Say I wanted to make an app that recognizes avocado toast, and I have an AI model ready to go. All I need to do is feed it some pictures of avocado toast. So the next time I’m out for brunch, I order avocado toast and take a picture: One image in the bag! And …
I Fed Avocado Toast To An AI and Here’s What Happened Read More »
Shown above: Social distance balloons. (The balloon on the left is a hologram, remoting in via augmented reality to share time and space with the physical balloon on the right.) Our team has worked remotely for years, particularly using VR and AR. Using new tech for doing real work has pushed us to focus on …
The Air We Breathe: a cross-reality balloon exhibition Read More »
Introduction We like the idea of being able to do computation and programming in a natural way, in real time, in space in front of us. We like using the knowledge in our hands and bodies to think faster and better than our minds could do with words alone. We believe new paradigms for spatial …
Combination Physical and Virtual Tools for Spatial Computation Read More »
Introduction Recently my hands were craving computation. We were waiting on some VR hardware and software that would allow us to prototype and design computational tools with our hands and bodies, but I got impatient and decided to go physical in the mean time. And so I picked up some littleBits kits, and also fired …
Back in March this year we headed to Detroit for RadicalxChange, a conference with the stated goal of finding positive alternatives to “rising inequality, stagnating economies and increasing threats to liberal democracy from populists of the left and right.” Our contribution was a talk showing four concrete examples of ways people could buy and sell …
Introduction Alan Turing created the Turing Test in 1950, Marvin Minsky wrote the first neural network in 1951, and arguments about whether AI will destroy us all or lead to technological utopia have been around ever since. In this piece I’ll be talking about two particular bits of rhetoric that have found an apparently unlikely …
Changing my Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data Read More »
TAOR continues the research tradition of eleVR, a group that existed from early 2014 to late 2017. But our research lineage goes back to the 1960s and includes many other names. These are my (Vi’s) personal recollections and how my views on art and research have developed during the past couple decades. In 2013, Alan …
