Post-Cognitive Design: A New Theory of AI with Abhay Agarwal

UT School of Design and Creative Technologies

You're invited to a public lecture with Abhay Agarwal, CEO of Poly and Designer in Residence at the Center for Integrated Design.

Anna Hiss Gymnasium

The Center for Integrated Design Presents

Public lectures presented by the Center for Integrated Design

Location: AHG 1.308***If you are unable to attend in person, please <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R_0jSZ_jRjqT1yeVgIFViQ" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">register via Zoom</a>***Abhay Agarwal is an AI researcher, designer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of <a href="https://withpoly.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Poly</a>, a generative AI company building tools for professional designers. He has also held positions as Research Fellow at Microsoft Research and Lecturer at Stanford’s d.School. Abhay is working on his forthcoming book, The Lingua Franca of AI: A Toolkit for Designing Intelligence. As the Center for Integrated Design’s Designer in Residence, Abhay is working to build a curriculum around designing AI-enabled products and services. And in Spring 2023, he’ll be teaching ITD 111: Intro to AI for Design.Abhay’s work focuses on a new theory of Artificial Intelligence. Traditionally Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been seen as a form of optimization that can accomplish tasks like path-planning, game-playing, and increasingly tasks such as object detection or autonomous navigation as well. An alternate strain of development in AI technology has seen astonishing innovation in creative activities such as writing and image drawing. How do we reconcile AI’s role amongst these activities, and in society in general? How are we to conceptualize AI’s relationship to humanity — as autonomous agents, augmented super-powers, or simply tools for thought? Abhay calls his new theory of AI “Post-Cognitive Design.”

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