Full Day Workshop on Virtual Beings & Being Virtual

AI-Generated Characters for Positive Applications

Organized by MIT Media Lab with NTT DATA

The workshop is dedicated to the discussion of how AI-generated Characters can be used for positive applications. We will explore a variety of topics, including how AI-generated characters can be used to improve the quality of life for a broad group of people in areas such as education, healthcare and beyond, and how industry can make use of virtual characters in customer relations, e-commerce, training, living memory, and more. The all-day workshop will feature a range of speakers, all of whom are experts in technologies, applications, and ethics of virtual characters. The audience will consist of researchers as well as representatives from industry, some in person and some online. It will also be live-streamed for the general public.

*The event workshop will be livestreamed on the MIT Media Lab channel

*On-site participation is by invitation only

Organizers

• Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab
• Pat Pataranutaporn, MIT Media Lab
• Valdemar Danry, MIT Media Lab
• Mirei Rioux, MIT Media Lab
• Erej Sarfraz, NTT DATA
• Naoki Ohsuki, NTT DATA
• Thomas Normark, NTT DATA
• Charlotte Lindegaard, NTT DATA
• Diego Antonelli, NTT DATA
• Tina Dupont, NTT DATA
• Thorsten  Sobirk, NTT DATA