Alcova Panel: The designer, the algorithm, the crowd
On April 16, HILOS hosted a panel at Alcova featuring several giants of European design and architecture for Milan Design Week 2024.
On April 16, HILOS hosted a panel at Alcova featuring several giants of European design and architecture: Carlo Ratti (MIT professor and current organizer of the Venice Biennale), Arturo Tedeschi (acclaimed author and architect), and James Carnes (HILOS Wearables, former Adidas Creative Director), moderated by journalist, writer, and podcaster David Plaisant.
A few really memorable moments in a very real and impressive conversation between three giants: Carlo Ratti put it eloquently but forcefully: AI requires a huge amount of energy and we have to really weigh the value versus the cost in social applications. Arturo Tedeschi remains an optimist about how institutions will adapt, seeing AI as providing more potential answers to a problem without necessarily taking the human out of the loop in making decisions. James Carnes was more adroit: we have to learn how to ask the right questions, he said, if we’re going to get valuable answers. All agreed that the data sets that inform the models need a lot more transparency, and that dialogue was more important now, than ever.
— Elias Stahl, CEO of HILOS