11 A pioneering project that blends art with technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), seeks to disrupt how we create, receive, and respond to art, advancing the frontiers of art technology. HKUST Provost Prof. GUOYike leads a multidisciplinary research team, including Prof. XUE Wei from the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity and the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas, which has embarked on the five-year project entitled “Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong”. The project seeks to revolutionize artistic creation through human-AI symbiotic collaboration.The initiative develops AI systems capable of creating, performing, and appreciating art, establishing a dynamic “Creative Flywheel” where human artists and AI systems engage in mutual inspiration and innovation, expanding the boundaries of creation. Beyond computer scientists, the project also diversely consists of artists and cognitive scientists. A database of human cognitive and physiological responses is developed to train human reward models on novelty, curiosity, and aesthetic appreciation.This approach enables AI systems to learn artistic creation through reinforcement learning, moving beyond traditional distribution sampling. Division of Arts and Machine Creativity; Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas Trailblazing Project Mixes Art with Technology The project launches three creative applications: the world’s first “Music and Art Biennial” showcasing artworks co-created by humans and AI; empathetic concerts jointly organized by performers, audiences, and machines; and a new opera driven by immersive extended reality (XR), where humans and machines co-create in a virtual world. The team has made significant breakthroughs in developing new modalities of art creation and consumption. A “Machine Singing Artist” was created to learn to sing from speaking voices, compose original music based on lyrics, generate novel timbres, and improve melodies from simple humming; an “AI Painter” created an imaginative portrait merging Mr. DENG Xiaoping with Hong Kong’s iconic Victoria Harbor backdrop; The world’s first human-AI symbiotic orchestra was held, featuring an innovative collaboration between AI-powered choir, visual artists, and dancers performing seamlessly alongside human conductors and performers.
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