Humanity has entered the Fifth Industrial Revolution (IR 5.0): a new and deeper collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence across the economy. While Industry 5.0 is believed to have started in 2020, the rise of AI in recent years has pushed it into overdrive - leading experts to say it is just now'coming.' Researchers predict this new revolution will be a'sensory leap' from today's AI -- which mostly interacts with human beings via text commands -- to so-called'multimodal interaction,' which will be much more human. And some are calling the shift the'Cognitive Age.' Imagine AI-powered robots that see, hear, touch and more, pooling fresh data from across those suites of sensors to synthesize that data with the vast arrays of digital data stored elsewhere online. Brain-computer interfaces, like Elon Musk's Neuralink, will also play a role in IR 5.0.

Move over selfie, artificial intelligence (AI) might just be creating your world-class portrait. His art practice follows two main paths. On one hand, Tresset presents theatrical installations in which robotic agents are actors. He also crafts the computational systems driving the robots so that their behavior can be perceived as artistic, expressive and even obsessive. These systems are influenced by research into actual human behavior--more specifically, how humans make marks or draw, how humans depict other humans, how humans perceive artwork, and how humans relate to robots.

His art practice follows two main paths. On one hand, Tresset presents theatrical installations in which robotic agents are actors. He also crafts the computational systems driving the robots so that their behavior can be perceived as artistic, expressive and even obsessive. These systems are influenced by research into actual human behavior--more specifically, how humans make marks or draw, how humans depict other humans, how humans perceive artwork, and how humans relate to robots. Originally a painter, Tresset is part of a generation of artists coming out of Goldsmiths College's computing department.