Assignment 2A

2A: Excavating AI, Teachable Machine Project

Jianhao Ma

Moral Machines

The reading "Excavating AI" brings up an idea that the tasks of training AI should not just be making them smarter, but to apply political consideration and moral standard as well, especially when related to people.

I would not care about such idea years ago, because I thought that technical breakthroughs is the one and foremost priority in emerging technology industries, why bother? However, when the application of machine learning started entering our lives, I changed my mind.

Everyday, there are many information processed/filtered by machine learning tools being fed to us, textual or non textual. They could be the advertisement you watch on social media, the pop-up news on your phone. In other words, many of the lower products of machine learning are mediums. Therefore, they have the inherent nature of being political biased and ideologically influential.

The fantasy that "technologies should be unpolitical" has shattered. We have to face the truth that machine learning products are naturally political message carrier. It's never too early to teach the machines to be "moral", because the product they generated are interpreted by different moralities anyway.

Heavy Rain

-Teachable Machine and P5 project

During this summer, I made a P5 project about pixel sorting for my Digital Composition class. In that project, I coded a sine wave to pixel rain with selecting colors from pixels on canvas. And it is responsive to sound (P5 audio library mic input). 
This project is based on the pixel rain project, I used the model I trained in Teachable Machine to control the rain. The rain is still responsive to mic input, but you can use gesture control to change the coefficient parameter of the amplitude of the sine wave. The gestures also change the RGB value of the canvas, to help create a rainy ambience.

    Instruction:

    Video Demo:
    

    p5 editor:
    It takes a few seconds to load. Do not refresh, sometimes switching tabs can help (I don't know why)


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