The evening of the September 20th will feature a performance of my short film FIVE ECHOES, featuring a live score of dissected and recomposed AI assistant voices. Details here: luga.lu/en/experienc...

The third is The Hope, which asks the question 'What if we thought of AI not as Artificial Intelligence but as Assistive Interface instead? What would this change mean for pur expectations of the tech, what it should do, who it should serve?

The second is The Horizon, which asks the question 'What if the current age of computational abundance comes to an end, and a lone engineer attempted to build a low powered AI assistant out of the scraps of the failed AI-age?'

The first of the three fully interactive devices is The Harbinger, which asks the question 'What if Palantir deepened their relationship with the NHS to "solve" it's crises by creating and deploying a medical smart assistant to replace GPs and "automate care"?'

10 days after this, Keir Starmer announced a drive to 'increase efficiency' in the NHS through, amongst other things, recommending that GPs use AI systems to transcribe their speech and notes.

I designed this to be a fully functional and interactive device, and runs entirely locally with no data centers in its operation. Commissioned by @braiduk.bsky.social. First exhibited two weeks ago at The Lowry in Manchester.

It's a desktop device and voice interface that listens to all patient & GP conversations, sends the info to a Palantir data center, and then returns a 'smart, AI-powered' diagnosis, without the opinion of the GP, whose only role now is to inspect the patient and report their findings to the system.

10 days after this, Keir Starmer announced a drive to 'increase efficiency' in the NHS through, amongst other things, recommending that GPs use AI systems to transcribe their speech and notes.

I designed this to be a fully functional and interactive device, and runs entirely locally with no data centers in its operation. Commissioned by @braiduk.bsky.social. First exhibited two weeks ago at The Lowry in Manchester.

It's a desktop device and voice interface that listens to all patient & GP conversations, sends the info to a Palantir data center, and then returns a 'smart, AI-powered' diagnosis, without the opinion of the GP, whose only role now is to inspect the patient and report their findings to the system.

❤️ Wish you could be there friend!

I specifically wanted to expose the connections between spurious AI use and academic institutions who want to reduce their carbon footprint, and the frequent incompatibility of this. Which included critiquing AI art that pretends to care about Nature.

Oooo, thank you old friend!

I gave some hostile examples from other practices as well as proposotional ones from my own practice of what an anti-capitalist AI art can look like, including some new work coming later this year. I believe there's a recording of the talk coming down the pipeline soon.

Plus Haunted Machines feat. @ndkane.bsky.social

The intimacy of the AI field to the military is obviously long and deep, the ex-head of the NSA being appointed to the board of directors of OpenAI is not a surprise www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24...