Frederik De Wilde (BE), in collaboration with Jeff Clune and Anh Nguyen (US)   GET AN INSIGHT INTO HOW A COMPUTER ‘THINKS’ AND ‘SEES Machines can’t do what the human imagination can… yet. This installation researches the failure of machines and computers to simulate the human mind. The artist was inspired by the inability of machines to accurately simulate the process of evolution due to their lack of processing power and other key functions required to run complex simulations. A touchscreen allows the visitor to navigate through and explore a deep neural network. In machines, an artificial neural network is a computer algorithm inspired by the central nervous systems of animals. The webcam analyses in realtime what it sees and what it has been ‘taught’ to detect. What is detected is visualised as highlighted artificial neurons. The audience can then browse through all the neural layers and get an insight into how a computer ‘thinks’ and ‘sees’. A voice tells visitors which layer they are looking at and what’s happening. In a lot of cases, the visitor may not recognise these images, but the artificial intelligence appears to, demonstrating the limits of machine comprehension. This work demonstrates how A.I. and deep neural networks are easily fooled, a dystopian thought when you take into account the fact that they are already used by the military, drones, and Tesla’s self-driving cars. How much confidence do we have in ourselves and the technologies we develop? Or in societies and industries that are accelerating the development of A.I. and automatisation? Science Gallery Dublin