By DAVID DUPONT
BG Independent News
Some are concerned that artificial intelligence may pose a threat to the arts. Yamin Xu’s “The post-sequel of connections” used artificial intelligence as a subject to show it may not be ready for prime time.
It did make a few people happy though.
The digital arts professor constructed a robotic camera that captured the images of viewers, and then determined using A.I. their gender, their mood, and their age.
Women with short hair threw it off in terms of gender. If you weren’t smiling it determined you were sad. And it consistently pegged people in their 70s as being in their 30s. Maybe A.I. isn’t so bad? At least for the elders. Seems college-age women were also in the 30s.
Xu explained that the point was show the flaws in the technology.
The images of viewers were then added to a grid of portraits.
“The post-sequel of connections” is included in the Faculty and Staff Exhibit in the Bryan Gallery that opened Saturday during the 20th ArtsX.
The event featured authentic arts in all their forms, jammed into the School of Arts and the Wolff Center. Some sort of real-life creativity was happening around every corner. It may have been a Latin band or a comedian. A painter or a dancer or something else altogether.
Charles Kanwischer, director of the School of Art, proclaimed it an “X-cellent ArtsX.”
perception of time and their relationship to it.’
