CMU School of Drama


Friday, October 25, 2024

Starting Your AI Journey

www.specialevents.com: There’s no escaping it: AI is here. Even if you haven’t taken the leap and experimented with it yet, you’ve likely found yourself amid several conversations on the subject. With so much information out there, it can be confusing to know where to start. But not to worry—we're here to help! Welcome to the Special Events crash course in using AI in the events industry.

2 comments:

Nick Wylie said...

I think AI has every opportunity to be one of the best things humanity has ever invented, potentially having the capacity to slingshot us into the quantum age faster than humans alone could ever achieve. AI could be such a useful companion to humankind, the biggest problem is how people decide to use it. I think that a good amount of people would use AI not just for themselves, but for trying to forward humanity in its knowledge and understanding of the universe. I do know that there would be an equal or larger number of people that would use it to take advantage of doing a job easier and faster than a human would, which is a fine line to draw in terms of ethics. Corporations would of course take advantage of it to cut production costs and lay off human workers instead of integrating it with current production models. I think people shouldn't be fearful of AI itself, but rather the people or companies that would use it to leverage an advantage over other humans

Josh Hillers said...

Reading about the use of AI for some event planning and how AI is beginning to be incorporated into this industry, I wonder about where AI will be incorporated into theater on the production end of our work in ways that will increase the efficiency of our work. My initial reaction is that AI might be most useful from a Production Management perspective in terms of being able to evaluate certain calendars, agendas, and workflows to see how they can be improved, or to invent their own systems for these needs. But, upon reflection, AI might be a more difficult tool to use given the wide variety of factors at play for the creation of each load in calendar, production meeting agenda, or departmental organization as venues themselves are incredibly different, the technical capabilities and limitations of these spaces vary dramatically and are hard to account for, and often theater management is very specific to individuals or departments. Lots of this information is hard to represent in data, so while I am hopeful about AI being used to increase efficiency in theater, I am currently unsure how lots of these approaches may come into play.