When creators and AI share the same level of initiative, computational creativity has the potential of becoming more diverse and accessible for all, making it possible for designers to co-create with powerful generative models while still feeling in control.
Check out my research to see how mixed-initiative co-creativity works, how it’s been tested with real creators, and how you could start collaborating with AI in a way that feels natural and collaborative.
Zhiyu Lin, Upol Ehsan, Rohan Agarwal, Samihan Dani, Vidushi Vashishth, Mark Riedl
Experimental AI in Games (EXAG) 2024
How should an AI collaborate with human users to find common aesthetic goals, and educate human users about their capabilities and policies, by opening the black box?
Zhiyu Lin, Upol Ehsan, Rohan Agarwal, Samihan Dani, Vidushi Vashishth, Mark Riedl
Best Paper at 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC '23)
Beyond prompts, how does more ways to communicate matter?
Zhiyu Lin, Rohan Agarwal, Mark Riedl
Oral at The 18th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-22)
Creative Wand makes building and investigating co-creative mixed-initiative systems easy!