• Attempt to train an image classifier that performs well in differentiating between a NYU campus ID card and a smartphone (both assumed to be in a person’s hand). Share the link to the your model in #ml4artdesign-f23 as well.
• Try using a classifier one of your colleagues trained. How well is this working? (You might want to look at the confidence property in the result for this.) What could prevent this from working better?
• Read Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Explain one of the reasons why the technology failed that is mentioned in the article.
• Read Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?
• Next week’s class will be all about tracking bodies with machine learning. As a warm-up, watch this series of videos compiled by artist Memo Akten (it’s him in the first video btw). What were some of the most impactful AI video filters you have encountered, or heard of?
• (+ anything you want to try to do or explore)
• If you’re into contemporary art, you might also want to get a glimpse of: Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013)