When machine learning and the use of computers are emphasized in artistic research, in reconstructions, or in beauty contests, viewers often take the results to be scientific, objective, and unbiased. But they are not.
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Posted inFilm
Using AI to Question What Art Is
Lawrence Lek’s AIDOL tells the story of an AI composer making music in a world rendered in video game graphics.
Posted inIn Brief
Critics Say Facebook’s Measures to Limit Manipulated Videos Are Insufficient
“Facebook wants you to think the problem is video-editing technology, but the real problem is Facebook’s refusal to stop the spread of disinformation,” said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Posted inNews
600,000 Images Removed from AI Database After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias
The image tagging system that went viral on social media was part of artist Trevor Paglen and AI researcher Kate Crawford’s attempts to publicize how prejudiced technology can be.
Posted inArt
How One Meme Reveals the Difference in How Humans and AI “See”
As AI technology grows more sophisticated, neural networks can generate pictures people are comfortable looking at. It takes a surreal reject of an image to remind us of how differently a computer perceives the world.
Posted inArt
Artificial Intelligence as a Godlike Tool for Experimentation
The AI-powered art exhibition Forging the Gods portrays the interaction between humans and machines in a nuanced manner.
Posted inArt
The Gamification of Intimacy Through Dating Sims
Digital technologies for games are developing at an unprecedented pace, compelling us ask how they are potentially shifting society’s relationship to intimacy and social interaction.
Posted inIn Brief
One Very Special AI Robot Is Granted Saudi Citizenship
The robot’s new status raises questions about AI’s future, the treatment of women, and the meaning of citizenship.
Posted inInteractive
An AI Tool Predicts City Wealth Based on Satellite Imagery
Penny is an experiment in what high and low income areas look like to an AI trained on satellite imagery and census data.
Posted inNews
Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel
Computer scientists at Rutgers University developed a system to generate artworks that were deemed more communicative and inspiring than human-made art.
Posted inArt
An Interdisciplinary Look at the Differences Between Human and Artificial Sight
The first special exhibition at the newly reopened Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami explores how brains, eyes, and artificial intelligence perceive the world.
Posted inIn Brief
New Google Project Aims to Put the AI in “Artist”
Can artificial intelligence create art?