Can AI support creativity? The technology is often framed as threatening creative work either by automating it or by encouraging imitation. But Professor Rebecca Fiebrink’s work in creative machine learning suggests a more useful way to think about this relationship. In our March research seminar, she showed how machine learning can help people work with meaningful data, communicate ideas through examples, and build new kinds of creative projects. Rebecca Fiebrink is Professor of Creative Computing at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London. Our current seminar series focuses on teaching applied AI and how educators of subjects beyond computing can make AI and machine learning relevant in their classroom. We were delighted to have Rebecca join us to share insights about the place of machine learning in artistic creation.…