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The mission of The Design Lab is to foster design-driven transformation by educating design leaders, imagining alternative futures, and equipping people and communities with the knowledge, tools, and opportunities to address the most pressing societal challenges.

UC San Diego Design Lab

Design@Large, a quarterly seminar series hosted by the UC San Diego Design Lab, features distinguished academic and industry speakers.

UCSD Design & Innovation Building, Room 208

Design@Large: AI and the New Information Age

Along with rapid advancements in AI research, there are increasing concerns, stemming from a growing disconnect between the technology-centric approach to the creation of AI technologies and their inextricable embedding into complex social contexts.

About How Might We Learn?When people talk about the most rewarding, high-growth periods of their lives, a pattern emerges: they learned a lot, but learning wasn’t the point. Instead, they were immersed in some purpose with real personal meaning—like a startup, a research project, or a burning question—and they learned whatever was important along the way. If these experiences are so rewarding, why are they so rare? Why can’t we learn everything by “just diving in”? Why does learning so often fail to work as we hope, leaving us with brittle, fragmentary understanding? In this talk, Andy Matuschak will propose some paths forward and suggest how AI could help us create powerful new kinds of enabling environments.

About the SpeakerAndy Matuschak is an independent researcher focused on inventing mediums that expand human intellectual and creative capacity. His recent work has centered on rethinking the book to actively help people remember, understand, and use what they read. Before establishing his own lab, Andy led Khan Academy’s R&amp;D team and helped build iOS at Apple.

About AI and the New Information AgeIn 2019, GPT-2 could not reliably count to ten. Only four years later, deep learning systems can write software, generate photorealistic scenes on demand, advise on intellectual topics, and combine language and image processing to steer robots. As AI developers scale these systems, unforeseen abilities and behaviors emerge spontaneously without explicit programming. Progress in AI has been swift and, to many, surprising.— Managing AI Risks in an Era of Rapid Progress, Bengio, Hinton, et al.Along with rapid advancements in AI research, there are increasing concerns. Many concerns stem from a growing disconnect between the technology-centric approach to the creation of AI technologies and their inextricable embedding into complex personal, social, and cultural contexts. The theme of the Spring 2024 Design@Large is AI and the New Information Age. A primary focus is designing information spaces, places that foster thinking, in this new information age.

How to get to the Design and Innovation Building on the UC San Diego campus<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o5zQNd3rVxgHPuOZ8iuRdINiDSaDO5T6SRFC0e67lQg/edit?usp=sharing" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o5zQNd3rVxgHPuOZ8iuRdINiDSaDO5T6SRFC0e67lQg/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here</a> for information about transportation options to get to the Design and Innovation Building.If you are experiencing any COVID-like symptoms the day of the event, please join us remotely.<a href="https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/92265948771?pwd=ZXY3d280MTJzc1FMekswbkNFTDZXZz09" title="https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/92265948771?pwd=ZXY3d280MTJzc1FMekswbkNFTDZXZz09" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ZOOM LINK</a>

Health, Mental Health, and the Architecture of Value-Based Care in AI

UCSD Design & Innovation Building Room 208

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