How will we harness the benefits that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring to build a more dignified and sustainable tomorrow for all? It is with this question that LAA—Laboratory of Tomorrow's Activities—reopens its doors with yet another innovative experience: AYA and its world of creative artificial intelligence.

Starting December 22nd, visitors will be welcomed to the LAA by AYA, the AI host of the new exhibition, designed in collaboration with IBM and trained to answer the most common questions about Artificial Intelligence. AYA will be constantly learning and will learn from the audience based on their questions. The exhibition will be on display until July 2018.

Visitors will have the opportunity to gain a hands-on understanding of the AI training process and how it can collaborate with humans, using tools capable of reading facial expressions, composing music tailored to individual tastes, and creating abstract paintings, among other things.

The exhibition route consists of eight experiences, including the "Emotion CAM," which detects the visitor's presence, reads their facial expressions, and responds with hilarious internet memes. We dare you not to laugh! Continuing through the exhibition, in another experience, the visitor's image will be transformed in real time, via webcam, into the style of paintings by renowned artists – the first reference trained by the AI was that of one of the most important Brazilian painters of the modernist movement, Tarsila do Amaral.

AYA and its world of creative artificial intelligences is a co-production of LAA - Tomorrow's Activities Laboratory and Deeplab Project, in collaboration with IBM and support from CyberLabs and the Development area of TV Globo. 

The LAA - Laboratory of Tomorrow's Activities is presented by Santander.