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The Future of AI in Speculative Design /w Sures Kumar, DeepMind

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The Future of AI in Speculative Design /w Sures Kumar, DeepMind

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The pace of AI disruption is hard to keep up with, and each advancement is completely changing our understanding of technical affordance in many domains. One of the ongoing discussions of great interest to us are questions around AI systems being creative and what is the role of the designer in an AI future. And more specifically, with our interest in Speculative Design and futures work, what is the role of AI in understanding and imagining the future?

We are really excited to be joined by Sures Kumar from DeepMind, to help us explore these questions. Sures will share one of his personal projects where he as worked to build AI into every step of the Speculative Design and Foresight process, creating a fully automated futures speculation engine. His learnings from these experiments and knowledge of AI application give us important insight into where these AI advancements are heading and what their impact will be on disciplines like Speculative Design.

Hope you'll join us! Come with your questions and curiosity!

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Sures Kumar

Sures currently works at Google DeepMind focusing on designing for AI. Previously, he has led interactions for multiple high profile projects like Responsible Gen AI, Quantum AI, TensorFlow, Coral, AIY Projects, next gen Google Lens and has also contributed to Google Pixel Camera, Android AI, Google Play and G Suites. Prior to Google, Sures worked at Meta, Microsoft and Local Projects where he designed Instagram and Facebook AI tools, Microsoft Office mobile apps and interactive museum installations.

https://sureskumar.com/

https://www.design-frontier.com/

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