Diederik Jekel

Seeing the art in artificial intelligence

Will artificial intelligence (AI) be the downfall of humanity or simply the solution to all the boring office chores? Emails that are written and answered by a program, then forwarded to your colleague's program, which then answers those emails; No more creating a PowerPoint yourself or summarizing a document for your boss or knowing when a video is real or not. Soon, journalists, artists and judges will also be replaced by AI. No more thinking and struggling at work, because the computer can do your job better than you can. How on earth did we get into this and what will this mean for humanity? What is life? What is creativity? Does evolution still exist and is this the result?

In this unique theatrical performance lecture, Diederik Jekel will take you through a very special story. The biggest story imaginable. That about life itself. How did life come about, how did humans come about and how did the computer eventually come about? It promises to be a wonderful evening with lots of humor and at the end of the performance you will never look at any bacteria, human or computer the same again and have a good feeling about how artificial intelligence works under the hood. Intended for everyone, from young to old and also (especially) for people who can hardly find the on button on their phone.

It will forever change your perspective on the thing that affects your life more than any other thing in our lives: the computer. And that in just an hour and a half! Perhaps the last performance you will ever see that was written by a human being.