The following post is a redux of my part of a recent panel I did with the physicist Stephon Alexander and the sculptor Saint Clair Cemin. Thanks to Stephon and Saint Clair for their brilliant ideas and guidance.
This semester, we started a new research group at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The Intelligent Design group — led by Patrick Hebron and Rune Madsen with assistance of Eve Weinberg — is devoted to exploring how machine learning will transform the field…
A tool should be easy to use, meeting the user at his or her point-of-view rather than requiring the user to gain expertise about the tool itself.
A tool should be open-ended, allowing any possible output.