{"id":11167,"date":"2023-08-12T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-neutral-algorithm-the-existential-ai-exhibition-confronting-sydney\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T01:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:38:17","slug":"theres-no-such-thing-as-a-neutral-algorithm-the-existential-ai-exhibition-confronting-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-neutral-algorithm-the-existential-ai-exhibition-confronting-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s no such thing as a neutral algorithm\u2019: the existential AI exhibition confronting Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer\u2019s Atmospheric Memory allows visitors to interact with generative tech \u2013 and become part of the show in unexpected ways<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Y2K seemed like the world\u2019s most pressing technological concern, the Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was using a dictionary and a set of grammatical rules to teach a computer how to write questions. The program he built can make enquiries in Spanish, English, German and French, in 4.7tn possible combinations. When the artwork showed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last year, it still had 271,000 years of new questions to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Which is to say, Lozano-Hemmer has been working with generative technology long enough to have learned a powerful lesson: \u201cThere is no such thing as a neutral algorithm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2023\/aug\/12\/rafael-lozano-hemmers-atmospheric-memory-exhibition-powerhouse-museum-sydney-things-to-do-weekend\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e1ef790971d71e15ed53f90f56a84584c5969ba4\/0_108_3019_1812\/master\/3019.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=98e1b1a95d10d8e67b3a0aa0c881e2b8\" title=\"\u2018There\u2019s no such thing as a neutral algorithm\u2019: the existential AI exhibition confronting Sydney\" \/>Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer\u2019s Atmospheric Memory allows visitors to interact with generative tech \u2013 and become part of the show in unexpected ways<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nWhen Y2K seemed like the world\u2019s most pressing technological concern, the Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was using a dictionary and a set of grammatical rules to teach a computer how to write questions. The program he built can make enquiries in Spanish, English, German and French, in 4.7tn possible combinations. When the artwork showed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last year, it still had 271,000 years of new questions to ask.<br \/>\nWhich is to say, Lozano-Hemmer has been working with generative technology long enough to have learned a powerful lesson: \u201cThere is no such thing as a neutral algorithm.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer\u2019s Atmospheric Memory allows visitors to interact with generative tech \u2013 and become part of the show in unexpected ways Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email When Y2K seemed like the world\u2019s most pressing technological concern, the Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was using a dictionary and a set of grammatical rules to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-neutral-algorithm-the-existential-ai-exhibition-confronting-sydney\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018There\u2019s no such thing as a neutral algorithm\u2019: the existential AI exhibition confronting Sydney<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}