Description
Exploring how researchers have illustrated artificial intelligence over the decades could help us build it better.
Summary
- Philipp Schmitt is an artist, designer, researcher and 2019-21 Transformations of the Human fellow at the Berggruen Institute.
- These diagrams may seem cryptic to the uninitiated, but to experts they read as architectural blueprints.
- But the perceptron’s “retina” is square, unlike any organism with eyes, and Rosenblatt’s team experimented with different types of diagrams, perhaps illustrating a desire to overcome laborious pseudo-anatomical references to find a different way of representing cognitive functions.
- Instead of projecting onto a metal humanoid, a poetic reading of metaphor and symbolism in AI diagrams prompts us to consider how their creators think about cognition.