Stanford Symbolic Systems Forum: Music & AI

How do we (want to) make music with artificial intelligence? What does it mean to do so--and is it even a good idea? How might we artfully design tools and systems that balance machine automation and human interaction? More broadly, how do we want to live with our technologies? Are there - and ought there be - limits to using AI for art? (And what is Art, anyway?) In this presentation, we will pose some of these critical questions in music and AI. As a case study, we will unpack what we learned from teaching "Music and AI", a critical-making course at Stanford (Music 356 / CS 470), and ponder the power of human creativity in regarding AI not as an "oracle", but as a tool for creative expression.

Speaker: Ge Wang, Stanford University

Room 126