TIME100 AI Innovators: Sougwen Chung
Most AI-based artists work exclusively in front of their computers. Sougwen Chung is different: they train robots to physically paint in tandem with them on massive canvases.
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00:03 My name is Su Guan Cheng,
00:04 and I'm an artist and researcher
00:06 exploring human and machine collaboration.
00:09 For the past 10 years,
00:10 I've been working with robotics, AI systems,
00:12 public data, and biofeedback
00:14 to push the evolution of the human hand.
00:17 In 2015, I started a project drawing with a robotic unit
00:22 driven by an AI system
00:23 trained on two decades of my own artistic data.
00:27 It began as a way to understand
00:28 the underlying structure of the technology
00:31 and has turned into an ongoing passion
00:33 to uncover new ways
00:34 of building collaborative art-making systems.
00:37 In the field of art and culture,
00:39 I think that there's a danger of thinking of AI systems
00:42 as an inevitability
00:43 that will render human creativity obsolete.
00:46 I think we can choose to learn about the technologies
00:49 that make up an AI system
00:51 in order to broaden our view about the world around us.
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