Artful Design + Artificial Intelligence

Artful Design + Artificial Intelligence: What Do We (Really) Want from AI?

Join us for an exciting event that explores the fascinating STEAM intersection of music, coding, art, and artificial intelligence. 

We all design, shaping the world around us in the form of tools, policies, education, and communities. In recent months we’ve seen the growing emergence of “astoundingly competent” AI tools, leading many of us to wonder how AI might soon impact our work, our lives, our world. How do we (want to) live and work with artificial intelligence? How might we artfully design tools and systems that balance machine automation and human interaction? And perhaps the most basic question of all, what do we (really) want from AI?

In this presentation, we will engage with these questions through an artful design lens, considering factors such as aesthetics, ethics, and accountability. As a case study, we will draw from the teaching of "Music and AI", a critical-making course at Stanford, and explore the power of human creativity in using AI not as an "oracle", but as a tool for creative expression.

The first 50 guests will receive a free copy of Ge Wang's book Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime.

Doors open at 3:30 p.m.

This is a free event, but tickets are required for each attendee.  

Reserve your free ticket(s) here before September 18, 2023

Bio

Ge Wang is an Associate Professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He researches the
artful design of tools, toys, games, musical instruments, programming languages, expressive VR experiences, and interactive AI systems with
humans in the loop. Ge is the architect of the ChucK audio programming language, the director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra and the Stanford
VR Design Lab. He is the Co-founder of Smule and the designer of the Ocarina and Magic Piano apps for mobile phones. A 2016 Guggenheim
Fellow, Ge is the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime, a photo comic book about how we shape technology -- and how
technology shapes us.

At Stanford University, Ge teaches "critical-making" courses at the intersections of art, the humanities, and engineering, including "Music,
Computing, Design", "Laptop Orchestra", and "Music and AI".
 

This event is hosted by Initiative for Education Policy and Innovation, Centre for the Study of Global Japan at the UofT Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, sponsored by UTS.