Creativity on show at 2018 ANBD exhibition at SLIIT
Sri Lanka will play host to a new generation of intelligent machines that is expected to create competition for the human brain at the Asia Network Beyond Design (ANBD) exhibition scheduled to take place on February 11-15 at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) Malabe.
The special conference and exhibition will take place this year in Sri Lanka with the participation of 176 foreign creators at the exhibition and 24 foreign professors will join at the special conference arriving from 17 different Asian countries, ANBD Colombo Chapter Representative Athula Mahawalage told the Business Times.
This particular conference and exhibition is set to generate interest for intelligent machines and how to challenge these in creating a good market for any product, he said. Future designs would require human-like emotions, Mr. Mahawalage noted adding that however, it is understood that with the limitations on humans Artificial Intelligence is expected to exceed the human brain in 2040.
“Human always think they are not creative so we have to develop the human knowledge and learn from explicit knowledge,” he said. This conference would create a talking point and the exhibition would bring to the fore the new concepts in technology and machine – human intelligence in establishing a creative space for the people, the local representative explained.
ANBD was established 12 years back and annually the organisation conducts four exhibitions in addition to these special conferences and exhibitions.
As such Sri Lanka has been able to bring the special conference and exhibition to the country this year, which organisers believe they could make it a regular event in future. Mr. Mahawalage noted that the Sri Lankan curriculum needed to change in accordance with international standards in a bid to include creativity as part of the education system.
The organisers hope to attract a number of academia to visit the exhibition this year to obtain information and understand the future of technology and how intelligence systems could be progressing in the future. The series of special conference and exhibitions were started about three years back with the first held in Tokyo, Japan and the second held in Munich, Germany last year.