1️⃣ - Intro

  • Thursday, 11/14
    • Never Alone: Presentation and Discussion of Student Work
  • Tuesday, 12/3
    • Letter to My Future: Presentations and Discussion of Student Work
  • Thursday, 12/12
    • Final Project Presentation

How the AI work for me? Agent: take tasks and go on on its own (autonomous自主的)


2️⃣ - Consciousness, Intelligence, Creativity - Oct 29, 2024

Class Slides: Consciousness, Intelligence, Creativity

  • 1. Consciousness

    • Human Consciousness: awareness of self, free will
    • Key points:
      • Automatic reactions vs. self-awareness and having choices, or “free will”
      • Daniel Dennett’s Dangerous Idea on AI autonomy and cultural values
      • Do AIs have free will?
    • Relevant questions:
      • Can machines have consciousness?
      • Do machines have the right to knowledge?
      • Can we create consciousness for bots?
  • 2. Intelligence

    • AI = Intelligence on demand: Ability to acquire and apply knowledge, measurable externally
    • Key points:
      • AI vs. AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
      • AGI has more autonomy, closer to human intelligence, while current AI operates within pre-set limits
    • Relevant questions:
      • How does autonomy in AGI differ from current AI systems?
  • 3. Creativity

    • Creativity (definition): The use of imagination or original ideas in artistic works
    • Key points:
      • Inspiration → Creation → Curation (ability to integrate, editorial skills, aesthetic judgment)
      • More accessibility: Allowing people to access skills they lack
    • Relevant questions:
      • Is creativity important in AI?

3️⃣ - Talk with Lawyer & Chat ITP - Nov 5+7, 2024

Class Slides: Consciousness, Intelligence, Creativity

  • How AI Presents Itself Across Different Art Forms
    • Exploration of AI’s role and presentation in various art forms.
  • Creative Biosphere
    • Concept of letting the project interact with itself or its environment.

4️⃣ - Guest Speaker - Nov 12+15, 2024

Class Slides: Text-to-image AIs Workshop

Fun thing to do: Try asking an image generator to create an image using a prompt: Lyrics-based Prompt

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  • 1. Working with Parameters

    Basic Parameters:

    • 1. Aspect Ratio
      • Usually it being trained in Landscape or Portrait.
    • 2. Steps
      • The number of iterative steps the model takes to generate an image.
        • Effect:
          • Lower Steps: Faster generation but may lack detail.
          • Higher Steps: Slower but produces more detailed and refined outputs.
    • 3. Guidance Scale
      • Listen to my instructions.
    • 4. Negative Prompt
      • What is not expected in the generated version.
    • 5. Seed
      • Same seed: Output same result.
  • 2. Helpful Tools


5️⃣ - Our Agentic Future + Project Showcase(Inspiration) - Nov 19+21 , 2024

Agentic Future

  • 1. AI Agents

  • 2. The Future of AI

    • Agentic AI: Agents act on behalf of humans.
  • 3. Current Website Layouts & Function Design

    • Built with human intentions at the core.
    • The infrastructure of the web is evolving.
  • 4. Anyone Can Be a Designer

    • Concept: Breaking a plate → Repetition of patterns.
  • 5. Ideal Studio Vision

    • Goal: Assemble a diverse team for collaborative problem-solving.
      • Process:
        1. Supervisor (Me): Define the mission.
        2. AI Agents: Provide solutions.
    1. Create an agent in ChatGPT: Create companion to coworking

Project Showcase(Inspiration)

  • Project focus inspiration:
      1. Solving real life problem
      1. have market (targeting audience)
      1. competitor analysis (what is currently available , how’s mine unique, is mine necessary?)
      1. (include demo walk through video, showcase the functionality)
      1. Why?
        • Problem?
        • Solution
      1. Key Features
    • 🌱 - Creative Tool Making - Create AI tools - reach variety of people (include disability people)

6️⃣ - Helpful AI tools - Nov 26, 2024

Class Slides: No-code tool for designer!

  • Helpful AI tools:
      1. Perplexity.ai
      • more trust-worthy for research
      • helpful for finding academic references
      1. V0.dev
      • Front-end in React
      1. FigJam AI
      • Good tool for group brainstorming idea
        • Figjam summarize idea into categories and key points
      1. You.ai
      1. notebooklm
      • turn papers into listenable engaging conversation, normally 15-20min