Artificial intelligence, like human intelligence, gets its education from somewhere.
Artificial intelligence has to be educated and humans have to decide how to educate it.
For example, if an artificial intelligence were trying to predict what the next American president looked like it would look at all past American presidents and more or less average them.
Barack Obama's eyes
Donald Trump’s “hair”
Franklin’s Roosevelt’s lips
George Washington’s nose?
Artificial intelligence is inherently backward-looking.
Artificial intelligence uses what already has been to anticipate what will be
How can we use art to reverse the direction of artificial intelligence, making it a forward-dreaming tool of possibility?
Discussion led by artists: Gretchen Andrew, Libby Heaney, Jake Elwes
In hosting the discussion I have invited Libby and Jake to help me start the conversation and contribute varied perspectives. Worst case, we could have a discussion on our own. In the case of many participants, we would do a large discussion for 30mins and then break into smaller groups to encourage more participation.
We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:This session will be concluded with technical and artistic resources making contributions to forward-thinking AI easy and assessable. The ideas will also be added to a regular column I write for The Art Newspaper with potential for other press siting the Mozilla Festival, should privacy of the idea generators permit.
Gretchen Andrew (born in Los Angeles, 1988) is a search engine and internet imperialist artist who re-educates AI based on potential worlds and futures instead of existing data.