Detournement AI develops for creativity.
We combine state-of-the-art AI techniques with deep domain knowledge to create new AI products.
LONDON
AMSTERDAM
Creativity is key
These days AI is sometimes amazing, and sometimes terrible – and, often enough, both at once. It can be so responsive and so adept at processing massive amounts of information, but it can get the most basic things wrong, too, and then it suddenly becomes obvious just how out-of-the-frame algorithms that are just projecting predictions statistically extrapolated from lots of data can be.
We humans on the other hand are always in the frame. AI may be a remarkable framework for building prediction machines, but one of the things that makes us so remarkable is our ability to keep adjusting to a world that’s never actually that predictable. Our ability to keep re-framing our perspective on a fast-moving world doesn’t involve lots of data processing; it involves our creativity, which is what will always be at the root of the eternally human capacity for not just seeing the world as it is but imagining it as it could be.
We develop products that use AI to enshrine and broadcast humans at our best: being creative, being communicative, and being in the world we share. Instead of talking about AI displacing and replacing humans, we want to talk about how language and cognitive technology can help us do more of what we’re best at.
Team
We are experts in AI and creativity, former CTOs/VP Engineering/Directors of Research, who have delivered state-of-the-art AI solutions in entertainment, wearables, finance, and customer interaction.
Stephen McGregor, PhD
Vincent Akkermans, PhD
Writing
We write about AI and related topics at The New Situationists.
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