“Showcasing a dataset is like exposing the DNA of the model.”
Nature, speculation and artificial intelligence
Anna Ridler spins the sublime out of cold, hard data. One of her early collaborative works, Alice and Bob (2017) is composed of two screens that display love letters between an imaginary couple. The declarations are so emotive it is hard to believe that the generative algorithm behind them is trained solely on sterile, scientific texts. “Is this all we should expect? We hoped for more,” one machine asks the other. Anna uses artificial intelligence to better understand human desire and h