dreaming – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Latent Space https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/latent-space/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:27:05 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3556

Jake Elwes (UK)

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fast becoming part of everyday life. Based on AI models currently used, among other things, in content moderation and surveillance, the artworks explore the “latent space” of the AI as it processes and imagines the world for itself, dreaming in the areas between and beyond what it has learnt from us.

Latent Space has been created by an artificial intelligence (AI)—an algorithm used to generate images based on how the human brain works to make sense of data. The AI was trained by inputting 14.2 million photographs. Once it has built neural connections to comprehend the data it can begin to dream in the areas between and beyond what it has learnt from us: a digital abstracted subconscious conceiving of new images and visualizing a “latent space”.

Credits

www.jakeelwes.com
Special thanks to Anh Nguyen et al. at Evolving-AI for their work on GANs

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