Understanding AI Through Failure and Training Processes
Yue Huang and Varvara Guljajeva (2024)
Abstract
With the increasing advancement and integration of AI into daily life, understanding AI has become a significant concern. This paper offers a brief review of how artists utilize artistic strategies to engage with and understand AI, unfolding the components of AI and exploiting its inherent limitations. Following this, we focus on the art installation Artificial Life: One Leg at a Time, 2021 by Yue Huang, examining how it deploys AI’s limitations and its’ training process in artistic practice. By showcasing the agent’s comedic movements in the AI training process and displaying how AI gradually learns to run in simulation through observing and interactions with their digital environment, this artwork allows audiences to bypass complex technical details, using art as a medium to experience and understand AI, which is similar to observing life’s learning and evolution.
Venue: In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts (ARTECH ’23).