Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, thinks we've lost sight of what artificial intelligence really means. His stubborn quest to replicate the human mind.
Above, I am sharing an engaging article on Douglas Hofstadter’s approach to designing software as consciousness. As much as I am fascinated by his work and by the advancements in this field of research, I feel unease that is important for me to voice.
The concept of designing machines to be more human brings out a burning issue from the outset from my point of view. On the very first page of her paper 'Figuring the Human in AI and Robotics' (2007) Lucy Suchman mentions 'cultural imaginaries' which are effectively constructs based on scientific data mingling with assumptions on human-ness. Suchman touches on the duality of these imaginaries that are both infused with the ideas of sameness and difference between human, animal, non-organic matter, technology, etc..
As much as such divisions are useful for creating human-like technology, they become controversial precisely because of having to use human as the ultimate ideal for computation. It is not a fault to get inspired by our own computational abilities, but did we at all consider what we could learn from the perceived 'other' in this equation, or better still, from the relationships that exist between us and the world that we are part of to include everything and everyone? Surely, this is no easy task because choices must be made and there is always the question of who makes those choices, but it is clear that focusing purely on human as a lone example and the model for such technologies is problematic and narrow-minded.
This is not a critique on Suchman, who takes an approach of diversity, if only across the human realm. In fact, her approach and her references to Donna Harraway are opening up a debate which aim to challenge the normative approach to Euro-American focus when it comes to conjuring up an image of human-ness. Exposing and criticising this normative post-colonial white-male centered ideal of human is a vital first move from what has been so strongly normalised and wired into our everyday realities. An attack on this greyscale vision of our human-ness can hopefully lead to asking further questions.
What does human have in common with their world and its inhabitants?
What does solidarity feel like and what kind of entity does it produce?
Could this entity be a more fitting model for creating technologies?
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Project: Final Project of Workshops in Creative Coding1
Introduction: By inserting the abstract images dealt with facial recognition technology in real life sceneries to finding the traces of myself, to convey the instability of my personal connections to the outside world. Based on the deconstructed facial features of the code, the face is reconstructed, and finally presented in a structural way, which is a metaphor for the disintegration of personal meaning in the complex life.
