Vaishak Belle

Vaishak Belle is a Chancellor’s Fellow/Lecturer at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, an Alan Turing Institute Faculty Fellow, and a member of the RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Young Academy of Scotland. At the University of Edinburgh, he directs the »Belle Lab«, which specializes in the unification of symbolic systems and machine learning. 

Presentation at the Open Conference »Art and Artificial Intelligence«

EXPERIENTIAL AI: WHERE ALGORITHMS COME OUT TO PLAY
Drew Hemment, Vaishak Belle, Dave Murray-Rust, Larissa Pschetz

Experiential AI is a new program at Edinburgh Futures Institute on art, ethics and artificial intelligence. It aims to support the creation of significant artistic works using machine learning algorithms and robotics, and to inspire radically new concepts and paradigms on ethical and responsible AI. The program brings artists and scientists together to dispel the mystery of algorithms and make their mechanisms vividly apparent. It looks at how art can mediate between computer code and human comprehension to overcome the limitations of explainability and accountability in AI systems.

Edinburgh is the world's foremost festival city, and has been a centre for AI research since the early 1960s. Experiential AI is developed by Edinburgh Futures Institute, Bayes Centre, and Heriot-Watt’s Robotarium as a part of the Data-Driven Innovation Programme.

Experiential AI will launch in August 2019 a lighthouse artist residency with Ars Electronica and Edinburgh International Festival.