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SUMMARY:SIGGRAPH 2025 Opening Session & SIGGRAPH 2025 Keynote Speaker: Dr.
  Aaron Hertzmann, Can Computers Create Art?
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe)\n\nSIGGRAPH 2025 Opening Session\nThe 
 SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference and ACM SIGGRAPH leadership warmly welcome all at
 tendees and will share valuable insights into the future direction of our 
 industry, setting the stage for an engaging and informative event.\n\nSIGG
 RAPH 2025 Keynote Speaker\nCan AI algorithms make art and be considered ar
 tists? Within the past decade, the growth of new neural network algorithms
  has enabled exciting new art forms with considerable public interest. The
 se tools raise recurring questions about their status as creators and thei
 r effect on the arts. In this talk, Dr. Aaron Hertzmann will discuss how t
 hese developments parallel the development of previous artistic technologi
 es, like oil paint, photography, and traditional computer graphics, with m
 any useful analogies between past and current developments. Dr. Hertzmann 
 argues that art is a social phenomenon — that “AI” algorithms will not hav
 e human-level intelligence in the foreseeable future — and so it is extrem
 ely unlikely that we will consider algorithms to be artists either. Howeve
 r, they, like past art technologies, will change the way we make and under
 stand art, for better and for worse.\n\nRecording: Livestreamed, Not Recor
 ded\n\nRegistration Category: Full Conference, Virtual Access, Experience,
  Exhibits Only, Monday\n\n
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