NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Creativity & Generative AI

We are happy to announce the inaugural NeurIPS 2024 workshop Creativity & Generative AI: A dialogue between machine learning researchers and creative professionals. In the wake of a disruptive year of advances in generative AI, we are bringing together the two communities for much-needed conversation.

We will provide a forum to voice the concerns and proposals of creative professionals, highlight existing efforts and jump-start new initiatives to empower creative communities, and foster mutual understanding and collaboration. Speakers and participants will include people who have a technical background in machine learning, as well as creative professionals who can speak to their experiences with generative AI.

The workshop will include:

papers, posters, and talks with technical contributions and broader perspectives
exhibition of artwork that critically engages with the use of AI in creative endeavors and sparks conversations about our relationship with AI
panels and round table discussions to foster mutual understanding and collaboration.

The workshop will take place in Vancouver, Canada. We are currently exploring options for virtual participation.

Important Dates

We have extended the submission deadline for papers and creative work (previously September 2).

Event	Date
Submission Deadline	September 12, 2024
Final Decisions	October 9, 2024
Workshop Date	December 14, 2024

Schedule

The following schedule is tentative and will be confirmed closer to the workshop:

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)/Presenter(s)
9:00-9:15	Intro
9:15-9:45	Invited Talk 1	TBA
9:45-10:15	Invited Talk 2	TBA
10:15-10:45	In Conversation	TBA
10:45-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:00	Contributed Talks (4x15min)	TBA
12:00-14:00	Lunch Break & Poster Session
14:00-14:30	Invited Talk 3	TBA
14:30-15:00	Invited Talk 4	TBA
15:00-15:30	Invited Talk 5	TBA
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Panel Discussion	TBA
17:00-18:00	Round Table Discussions	TBA

Keynote Speakers

Ted Chiang is an American science fiction writer. His work has won four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and six Locus awards. He has published the short story collections Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) and Exhalation: Stories (2019). His short story "Story of Your Life" was the basis of the film Arrival (2016). He is also a technical writer and frequent non-fiction contributor to The New Yorker magazine, especially on topics in computing such as artificial intelligence.

Anna Huang is a Research Scientist at Magenta in Google DeepMind, specializing in generative models and human-AI partnerships in music creation. She developed Coconet, powering Google's first AI Doodle, and Music Transformer, a pioneering model for long-term music generation. She holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila, serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Montreal, and has been involved in the AI Song Contest. Her research focuses on designing interactive generative AI systems to enhance music creation, emphasizing interpretability, explainability, and social reinforcement learning.

Panelists

TBA

Organizers

Advisors

Call for Papers and Creative Work

The submission portal for both calls is here.

Call for Papers

We invite participants to submit 2-page papers in the NeurIPS camera-ready format (with author names visible) at our submission portal by 11:59pm September 12, AoE. References and any supplementary materials provided do not count as part of the 2-page limit. However, it will be at the reviewers’ discretion to read the supplementary materials.

We invite both technical contributions related to building tools aligned with the values and needs of creative professionals, as well as perspectives on broader issues in the field. Here is a non-exhaustive list of topics:

Design of interactive, human-in-the-loop generative AI systems
Detection of plagiarism and copying in image and text generation
Tools to protect content creators from unwanted training
Representational biases in training data and their effects
Detection of AI-generated content and methods of evading detection
Benchmarking “creativity” in generative AI systems
Theories of data governance, provenance, and leverage
Proposals for data licensing for AI training, especially for creative applications
Surveys of attitudes and practices of creative professionals regarding generative AI
Discussion of generative AI from legal, ethical, economic, or other perspectives

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors of accepted papers are invited to present a poster on their work in the poster session. A small number of papers may be selected for an invited talk.

Submissions that have appeared in the main NeurIPS 2024 conference are allowed. Otherwise, submissions cannot have previously appeared in conferences or journals. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop website, but the workshop will not have official proceedings.

Call for Creative Work

We invite creative submissions of all forms, including (and not limited to) visual art, writing, music, film, games, mathematics, and performance, that critically engage with the use of AI in creative endeavors. The work itself can be generated with or without AI tools, and can be “proof-of-concept”. We especially look for work that puts generative AI in context within the creative process, shows new ways of collaborating creatively with AI, and sparks conversation about our relationship with AI. Artwork will be judged based on both artistic merit and on thematic relevance. Submit at our submission portal by 11:59pm September 12, AoE.

While registration is required to attend the workshop, it will not be required to have accepted artwork. A small number of creators may be selected to give an invited talk.

If your work is selected for inclusion in the program, you grant us non-exclusive rights to publish and reproduce the artwork. By submitting, you affirm that you are the author of the work and have the authority to grant these rights (inasmuch as possible given possible AI-assisted creation).

All submissions will be considered for a up to $200 prize to recognize outstanding contributions to the exploration of AI in art.

Please indicate whether the work has previously appeared in other venues (including online) or is currently being reviewed elsewhere. We will prioritize original submissions which have not previously appeared in other venues.

Submissions should consist of the following, placed within a single .zip folder of at most 100MB:

Required: At least one of the following
- A single file consisting of the artwork, named artwork_name_main (with appropriate file extension). (Replace artwork_name with the title of the piece.)
- For works that are not film, you may submit a video of at most 1 minute demonstrating the artwork, named artwork_name_video.mp4; we recommend this for works that cannot easily be presented electronically, for example, a physical interactive experience.
Required: A description to accompany the artwork of at most 2 pages, named artwork_name_description.pdf. We recommend using the same format as in the call for papers. The description should include the title, artist bios, and how AI was used in the creation of the work (if it was used). This can include a description of the creation process or discussion of themes, and will be taken into account when evaluating the submission.
Optional: You may submit additional files named artwork_name_supplementary_1, artwork_name_supplementary_2, etc. Note that the submission will primarily be judged by the merit of the main piece, and we will include any supplementary work in the program at our discretion.

If you are not able to submit your piece conforming to the above format, please get in touch with us with a description of your work, and we can arrange an alternative way for you to submit. For example, we may ask you to submit a link if it is an interactive piece hosted on a web server. Submissions not adhering to the above guidelines will be accepted only when cleared with us.

Contact

Contact the organizers at creativity.ai.neurips@gmail.com