CCAI9024 Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI and the Future of Creativity
Course Teachers
Professor Bo DAI
Assistant Professor
HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science
Professor Bo Dai is an Assistant Professor in the Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong. He obtained his PhD degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, working with Prof. Dahua Lin. His research interests include Generative AI and its interdisciplinary applications in areas covering Embodied AI, Scientific Discovery, Metaverse and Creativity. His representative works include AnimateDiff, a pioneering work and milestone in video generation, as well as a leading research series in city-scale scene reconstruction and rendering such as CityNeRF, GridNeRF, LandMark, and Scaffold-GS. He is an Area Chair of NeurIPS2024 and AAAI 2021.
Professor Xihui LIU
Assistant Professor
HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Professor Xihui Liu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) and the Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (IDS), The University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKU, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley working with Prof. Trevor Darrell. She received her Ph.D. degree from Multimedia Lab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021 and her Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2017. She has won several awards such as Adobe Research Fellowship 2020, MIT EECS Rising Stars 2021, CVPR 2021 Doctoral Consortium Award, WAIC Rising Star Award 2022, CVPR Outstanding Reviewers Award, and ICLR Outstanding Reviewers Award.
Course Description
Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionizing the future of creativity across nearly every domain—from writing and illustration to music composition and filmmaking. Easily transforming natural language into vivid and high-quality content, GenAI demonstrates remarkable efficiency and accessibility, offering advanced creative capability to everyone. Moreover, GenAI is growing at an unprecedented pace, with new techniques and tools emerging almost daily. This transformative moment presents both extraordinary opportunities and complex challenges for individuals and industries alike. This course immerses students in the rapidly evolving world of GenAI through a dynamic blend of intuitive technical demonstrations, hands-on creative projects, thought-provoking discussions on its societal and artistic impact, and guest lectures from pioneering GenAI artists. This course thus provides a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of technology and creativity. Equipped with fresh insights and practical experience, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of how GenAI is reshaping the creative landscape, inspiring them to embrace this transformative journey.