AI for the People: Unleashing the Power of Community-Engaged AI

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A Conversation with Aron Culotta (Tulane University’s Center for Community-Engaged AI), Dan Cannity (UMass- IDEAS), and Kirsten Helmer (UMass- CTL) | April 4th @ 4p ET | Zoom Register Here! Many technologists argue that artificial intelligence holds the promise of significantly enhancing a variety of societal institutions like healthcare, education, and public safety. However, its…

March 25th, 2024

Upcoming Events AILA’s Spring Learning & Discussion Series Emotions on Demand: How AI Music Scoring Interfaces Combine Game Engines, Music Data, and Machine Listening | A Conversation with Ravi Krishnaswami & Chris Grobe TOMORROW! Tues, March 26th @ 4:30 pm | Location: CHI ThinkTank Join AILA and Ravi Krishnaswami, the Joseph E. and Grace W….

Emotions on Demand: How AI Music Scoring Interfaces Combine Game Engines, Music Data, and Machine Listening

A Conversation with Ravi Krishnaswami & Chris Grobe | March 26, 2024 @ 4:30-5:30 I CHI ThinkTank In the last few years, an expansive array of AI music platforms have found their way into the world of digital music production. Google offered up MusicLM, a pioneering text-to-music tool capable of generating songs from simple prompts,…

Love Letters to Lifelong Learning: Professor Baron’s Remarks on AI and the Future of Writing 

by Emmanuelle Toulouse, Spring 2024 AILA Assistant In the 1950s, if you asked a computer to write you a love letter, it would produce something like this: “My sympathetic affection beautifully attracts your affectionate enthusiasm. You are my loving adoration, my breathless adoration. My fellow feeling breathlessly hopes for your dear eagerness.” Today, ChatGPT can…

March 5th, 2024

Upcoming Events UMass Center for Teaching & Learning and the Instructional Design, Engagement, and Support (IDEAS) Team Integrating AI in Practice: How to Teach with and about AI 11:30am- 12:45pm PM EST | Friday, March 15, 2024 | Register for Zoom Link Understanding AI is no longer optional for college students – AI is already…

February 20th, 2024

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“If you’ve created a conscious machine, it’s not the history of man. That’s the history of gods.” – Caleb, Ex Machina (2014) Upcoming Events AILA’s Spring Learning & Discussion Series AI and Creativity: What Matters for Human Writers | A Conversation with Naomi S. BaronTuesday, Feb. 20th @ 4 pm; Zoom Event For writers, as…

February 7, 2024 Newsletter

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“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.” — Stephen Hawking Upcoming Events AILA’s Spring Learning & Discussion Series AI and Creativity: What Matters for Human Writers | A Conversation with Naomi S. BaronTuesday, Feb. 20th…

AI and Creativity: What Matters for Human Writers? | February 20th, 2024 @ 4p; Zoom event

AI and Creativity: What Matters for Human Writers Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 4p, via Zoom | Register here! As part of AILA’s Spring Learning & Discussion Series, in partnership with the Writing Center we bring you AI and Creativity: What Matters for Human Writers | A Conversation with Naomi S. Baron  For writers, as well as teachers and students…