The Daily Boost #618
Look into this machine mind as it dreams of art
What would a machine mind dream after “seeing” the vast collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)?
“Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA” is a constantly evolving response to that question, made possible by Refik Anadol. It uses artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art from MoMA's collection to continuously generates new forms on a large-scale media wall measuring approximately 24 × 24 feet.
I find the “dreamscape” mesmerizing, but I’m wondering what you think . . .
(My thanks to Refik Anadol and the Museum of Modern Art, via Artist in New York City.)
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Reminds me of a giant lava lamp
That was just amazing. I was fascinated by the blending and churning of all the colors that had been "fed" to the AI and how it kept colors together and didn't just turn it to black or white. I've been learning a lot about AI, especially as it relates to Learning & Development. I think there is some cause to be wary, but overall, it is just feeding back/interpreting what is put in. Unfortunately, there is a lot of garbage that large language model AI has been fed, including bias, conspiracy theory and just a lot of lies. LLMs take all this in and may even "make up" answers to questions that are fed in. These are the "hallucinations" that the artist counted on for this work. the onus is on the user to review and vet the output before it is truly useful. However, THIS particular AI was only fed modern art from the past 200 years - nothing but washes of color and beauty from this machine. I loved it. I would love to see what it does with artwork from the Metropolitan or some other gallery with traditional portraiture and landscapes....I wonder what that would look like as hallucinations....