One important component of machine learning is that humans have to classify the data
so that computers know what it is they’re looking at.
“What is so exciting about these new algorithms: they have the potential to tell us something new about ourselves (by classifying things for the algorithms or letting them find connections in the classifications between a group of people).
In a way, the deep learning algorithm is picking up traits in our human code that we still haven’t been able to articulate in words. The human code behind these preferences is hidden. The computer code can identify the traits guiding our preferences that we can intuit but not articulate”.
With this last statement I wonder if the stories that the AI’s have chosen to write were connections that they saw in my human code. Traces of a story that might or can be, maybe they even knew that I crave connecting to those places and those people, so they gave me more content and dialogue. And maybe they also saw something in the dreams that hints to some other thing. Or maybe even AI2 didn’t add anything new because it wanted me to see what I’m sharing as it is, questioning my own perception of what I’m doing.
I wonder what would happen if I generated new stories from the ones that were already generated and crossed the stories together with all three AI’s over and over again, switching the stories between them. Would they keep any characteristics from their original AI? Would all of their personalities merge together and create new characters? Could I still recognize traces of my story or a trace of my personality merged with theirs?
So I took the stories and started breeding new stories from them, creating a web between them. Starting each time with a different AI (still using my three AI’s), the stories would at some point go back to the AI it started from but by then it would have become a different story.
These newly bred stories retained a distant hint of the characters of the AI’s.
I read them, and I feel that I know the people behind them, but I can’t remember who they are. It’s not me, it’s not the AI, it’s this new species of people you might meet, or have seen in a hurry but can’t place them anywhere in particular.
It is the AI dream of a person.
This part of the research I showed in a collection of faces, generated from photos I took of my colleagues at FMI., These were merged following a web of the bred of stories from the AI’s The web of stories created a web of uncanny faces,
that are moving and reading the new stories in human and mechanical voices, adding more to this mixing of my consciousness with the AI’s.
I have been working with these AI’s for a year now, and throughout the year I have tried different experiments with different AI generators (Image, Video, Labels, Deep Dream, Voice and more) I am immersed in this digital world of different creatures and different methods, I have transported a part of me into them and a part of them has become part of me.