Dear NetBehaviour,
I am a design and art student and have been working on my graduation project
with the topic Artificial Intelligence. My approach is creating an AI-something
to support an everyday activity. However, I am lost. I have done a lot of
research and most of the time I am very critical: A lot of power is given to
algorithms and them working with statistics creates a big and dangerous
mainstream (like those big data algorithms deciding what we see online), some
inventions are dangerous (like self-driving cars) and most of the time
inventions could be cool, if we ignored the evil people behind them.
But I don’t want to create a critical art object, I want to create positive AI.
Something to support us (with a prototype). How could AI support us while not
replacing us? As Joseph Weizenbaum states, a computer cannot be human; but
right now, all those AI developers try to make a human AI happen. I don’t want
deep learning algorithms to analyse movies with their trailers and success
statistics in order to find the solution for the perfect trailer in order to
replace creativity by mainstream in the future. So, supporting us could work by
assisting us… like Siri or Alexa. Maybe I could research an assistant-AI for my
graduation presentation? Well, there is hardly anything it could assist me
with. I don’t want to have AI help me with my content because I dislike content
being build up through statistics. And I want to hold the presentation myself,
I don’t want to listen to computers instead of humans. Everything else just
feels like small gadgets. But maybe AI might help me by creating ideas? Mixing
statistically useful components or, maybe even more interesting, mixing useless
components to create new ideas <http://artbot.space/> (http://artbot.space/
<http://artbot.space/>)? Hm…
My thoughts go on and on. So, what would happen if I thought about the
relationship between AI and us? Or maybe AI could help the relationship between
humans? But not just like an app, where people are assigned to each other. I
don’t know. Would that even really be AI? Or just boring algorithms? Where
would we really need AI? Maybe in nature, or at least outside, where the
surroundings keep changing all the time so we would at least need some kind of
AI for orientation?
Thinking about nature made me think about bees dying. Maybe AI could help us
with the environment if we silly humans don’t do it? Maybe I could create a
small robot to drive around and do some guerilla gardening
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening>
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_gardening>), like loosing a few seeds
in order to have more flowers in cities. What do you think?
Thank you!
Lara
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