RichieBot | Art Exhibit & Documentary Film Experience
We’re bringing together Chicago founders and marketing leaders for a private preview of RichieBot: A Modern Legacy, an experimental documentary and immersive art project exploring one question at the center of AI today:
As AI scales what we can create, how do we preserve what makes us human?
This project began with training AI on tens of thousands of pages of writing, business philosophy, sales training, voice recordings, and video from J. Richard Dema, a marketer, entrepreneur, and the late father of Department of Growth founder, Brian Dema.
Through film, psychology, and art, the RichieBot team is exploring how a person’s ideas and creative legacy can be explored in a new way.
Watch the teaser for RichieBot here!
As we go, we are scientifically testing our work to see how close the bot has come to the man (in terms of psychological profile, personality and memory), and capturing peoples' reactions to it to understand how remembering someone in this way makes us feel. What happens when AI moves beyond efficiency and begins shaping memory, creativity, storytelling, and human connection?
This will be part gallery opening, part film shoot, and part conversation, designed to feel a little unexpected and very much of this moment.
The event will include:
An interactive hologram of RichieBot that you can experience for yourself
Participation in the ongoing documentary project as we film reactions to RichieBot
An immersive art experience with national artists creating work built from the archives
Conversation with the RichieBot team, as well as other Chicago tech and marketing leaders
Drinks served by a real human
Presented by the Department of Growth