TIME100 AI Innovators: Sougwen Chung

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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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00:00 (upbeat music)

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.

00:54 (upbeat music)

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