Trevor Paglen
From 'Apple' to 'Anomaly'
26 Sep 2019 - 16 Feb 2020
TREVOR PAGLEN
From 'Apple' to 'Anomaly'
26 September 2019 - 16 February 2020
Artist Trevor Paglen’s new Curve commission takes as its starting point the way in which AI networks are taught how to ‘see’ and ‘perceive’ the world by taking a closer look at image datasets.
Paglen has incorporated approximately 30,000 individually printed photographs, largely drawn from ImageNet, the most widely shared, publicly available dataset. This dataset is archived and pre-selected in categories by humans, and widely used for training AI networks. In some cases, the connotations of categories are uncontroversial, others, for example ‘bad person’ or ‘debtors’, are not. These categories, when used in AI, suggest a world in which machines will be able to elicit forms of judgement against humankind.
Discover how the advent of autonomous computer vision and AI has developed, rife with hidden politics, biases and stereotypes.
From 'Apple' to 'Anomaly'
26 September 2019 - 16 February 2020
Artist Trevor Paglen’s new Curve commission takes as its starting point the way in which AI networks are taught how to ‘see’ and ‘perceive’ the world by taking a closer look at image datasets.
Paglen has incorporated approximately 30,000 individually printed photographs, largely drawn from ImageNet, the most widely shared, publicly available dataset. This dataset is archived and pre-selected in categories by humans, and widely used for training AI networks. In some cases, the connotations of categories are uncontroversial, others, for example ‘bad person’ or ‘debtors’, are not. These categories, when used in AI, suggest a world in which machines will be able to elicit forms of judgement against humankind.
Discover how the advent of autonomous computer vision and AI has developed, rife with hidden politics, biases and stereotypes.