UCSB AI/Human Creativity Contest: Winners Announced

The Mellichamp Initiative in Mind and Machine Intelligence is happy to announce the winners of the 2024 AI/Human Creativity Contests in Short Story, Visual Art, and Music.   There were 41 short story entries,  26 visual art, and 13 music pieces. Expert judges evaluated the work without knowing whether the entries were created by AI, human/AI collaboration, or human only. The winning entries were human/AI collaborations.  There was a tie for the visual art with two entries sharing the 1st prize.  A 700 $ prize was awarded to the competition winners. 

Read, View and Listen to the winning entries, read about their creators and about their creative process:

1. Short Story

- Stargazers, Ruei-Jie Chang

2. Music

 - Pulsar Rays, Dariush Derakhshani

3. Visual Art - Two winners:

- Osmosis, Iason Paterakis, Nefeli Manoudaki 

- House of Beetle + Stone, Lela Shahrzad Welch

We thank the 2024 AI Human Creativity Contest Committee (Alphabetically ordered by last Name): 

Debra Herrick, Associate Editorial Director, Public Affairs and Comms, UCSB

Leslie Hogan, Lecturer, College of Creative Studies, UCSB

George Legrady, Distinguished Professor, Media Arts and Technology Program, UCSB

Jeff O'Brien, Curator of Image Resource Center, History of Art & Architecture, UCSB

Sowon Park, Assistant Professor, Department of English, UCSB

Stephen Rachman, Associate Professor, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University

Matthew Reynolds, Professor, English and Comparative Criticism, University of Oxford 

Richert Wang, Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science, UCSB

Andrew Watts, Lecturer, College of Creative Studies, UCSB