Podcasts about kenric mcdowell

Last fall, For The Wild was invited to participate in a workshop on art and technology in the Anthropocene hosted at the Guggenheim Museum. Facilitated by Kenric McDowell, alongside support from Troy Conrad Therrien, Curator of Architecture and Digital Initiative at the Guggenheim, we explored the role art and technology will play in our future depending upon its design. On this week’s episode we rejoin Kenric in conversation to follow up on some of the most fruitful topics from this workshop, like the cultures in which machine learning and technological advancement are cultivated in, the implications of anthropocentrism in design and how our understanding of relationship impacts technology and design. Music by South London HiFi, Bad Snacks, and Qenric. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

This week, we are speaking with Kenric McDowell. Kenric is a musician, public speaker, and AI curator for Google Research. We discuss AI, inevitably, but not from either a lurid ‘the world is ending’ way or from a 'techno-utopian jibber jabber' way. Instead we look at what the implications of AI are for personhood, a theory of technology and its appropriateness, and whether we’re teaching AI to think or AI is teaching us to. Very, very good times. Show Notes Kenric's website Kenric on Twitter Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence Programme Kenric's Gray Area presentation

What can artists, musicians, magical thinkers and "weirdos" bring to machine learning and neural networks? What do we need to make the right kind of AI? Exploring these questions and more is Kenric McDowell, leader of Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program. In this conversation with Douglas, Kenric explains how his unique role at Google enables him to bring the artistic spirit into the very heart of technology development. Moving beyond the hype of AI, Kenric shares strategies for leading technology with human imagination rather than the other way around.Douglas opens today’s show addressing the myth of social media; the notion that you matter. Facebook doesn’t care about you, and it’s time to leave it behind. Every minute spent off Facebook is a minute you can spend with the others! Go find them.Our intro and outro music is thanks to Dischord Records and Fugazi. A special thanks to Kenric for sharing his own original music featured at the mid-roll. Visit http://thebiggestphone.com to hear more. Kenric also provided us with the audio clip from a forthcoming documentary on the Word Car project. Read about it here!Stay tuned for Team Human live events in New York and beyond. Become a subscriber at Patreon for special access and the latest news. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Machine learning - a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building or the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed- is having a growing impact on our everyday lives: from practical speech recognition, effective web search, vastly improved understanding of the human genome to first prototypes of self-driving cars. But what is the influence these new forms of computing intelligence will exert on artists and their creative processes? Can it help us understand human creativity? and how does it work? These are some of the articulating questions the work of Artificial Intelligence curator Kenric McDowell revolves around. Kenrick, who has long had professional interests on the intersection of culture and technology, currently leads the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google Research, after moving from New York City and few years working in the advertising industry to L.A. AMI is a program at Google that brings artists and engineers to support and encourage collaboration between them and intelligent systems in artmaking. An emerging form of collaboration that opens new ways of thinking and working with intelligent systems. And Kenric helps driving forward cross collaborations between Google AI researchers, artists and cultural institutions. Kenric was at Sonar+D 2017 giving a talk as part of the Google AI Showcase: How machine learning and artificial intelligence are changing the art of the future panel. In his talk Creativity Beyond Human Creativity, McDowell presented the AMI program and how AI entities are not merely tools, but collaborators in the creative process changing the art of the future. He explored how artificial Intelligence and “Machine Learning” are already having an impact on the economy, transforming industry and the way we work, as well as influencing the work of creators and artists. After Sónar, Kenric stopped for a few days in London, and he kindly agreed to meet and chat with us. We were lucky to have a quick personal tour around the Google building in King’s Cross and deepen into questions such as how artists and creators change the way they work when their tools can come up with creative decisions or what is the value of this new art form. It was fascinating to speak with someone with so much vision and forward thinking. As we build systems with cognition that can understand and recognise the world, new ways of reading the world will also be created, forms that may have never came out of a human brain.

We kick off Season 2 of Into the Impossible by diving into the world of artificial imagination. As the artificial intelligence dream comes closer to AI reality, are the doomsday stories about AI correct—or will AI augment human imagination in unexpected and powerful ways? We speak with Kenric McDowell, the Director of Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence group, about generative AIs, Deep Dream, neural nets, AlphaGo and Deep Blue, artists working with machine learning, and what the technological enhancement of human imagination may, ultimately, look like.