Week 10 Reading Response

How does AI work through our life? I kept asking this questions recently. Is it more about giving people a convenient life or about pushing people into an insecure situation? The article “Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)” gave me a new perspective on AI.  With the help of computer vision, our photos on social media become tools for some people or some agencies to steal information from us. Our privacies are not only being public but also being used or watched. These are some quotes from this article which gave me some inspirations “As such, the machine-machine landscape forms a kind of hyper-ideology that is especially pernicious precisely because it makes claims to objectivity and equality.  

Eradicate bias from the training data, the logic goes, and algorithmic operations will be decidedly less racist than human-human interactions. Program the algorithms to see everyone equally and the humans they so lovingly oversee shall be equal. I am not convinced.

The invisible world of images isn’t simply an alternative taxonomy of visuality. It is an active, cunning, exercise of power, one ideally suited to molecular police and market operations–one designed to insert its tendrils into ever-smaller slices of everyday life.

These seem all about opposite sides of computational innovation. So, what will the innovation focus on to make people feel happiness?

The video “What is Polychromatic Music?” on Youtube gave me a basic sense of the future instruments and music will like. In the video, she shows the polychromatic instruments. The differences in appearance are focused on the player could play multi-tone through vertical and horizontal dimensions. And the notation of polychromatic instruments add color to describe music. For her, the color notation seems like a great jump which adds a dimension of thinking when play music. It is just like a slice of connection between visual art and music. With the help by these kinds of instruments, we could hear beautiful harmony played only by one person and one instrument.

Recently I saw a TED talk called Design at the Intersection of technology and biology by Neri Oxman, which let me think a lot about future art and design. What will artist or designer do to increase the happiness of people’s lives or keep innovation? The answer may be in finding connection and creating possibility between two or multi nature worlds (existing world, like color and music). Like in the talk, Oxman said: “Here’s to a new age of design, a new age of creation, that takes us from a nature-inspired design to a design-inspired nature, and that demands of us for the first time that we mother nature”. From my understanding, the artist will not necessary to follow the technology trend but they should more creativity on linking possible connection in this world. I hope this will be the source and motive power through my future work.

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