Join our friends at Science & the Arts and The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences for a lecture on creative machines by Arthur I. Miller. What is creativity? Is it the same in humans and machines? Machines running programs like AlphaZero, DeepDream, GANs and radical new developments like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and Dalle-2 have shown creativity, opening up new vistas in AI-created art, music, and literature.  Machines can create art, but are they artists? In the future will there be machines with consciousness and emotions, machines capable of falling in love? Will this lead to a world where machines and ‘humans’ will co-exist? Sponsored by Science & the Arts, The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, and Art Science Connect.

Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London.  He is a CCNY Physics graduate, and was awarded the PhD from MIT.  In 1991, after faculty positions at U of Massachusetts and Harvard, he became Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London.  He is the author of a groundbreaking theory of creativity which applies to both humans and machines. He has written many critically acclaimed books, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Einstein, Picasso. Other books include: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc; 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession; and The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity. http://www.arthurimiller.com/ In 2022 he wrote a science-based play Synchronicity about physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychoanalyst Carl Jung which was developed and performed by Break A Leg Productions in New York.