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Join us for the first seminar series event hosted by MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program. This event features Ge Wang, an Associate Professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, and will be moderated by Opera of the Future researcher Manaswi Mishra.
How do we (want to) live 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 tool-building lens, considering factors such as human creativity, education, and how we might want to live with our technology. 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.
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. He is a Senior Fellow and a Faculty Associate Director of Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute. 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 (https://artful.design/).