Anatomy of an AI System / Kate Crawford, Vladan Joler
The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources.
The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources.
“Telephony allows gallery visitors to dial into a wall based grid of 42 Siemens mobile telephones, which in turn begin to call each other and create a piece of ‘music.'”
See also other projects of the artists.
http://www.thomson-craighead.net/
MIT project to develop a collection (a “hypergraph”) of “Common Sense Knowledge”.
“To improve computers’ understanding of the world that people live in and talk about, we need to provide them with usable knowledge about the basic relationships between things that nearly every person knows.”
The data set is free to download and explorable online.
https://conceptnet.io
The installation tries to simulate and visualize the process of memory by algorithmically combining visual material from newsfeeds.