Fragments

I made this knob-looking set of text masks over a random selection of text from a transcript of this Congressional AI hearing from last year, while I watched the hearing. It's amazing (but not at all surprising) the extent to which the industry is controlling so much of the narrative around how it is integrated into society. The mask moves at 15 degrees each screenshot, which is just enough to ensure the full circle is revealed by these twelve masks.

Here's each mask, in order, if you'd like to check them out more closely.

From a 1940s Life and a '90s Wired. All of the greens!

I found this Kandinsky book, Point and Line to Plane, which is all manifesto-y and full of heady ideas about art and geometry.

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Wassily Kandinsky - Point and Line to Plane, 1926

This black-and-white sketch of "Black Triangle" caught my attention.

I didn't try to match the geometry or subtle color composition of the original.

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Category:Black Triangle - Wassily Kandinsky - Wikimedia Commons

Cut some stuff up, and wound up with this:

I kept working with some of the Kandinsky language, and started with that for this one, which also includes stuff from and '80s Games magazine, this summer's Marine Layer catalog, and a weird political cartoon from an '80s Newsweek.

(The political cartoon, which is worth seeing. Why is that portrait of Lennon there? Are they trolling?)

Fun collage from last night, from two '90s issues of Wired and a Marine Layer catalogue that no one who lives in my house requested. Under the knife it goes!

In which the authors create a neural network inside of Age of Empires... A nice counterpoint to the relentless anthropomorphizing of AI.

Our goal is not to argue in favour or against the existence of these attributes, but to point out that these conclusions could be incorrect. For this we build and train a simple neural network on the videogame Age of Empires II, and note that any entity in a sufficiently-powerful substrate, such as LEGO or the Greater Boston Area, could also present such attributes.