An exercise in learning what "they" don't say when they speak
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School of Arts, Design and Architecture |
Master's thesis
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P1 OPINNÄYTTEET D 2019 Amjad
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Date
2019
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Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art
ViCCA
ViCCA
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en
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36
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Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) will surpass human intelligence significantly in less than 50 years if the trend of exponential growth of its computing power holds true. AI’s ability to process trillions of gbs of data patterns within hours and to predict outcomes with increasing accuracy has made it the most sought-after technology of the 21st Century. Its use by governments and multinational corporations without gathering much attention has radically impacted all aspects of human life. AI technologies have maintained complete invisibility yet are omnipresent, precisely the reason for the illusion of absence of their political and material effects. AI machines are modeled after the human brain and much like the latter they create learning methodologies (algorithms) on their own in their digital computational space to handle complexities that only the human brain could have dealt with previously. The evolution of these machines into entities that can soon match the complexity of thought of a human brain has raised multiple philosophical and ethical questions. Amongst these is the classic conundrum of machines becoming conscious and developing emotions and intentionality of their own. How should humans treat such entities and how will such entities treat humans? Can they co-exist? A new paradigm of cognitive, imaginative and physical change awaits us. In order to reconfigure our agency in a world run by AI it is crucial to understand the technology we are dealing with. For this purpose, the thesis adopts a methodology which splits in two. The thesis work for its first part employs textual research based argumentative analysis of the origination of Artificial Intelligence and the developing concerns regarding machine consciousness. The work also identifies and deconstructs the functioning and effects of systems employed by owners of AI for computation and control of society. The work utilizes its findings to suggest installation of ethical codes in the AI and testing of these technologies in Virtual Reality (VR). Such an experiment promises to disclose secrets about human consciousness itself and also enrich the developing field of ethics. The second part of the thesis adapts the Truing test format to engage with an actual AI in a game of Chinese whispers instead of a direct recursive interrogation of AI. Through feeding non-language sounds as inputs to the AI the work excites and reveals the imagination of AI which remains locked in its computational space otherwise. The project is presented as a Video Artwork and supplements the learnings from the textual part of the thesis. The thesis work in its entirety is not an attempt to further an agenda against AI technologies but rather encourages investigation of this technology through the lenses of Art and Philosophy. These fields are perhaps better equipped to understand the abstractions of a technology that mimics its complex human creators.Description
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Laakso, HarriThesis advisor
Laakso, HarriKeywords
artificial intelligence, algorithms, consciousness, mind, games, gammification, game theory, cybernetics
