Biography(ies)

Entrepreneur, writer, artist and speaker, Flavien Chervet has founded several companies in the field of innovation. He is Director of Innovation at IRIIG (International Research Institute for Innovation & Growth), the leading French innovation school.

Since 2012, he has conducted research on artificial intelligence (AI) and creation. He created the Lyon meetup on the theme of AI and its impact on society, which brings together more than 3,500 specialist and passionate people. He is also co-founder of the Lyon-iS-Ai association whose mission is to demystify AI and educate about its ethical use. Also an essayist, he has published two works on the relationship between AI and creation: Hypercreation. Small manual for taming the C-Borgs and the Hyperprompt prompt engineering manual, both published by Nullius in Verba.

By mixing scientific, philosophical and artistic contributions to the innovation themes he addresses, Flavien Chevret’s lecturer position is resolutely transdisciplinary. By this he means to offer an original look at the upheavals in our world, in order to give them meaning and place them in a global and humanist vision of society.

A.I. – CONFERENCE | FLAVIEN CHERVET

Flavien Chervet

Saturday October 21, 3 p.m.

A lecture from Flavien Chervet. Artificial intelligence: new tool, new medium, new artist?

French only.

Saturday, October 21, 2023, 3 – 4:30 pm Cheese and wine will be served.

FREE

Machine-artists coming to transform digital creation, algorithms that play GO with unsuspected moves, or fascinating conversational assistants on the edge of the Turing test, a new AI revolution has been taking shape since 2017, notably thanks to the arrival of “Transformers” algorithms. Once again, a capacity that was thought to be particularly human is in doubt: creativity. Will machines surpass humans in this area?

In his conference, Flavien Chervet suggests providing possible answers to different questions:

How can AI be integrated into the creative process in a new way and thus become a new artistic tool?
How can AI go beyond being a simple tool to become a new artistic medium (as photography was in its time), and thus open up a new art?
Is it possible, for certain algorithms, to develop their own aesthetic point of view and autonomous creativity, and thus become real, full-fledged players in the artistic scene?

This talk is part of our Chantier AI and closes the exhibition I########### A########### presented in the gallery, curated by Nathalie Bachand and Sofian Audry.