playing – 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 Deltu https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/deltu/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 07:48:57 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=1718

Alexia Lechot (CH)

Deltu is a delta robot with a strong personality that interacts with humans through two iPads. Depending on its mood it plays with the recipients.

But if they make too many mistakes Deltu might just get upset and decide to ignore them. Frustrated, Deltu will leave the game and take some selfies to post on Instagram.

Credits

Supported by ECAL, École cantonale d’art de Lausanne

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QUT Guerrilla Knowledge Unit

Artificial intelligence is inspired by human experience. But how might we create smart machines that are inspired by diverse human perspectives?

This lab encourages you to explore this by “coding” your body (and others) to perform a series of interactive, collaborative, and highly playful instructions, using lo-fi and low-tech materials. Get ready to transform into smart machines.

Credits

QUT Guerrilla Knowledge Unit (GKU)
Jacina Leong, Linda Knight, Jess Martin, Dee Armstrong, Xue Ning Lee

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Joseph Herscher (NZ)

Machines are usually designed to achieve a task as efficiently as possible. One of the things that separates humans from machines is our ability to play. If life becomes all about efficiently achieving goals then it can become meaningless. Humans need to play! So what happens when there is true artificial intelligence? Will machines play too?

The Spiral Falls sorting machine will take on a new role in this year: Joseph Herscher, the artist and Youtube personality from New York, will persuade the former package-slide machine to do a very human task: Since it is not being used for a huge logistic system anymore, and has been left all by itself, this big machine somehow got bored. So the spiral falls starts to play, only using objects that it “knows” from its past. Boxes, envelopes, poster tubes, gifts, toys, dolls or anything else that might once have been sent through it in a package. The actions it undertakes seem very curious—although they run to a fixed schedule and have defined roles in the whole playing system. This might leave visitors asking: where is the neuronal control for that? Is the machine playing by itself? Maybe the spiral falls just represent something that is not visible at all: the formation of creativity and complex ideas that might consist of inspiration we get from different influences—also from machines that seem to do only what we tell them to.

Credit: Martin Hieslmair

Commissioned by Ars Electronica
www.josephsmachines.com

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How does an artificial intelligence actually process graphic information? Here the arrangement of countless quadratic pixels can be tried out the other way round.

You can use quadratic magnets to reconstruct photos or create your own pixel artworks. What might a seemingly chaotic array look like from another perspective? This project is designed especially for younger children who need a playful approach to understanding artificial intelligence. Of course, there is a painting station right nearby so we can show the machines how we human beings design pictures.

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