Watching “Machines” See
Input: 07.09.2021
Recognizing visual patterns: Edges, Shapes, and Colours
- !Mediengruppe Bitnik SAME SAME. WATCHING ALGORITHMS - CABARET VOLTAIRE EDITION 2015
- Mario Klingemann & Simon Doury X Degrees of Separation, 2018
Attributing Meaning; Training sets and labeling
- !Mediengruppe Bitnik! Dada. State of the Reference, 2017
- Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, “Excavating AI: The Politics of Training Sets for Machine Learning (September 19, 2019) https://excavating.ai (taxonomy - class - labeled image) Training Humans. Fondazine Prada (12 Sep 2019 – 24 Feb 2020)
- Politics of Labeling: Making Categories, outsourcing labor (see below Mechanical Turk)
Boundaries between human and the non-human
- Dvorsky, George. 2013. “Freakishly Realistic Telemarketing Robots Are Denying They’re Robots.”. Io9.Gizmodo.Com (Dec. 12). 2013.
- Dvorsky, George. 2013. “Robot-Denying Telemarketing Robot May Not Actually Be a Robot.” Io9.Gizmodo.Com (Dec. 18). 2013.
- MTurk: “artificial artificial intelligence“ (Jeff Bezos)
- Hitlin, Paul. 2016. “Research in the Crowdsourcing Age, a Case Study.” Pew Research Center (July).
- Crockett, Zachary. 2019. “How Much Money Can You Make on Amazon Mechanical Turk?” The Hustle (July 13). 2019.
- Latour, Bruno. 1989. “The Moral Dilemmas of a Safety-Belt.” Translated by Lydia Davis. Traduction Inédite En Anglais.
- Google Duplex: Let AI make a phone call for you (2018 demo, real-life social problems and ecological costs).
- Kate Crawford& Vladan Joler (2018) Anatomy of an AI System.
Authorship, Copyright and AI
Portrait of Edmond Belamy, 2018 by Obvious (Pierre Fautrel, Hugo Caselles-Dupré, and Gauthier Vernier) Sold for $432,500 at Christie’s (Oct 25), (selling estimate: 10'000)
- Vincent, James. 2018. “How Three French Students Used Borrowed Code to Put the First AI Portrait in Christie’s.” The Verge. (October 23).
- Christie’s. 2018. “The First Piece of AI-Generated Art to Come to Auctio Christie’s.” Christies.Com (Dec. 12).
- Boddington, Ruby. 2020. “‘These Are Important Visual Moments’: Artist Robbie Barrat Pushes, Tests and Breaks AI in His Works.” It’s Nice That (February 24).
Cornelia Sollfrank: Net.Art Generator Smart Artists make the machine do the work, since 1997
- Legal Perspective, Plug-in Basel
- Stalder, Felix. 2014. “Urheberrecht - Wenn Das Recht Kunstfeindlich Wird.” Kunstbulletin, 2014.