Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
Event: Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
Date: Monday 17 November 2025
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: FICT Auditorium, ICT Building
Join us for a seminar on creativity and generative AI jointly organised by the Institute of Digital Games and the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the FICT Auditorium on Monday 17 November at 17:00.
Two distinguished international scholars, Dr Christoph Salge and Dr Anna Jourdanous will present their research on Generative AI. This will be followed by presentations of Generative AI research done at the University of Malta by the Institute of Digital Games (IDG) and the Department of AI.
It is an open event, but some knowledge of Generative AI would be beneficial. Attendance is free, but registration is required and available online.
Programme
17:30-18:00
Christoph Salge: Evaluating generative AI content for Quality and Uniqueness
How do we know that something made by an AI is actually good, or at least novel in a meaningful way? In this talk we look at this, both through a technical lens by studying generated Minecraft villages, and with a more conceptual approach of a new theory for generative uniqueness.
Christoph Salge is a Reader in Artificial Intelligence in Games at the University of Hertfordshire. He is generally curious about how AIs an humans can interact, be this in games or the real world, and how a future human-AI society might look. His research interest is in AI in Games, Human Robot Interaction, Artificial Life and Information Theory. He is an avid gamer of board, roleplaying and computer games.
18:00-18:30
Anna Jordanous: Generative AI <> Creative AI …?
It’s been suggested that the ‘final frontier’ of Artificial intelligence is to build AI systems that can be creative. With recent Generative AI advances, have we reached this target, and how can we tell? I’ll discuss the creativity of Generative AI, including the so-called 'creativity parameter’ of temperature, and the challenges we face in assessing how creative current generative AI systems are.
Dr Anna Jordanous is a Reader and Deputy Head of School in the School of Computing at the University of Kent. She is a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) research group. Her research areas include computational creativity and its evaluation, music informatics, digital humanities, knowledge modelling, Semantic Web, and natural language processing.
Primarily she works with computational creativity - the modelling, simulation or replication of creative activities and behaviour using computational means - with a focus on the question of how to evaluate claims of computer software being creative.
18:30-18:45
GenAI Projects by the IDG
18:45-19:00
GenAI Projects by the ICT
19:00-19:30
Dept of AI - GEN AI Demonstrations and Refreshments
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