Dvorak, AI & Musical Discovery
a conversation with Filippo Ciabatti (Director of Orchestral and Choral Programs) and Nikhil Singh (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director, Digital Arts Program)Can AI open up new frontiers of musical discovery?
Dvořák's New World Symphony emerged from a process of discovery through listening, of encountering unfamiliar musical traditions and hearing possibilities others had overlooked. In this discussion, Ciabatti talks with Singh about how this story connects to a longer history of technologies that have changed how composers listen, and whether AI, thoughtfully designed, might play a role in that history.
In 1956, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project launched the field of artificial intelligence. It was here in Hanover that the term was coined and the foundational question was asked: can machines solve problems once reserved for human minds? Seventy years later, Dartmouth will convene an anniversary conference to continue the conversation—this time focused not on what AI can do, but on what humans must do in its presence.
The original meeting asked how machines could think. This one asks a different set of questions: Where does AI genuinely improve human decision-making? And where must judgment remain human?
From October 29–31, that inquiry will draw leaders from government, industry and academia, and mark the release of new research on the relationship between AI and human capability. This event is supported in part by The Rockefeller Foundation, which helped fund the original gathering in 1956.
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