In this work, we took a small detour from our main journey, in favour of a short colourful moment of reflection. We kept true to our mission, and used “AI” to generate digital art work, though not in the expected sense.
In this work, we took a small detour from our main journey, in favour of a short colourful moment of reflection. We kept true to our mission, and used “AI” to generate digital art work, though not in the expected sense.
Inspiration
It was the summer of 2020, we were discussing new AI & Art projects ideas, and the world around us was spiralling. The dissonance was impossible to ignore. Inside our confined walls, we were surrounded by the vast and fast growing world of AI. Billions of dollars worth of datasets and TPU years, as well thousands of human years captured in research papers. All in the name of an implicit or explicit promise for a better future in science, health, agriculture, energy management, transportation, information consumption, human machine interaction, etc. Yet, it all seemed so disconnected from the reality of the world outside.
These marvels of science and technology, these machine olympics — were mesmerising in their inhuman ability to capture details and patterns. However, they were as inhuman in their inability to see neither the issues, nor the bigger picture.