Karaoke isn't about sounding good. It's about sounding terrible together. We often celebrate virtuosic creativity: grand composers, great artists, and master builders. But so much of human creative activity is about the process of creation, not the product. We make terrible things for fun, to learn, as therapy, and especially as a social activity. How can we help creators build their bad ideas joyfully and well?"

Dr Kate Compton (@galaxykate) is a long-time generative artist, inventor, programmer, and Assistant Professor of Instruction at Northwestern University. She wrote the first paper on procedural platform-game levels, generated the planets for the video game Spore, created the language Tracery which runs over 10000 community-made bots on Twitter, and invented an early phone-based AR system. Her mission is to design artificial intelligence to augment human creativity, and to create tools that bring AI into the hands of poets, artists, kids, and weirdos.