Artificial Intelligence is everywhere—from the photo enhancer in your smartphone to the virtual assistant in your kitchen. But what is it exactly?
CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY: A playful conversation on AI is an engaging and collaborative virtual reality experience that invites us to examine the promises and pitfalls of AI, while posing the question of what we’re hoping to achieve and at what cost. Guided by an entity built on the digital traces of Noam Chomsky and driven by conversation, the experience offers a thought-provoking take on how artificial intelligence intersects with human life. An exploration of the human capacity for creativity, inquiry and collaboration, CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY reveals how little we know about the human mind. So what is it exactly that we’re trying to replicate with AI?
Created by Sandra Rodriguez, CHOM5KY vs. CHOMSKY is a co-production by the National Film Board of Canada and SCHNELLE BUNTE BILDER, with support from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—from the photo enhancer in your smartphone to self-parking cars and the virtual assistant in your kitchen. But what is it exactly?
CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY: A playful conversation on AI is an engaging and collaborative virtual reality experience that invites us to examine the promises and pitfalls of AI. If machine intelligence is promoted as an inevitable future, we should all be able to ask: What are we hoping to achieve with it? And at what cost?
Visitors use VR headsets to enter the AI world, where they are greeted by CHOM5KY—an artificial entity inspired by and built from the vast array of digital traces of renowned professor Noam Chomsky. CHOM5KY is a friend and serves as a guide, inviting us to peek under the hood of machine-learning systems, and offering thought-provoking takes on how artificial intelligence intersects with human life.
Why Noam Chomsky? Professor Chomsky is a philosopher, social critic, historian and political activist, but is perhaps best known for his work in linguistics and cognitive science, the study of the mind. As one of the most recorded and digitized living intellectuals, he has left behind an extensive wake of data traces, enough to create an AI system based on his legacy. Chomsky is also skeptical about the pompous promises made of AI. Which makes him the perfect guide to encourage visitors to question everything they see—and help demystify AI.
Through various forms of play, CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY debunks the limitations and possibilities of machine learning, while uncovering the human capacity for creativity, inquiry and collaboration. The experience reveals how little we actually know about the human mind. So what is it exactly that we’re trying to replicate?
Created by Sandra Rodriguez, CHOM5KY vs. CHOMSKY is a co-production by the National Film Board of Canada and SCHNELLE BUNTE BILDER, with support from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
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Artificial Intelligence is everywhere—from the photo enhancer in your smartphone to the virtual assistant in your kitchen. But what is it exactly? Explore the world of artificial intelligence with an engaging, playful and collaborative virtual reality experience that examines the promises and pitfalls of AI.
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Explore the world of artificial intelligence with an engaging and collaborative virtual reality experience that examines the promises and pitfalls of AI.
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Created and written by
Sandra Rodriguez
A coproduction by the
National Film Board of Canada
and
SCHNELLE BUNTE BILDER
Media Design, Scenography and Code
SCHNELLE BUNTE BILDER
AI Systems Director
Cindy Sherman Bishop
AI Lead
Moov AI
Composition and Immersive Audio
kling klang klong GmbH & Co. KG
CHOM5KY vs CHOMSKY was supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. It was supported in part by Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Lab Programs with a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It received the help from the MIT Libraries Distinguished Collection.
