Much ado about AI- scientist, musician, artist, and writer walk into a debate
by Vaish Sagar | at Minnebar 19
What happens when a scientist, a painter, a writer, and a musician sit down and start talking about AI? A lively debate about creativity, innovation, and whether machines are stepping on human toes.
But beyond the debate, what do artists actually want from AI? What tools would truly help them create? Our panelists explore what AI should build to empower creativity.
Vaish Sagar
I'm an AI engineer, full-stack developer, and two-time founder with a Master's in Computer Science specializing in NLP from Arizona State University. Recognized by the U.S. government with an O-1A for extraordinary abilities in AI, I have five years of experience spanning enterprise data engineering at Oracle, consumer product development, and applied AI research. I've built and shipped two startup platforms from scratch, was a Sequoia Capital Arc Accelerator finalist, and was featured on Fox9 News for consumer tech innovation. What sets my work apart is where it lives: at the intersection of AI and music. I've built AI tools inside DAW environments, applied music theory principles to reduce artifacts in AI-generated audio, and trained a GPT-style transformer from scratch to study musical structures in song lyrics. As a guitarist and vocalist, I bring a musician's ear to my technical work. My current project, "What Does B-Major Sound Like in a Parallel Universe?", is a reflection of that curiosity, of exploring what music could be.