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'The heart of the building': AI pumps life into architecture at Microsoft through interactive 'Ada'

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Art and architecture already speaks to us on a multitude of levels. A new installation on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash., communicates in a new way, using artificial intelligence to "read the room" and become an interactive element reacting to people in the space. As part of the tech giant's Artist in Residence program, "Ada" has been installed in Microsoft's Building 99. Ada -- named for the 19th century mathematician Ada Lovelace -- is a two-story, 1,800-pound web of hexagons forming an ellipsoid-shaped pavilion. The exoskeleton, which is reminiscent of The Spheres on Amazon's campus in Seattle, contains 895 3D-printed nodes that connect 1,274 fiberglass rods, and a web of fabric digitally knit with photoluminescent yarn.