Workshop on Creativity & Generative AI

Join us for the 2024 Workshop on 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 is co-located with the NeurIPS 2024 conference, a large annual AI conference, and will take place in Vancouver, Canada.

Important Dates

Event	Date
Submission Deadline	September 12, 2024
Final Decisions	October 9, 2024
Workshop Date	December 14 and 15, 2024

Schedule

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

Saturday

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)/Presenter(s)	Location
8:45-9:00	Intro / Opening Remarks		201 room (NeurIPS) + Online
9:00-9:15	Invited Talk	Jillian Arnold	201 room (NeurIPS) + Online
9:15-9:45	Invited Talk	Kelly McKernan	201 room (NeurIPS) + Online
9:45-10:15	Coffee Break		201 room (NeurIPS)
10:15-11:15	Pannel on AI & Copyright	A. Feder Cooper, Edward Lee, Ben Brooks, Jillian Arnold, Kelly McKernan	201 room (NeurIPS) + Online
11:15-11:45	Contributed Talks		201 room (NeurIPS) + Online
11:45-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:00	Poster Session		201 room (NeurIPS)
14:00-14:15	Break / Move to Pinnacle Hotel
14:15-14:45	Invited Talk	Ted Chiang	Pinnacle Hotel + Online
14:45-15:30	Coffee Break / Icebreaker		Pinnacle Hotel
15:30-16:00	Mini Talks	Carl Kwoh, Jingna Zhang	Pinnacle Hotel + Online
16:00-17:30	Round Table Discussions		Pinnacle Hotel + Online
17:30-17:45	Closing Remarks		Pinnacle Hotel + Online
18:00-21:00	Dinner		Pinnacle Hotel

Sunday

Time	Topic	Speaker(s)/Presenter(s)	Location
9:00-14:00	Detailed schedule to come…		Pinnacle Hotel

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.

A. Feder Cooper is a scalable machine-learning (ML) researcher, co-founder of The GenLaw Center, and an incoming Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Cooper's contributions span uncertainty estimation, privacy and security of generative-AI systems, distributed training, hyperparameter optimization, and model selection. Cooper also does work in tech policy and law, and spends a lot of time finding ways to effectively communicate the capabilities and limits of AI/ML to interdisciplinary audiences and the public

Ben Brooks is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard, where he scrutinizes the regulatory and legislative response to AI models. Previously, he served as Head of Public Policy for Stability AI, custodian of Stable Diffusion, and drove regulatory development efforts at GoogleX, Uber, and Coinbase, working with authorities on the ground in over 25 countries.

Professor Edward Lee is a professor at Santa Clara Law and the founder of ChatGPTiseatingtheworld.com. His current research focuses on the ways in which AI, blockchain, and other disruptive technologies challenge existing legal paradigms.

Jillian Arnold is a recording and workflow engineer for live tv (Emmys, VMAs, Oscars etc). She is the president of local 695 - sound, video and projection and the IATSE AI negotiations subcommittee chair.

Jingna Zhang is the founder of Cara, a social and portfolio-sharing app for artists and fans with more than a million users in its beta. Prior to Cara, Jingna was an award-winning fashion and fine art photographer for magazines like Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar, the founder of an esports team in StarCraft II, and a Singapore Olympic team candidate in air rifle. She works at the intersection of art and technology, advocating for creative rights and responsible AI development.

Carl Kwoh is CEO of Jam & Tea Studios, making games with generative ai as an engine for Improvisational Play between players. He's worked in the games industry for 20+ years at companies like Riot Games, Popcap Games, and Phoenix Labs

Accepted papers

Accepted artworks

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