CUNY AI Lab’s Inference Arcade

The CUNY AI Lab (CAIL) is a faculty- and staff-led initiative based at the Graduate Center that supports experimentation with AI by teachers and researchers across disciplines. Funded by the Office of Academic Affairs and jointly administered by Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, the Teaching and Learning Center, the Mina Rees Library, and the American Social History Project, the Lab builds infrastructure aligned with the university’s public-serving mission. Our experimental tools frame generative AI as a set of techniques that can be prototyped, evaluated, and iteratively developed, with user agency and explicit retention policies at the center of our approach to critical making and public advocacy.

During our demo at NYC PIT Pop Up, visitors will be encouraged to explore Agent Studio (a tool that facilitates research workflows for data exploration and visualization), Site Studio (a tool to build websites through conversation), and our dedicated sandbox environment (via Open WebUI) for general experimentation. We will also showcase media processing tools for image description, audio transcription, and optical character recognition. Lastly, visitors will be able to try our game-based applications, which include Cloze Reader (an AI-enabled reading game featuring Project Gutenberg texts), JeopardyLM (a customizable game-based learning tool), and a prototype where visitors can prompt AI models to play games and evaluate their performance in real time.