Intelligence on tap: Artificial intelligence as a new design material
05 February 2025, 3:00 pm–4:00 pm

Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Mark Colley
Location
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Room 40566-72 Gower StreetLondonWC1E 6EA
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken unprecedented leaps in recent years, and there is currently a lively debate on the capabilities, potentials and threats of this new technology. Many examples have already shown how AI can be used to generate visual and textual content or support creative endeavours in art and design. In this talk, Professor Holmquist will outline how AI is also becoming a design material for new products. There is a long history of creating “smart” digital consumer products as well as industrial applications, often referred to as Ubiquitous Computing or the Internet of Things. However, the new forms of AI that we are now seeing, such as neural networks and deep learning, are fundamentally different from earlier AI technology. Professor Holmquist outlines the challenges in designing with this new material, as well as discussing the opportunities he sees on the horizon. This will include the ability of anyone to inject and interact with a measure of “intelligence” in everyday products and devices – what Professor Holmquist calls intelligence on tap.
This event is also available for remote participation on Zoom:
https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98581580748?pwd=ZvwXDChmxJNFRKbG5v8NPorDaghzDa.1 (Meeting ID: 985 8158 0748; Passcode: 636981)
About the Speaker
Lars Erik Holmquist
Professor of Design and Innovation at School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University
