Following the success of MadPrompts 2023, the first generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompt battle on an American university campus, WARF and the UW-Madison Data Science Institute (DSI) hosted MadPrompts 2024 on October 18 in the Discovery Building’s H.F. DeLuca Forum. This year’s event, part of the Wisconsin Science Festival, featured four competitors from different academic disciplines using generative AI tools to create detailed images in response to challenges like, “Fill the hill with something other than flamingoes.”
“The event is a partnership with WARF and DSI, and it’s really great to showcase the cool things DSI does,” says WARF Accelerator Program Manager Lesli Mark, who planned the event with DSI and WARF staff.
“I think we accomplished our mission to engage the community with AI in a non-technical way,” Mark adds. “That’s the beauty of generative AI–you don’t have to be technical to leverage it. It is accessible to everyone.”