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AI & Machine Learning Articles

Credit Google DeepMind

The Creative Future of Generative AI

An MIT panel charts how art and design will be impacted by Artificial Intelligence Few technologies have shown as much potential to shape our future as artificial intelligence. Specialists in fields ranging from medicine to microfinance to the military are … Continued

Point-cloud generated from aerial data of 100,000 images of Simonos Petra Monastery (southern view) from Nikolaos Vlavianos PhD Dissertation in Design & Computation
Point-cloud generated from aerial data of 100,000 images of Simonos Petra Monastery (southern view).

Nikolaos Vlavianos Measures Immersion in Virtual Space

Through his research at MIT, Vlavianos has sought to understand how people respond to their environments, and how creating digital twins will revolutionize architecture. As a scholar in the field of architecture and computational design, Nikolaos Vlavianos has always been … Continued

Workshop in Lewis Library, credit Heidi Erickson.

Machine Learning and the Arts: A Creative Continuum

Sketch a doodle of a drum or a saxophone to conjure a multi-instrumental composition. Look into a webcam, speak, and watch your mouth go bouncing across the screen—the input for a series of charmingly clunky chain-reactions.

“Generative drawing” critique, 4.022 Architectural Design Fundamentals, 2015. Photo: S. Lacey.

Transcending The Algorithm: Architecture Students Create Generative Drawings

With his canvas stretched on the floor, Jackson Pollock dipped brushes or sticks into paint cans; then he drew in the air, dripping paint on the canvas, hovering, leaning, lunging, and gesturing here and there with varying speed. His pace, … Continued

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