Artificial Intelligence, AI, has increasingly been creeping into our lives, while it helps to fuel entertainment systems and may provide ease into our everyday, its dominance could threaten society’s social fabric as for quite some time now, AI has been knocking at the door of people’s jobs. It’s the scale of things that make most pause for reflection, with questions prevailing on how our societies will function, which powers will be/are behind the AI, will it help prevent biases or bring them out. The lack so far of much reassurance or regulation needed to protect citizens is a worry for some, to the point that many experts are asking for a pause in AI development.
AI like most things is a tool, it can be used for ‘good’ or for ‘bad’, who decides what sits in which category, is at the core of many discussions when it comes to AI being implemented into our day to day.
‘Bringing The Human to The Artificial’ at Kings College London is an exhibition exploring Artificial Intelligence. It is presented by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with King's Culture, highlighting the university's research of the effects of artificial intelligence on different parts of our lives. It's fascinating to view at the exhibition the different projects on what AI can do, where it is headed and the effects it will increasingly have on us, in a variety of fields such as law, health, security, engineering and the arts. No doubt AI will progressively enter these fields, thus the research presented is important to view and discover.
Below are some of the projects artists with scientists and academics have been involved in that the university are highlighting and working with.
MERCY is an interactive video game by Cari Hyde-Vaamonde, PhD Candidate in The Dickson Poon School of Law and Vivienne Griffin, Somerset House Studios Resident, that explores the role of AI and algorithms in judicial systems, in a period when moves to implement algorithms have been accelerated by the pandemic as courts struggle with demand.
Thinking about: would you trust an AI court of law? Would the justice system made in artificial intelligence be more just?
The Creative AI Lab is a collaboration between the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and the Research & Development Platform of the Serpentine Galleries, and was founded by Mercedes Bunz and Eva Jäger in 2019.
"The Creative AI Lab is an ongoing project to aggregate tools and resources for artists, engineers, curators & researchers interested in incorporating machine learning (ML) and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) into their practice." @ Kings College London
Created by Munkhtulga Battogtokh in collaboration with Alice White their work looks at the ever-closing gap between human and artificial intelligence, looking at the boundaries between them, reflecting on the capabilities and limitations of our own mind.
"The lenticular medium allows our artwork to change as one walks along the exhibit. Therefore, it invites the audience to move along the piece to see it from different physical perspectives, each of which will present them with various abstract perspectives of real-life objects that we cannot directly observe in reality but can only find in art. Thus, our artwork illustrates to the audience that human perspectives go beyond reality and that only art captures those perspectives without ever leaving the confines of the human mind itself. It not only promotes the application of art in the modern problem of AI development, but it also raises the same timeless question of what it means to be a human from two different starting points: art and AI." @ Kings College London
Designed by AI, a project by Małgorzata Karpinska-Krakowiak, University of Lodz and Stefan F. Bernritter King’s Business School, King’s College London, explores how AI has entered the creative industries, and wether people would cope with AI as a (competing) source of artistic creation
"With the advent of generative artificial intelligence through tools like Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, DALL·E 2, Midjourney, and more, AI has entered the field of creative industries – an area of work that had previously been exclusive to humans – and can now design things like paintings, interior design, or advertising. This introduces important questions and opportunities for businesses." @ Kings College London
'sketches with+for+from ai' by Metem Sahin, "consists of sketches in which the artist tries to understand her style, her works’ symbiotic relationship with machine learning, the new world order, and her position in that order. The first animation on the left 'Let go of the dead' is a starting point of all these sketched shrines, pointed arched doors to other actualities, abstractions, and/or microcosms. They carry their heads almost like a baby, which shows that they lost their lives, and are in a new reality already, while moaning with a silent smile. It begins the “new not normal.” " @ National Gallery
Artwork part of The AI Gallery is conceived by Ali Hossaini and is a joint presentation of National Gallery X and the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub.
'The MOMENT' by Richard Ramchurn "is an adaptive, interactive brain-controlled film that explores contemporary issues of fake and manipulated social media content, digital fascism and how algorithms can influence behaviours, and social trends. This is told through a dystopic sci-fi lens where social media is implemented at a neural level. The viewer's neural reactions are measured by an electroencephalography (EEG) device which uses machine learning to derive their attention. The film's narrative is then constructed in real time as the viewer's rhythms of attention are reflected as cinematic techniques making each viewing of 'The MOMENT' unique to that individual." @ National Gallery
Artwork part of The AI Gallery is conceived by Ali Hossaini and is a joint presentation of National Gallery X and the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub.
Nao, the robot from King's College London, exhibited at 'Bringing the Human to the Artificial '
Baxter, the robot from King's College London, exhibited at 'Bringing the Human to the Artificial '
Bringing the Human to the Artificial exhibition presented by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with King's Culture, showcases cutting-edge research from across the university exploring the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on different aspects of our lives. The exhibition runs from 2 May to 30 June 2023.
Pictures from exhibition © Kings College London and artists