AI for Good: Human Collaboration with an AI Musician
AI for Good: Human Collaboration with an AI Musician
Improvising music is one of the most creatively challenging and rewarding things that humans can do together. It evokes virtuosity, motor skills, timing, trust and ‘feel’, each person working moment-to-moment to keep the music flowing. When collaboration works, the results seem almost magical, but achieving a good collaboration is fragile and difficult, even for the best music improvisers. What happens when one of the musicians is an Artificial Intelligence?
In this presentation, we will showcase our research and discuss ideas behind the design of AI systems that inspire and support human creativity. Creativity forces fundamentally different thinking about what AI should be over the conventions that have dominated other domains. In our work we are not looking at bettering or replacing human musicians, rather we want to support and expand human creativity for everyone.
This presentation will include music performances and an interactive Q&A featuring researchers at Monash University in Melbourne Australia, and Goldsmiths, University of London in the UK.
In this unique music performance, Dr Alon Ilsar, percussionist and music technology researcher from Monash, and Professor Mark d’Inverno, London Jazz pianist and AI researcher from Goldsmiths, will be joined by an AI musician for a live improvisation between humans and AI.
Program:
Thursday, 22 October
11:00 am- 12:30 pm
Speakers: Jon McCormack (Professor, Founder and Director Monash University), Alon Ilsaralon (Drummer, composer, instrument designer and researcher Monash University), Maria Teresa Llano (Lecturer of Creative AI for the Faculty of Information Technology Monash University ), Mark D’inverno (Professor of Computer Science and Pro-Warden (International) at Goldsmiths, University of London), Matthew Yee-King (Programme Director, Computer Science BSc online at Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths)
Moderation: Christian Rauch (Founder & Managing Director STATE Studio)
About AI for Good
The future will see large parts of our lives influenced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. Machines can execute repetitive tasks with complete precision, and with recent advances in AI, machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuity.
We have less than 10 years to solve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). AI holds great promise by capitalizing on the unprecedented quantities of data now being generated on sentiment behaviour, human health, commerce, communications, migration and more.
The AI for Good series is the leading action-oriented, global & inclusive United Nations platform on AI. The Summit is organized every year in Geneva by the ITU with XPRIZE Foundation in partnership with over 35 sister United Nations agencies, Switzerland and ACM. The goal is to identify practical applications of AI and scale those solutions for global impact.
