely unlikely that we will ever consider algorithms to be artists.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">However they, like past art technologies, will change the way we make and understand art.</font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b><span class="gmail_default"></span>Bio:</b>   Aaron Hertzmann is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Research, and Affiliate Faculty at the University of Washington. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Art at Rice University and a PhD degree in Computer Science from New York University. He was previously a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto for ten years. He has published over 125 papers in computer graphics, AI, and the science of art. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and winner of the 2024 SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">Hos</span><b><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px">t:<span class="gmail_default"> <a href="mailto:shiry@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Shiry Ginosar</a></span></span></b></font></p></div></div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Outreach Administrator </i></b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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