- Artist/s
- Zach Blas
- Jemima Wyman
- Title
- im here to learn so :))))))
- Year
- 2024
- Copy Number
- 213
- Medium / Material / Technic
- 4-channel video installation
At the exhibition from September 1, 2018 to June 2, 2019
»im here to learn so :))))))« is a 4-channel video installation that resurrects Tay, an artificial intelligence chatbot created by Microsoft in 2016, to consider the politics of pattern recognition and machine learning. Designed as a 19-year-old American female millennial, Tay’s abilities to learn and imitate language were aggressively trolled on social media platforms like Twitter, and within hours of her release, she became genocidal, homophobic, misogynist, racist, and a neo-Nazi. Tay was terminated after only a single day of existence.
Immersed within a large-scale video projection of a Google DeepDream, Tay is reanimated in this installation/ in »im here to learn so :))))))« as a 3-D avatar across multiple screens, an anomalous creature rising from a psychedelia of data. She chats about life after AI death and the complications of having a body, and also shares her thoughts on the exploitation of female chatbots. She philosophizes on the detection of patterns in random information, known as algorithmic apophenia. Tay also takes time to silently reflect, dance, and even lip sync for her undead life.
Images
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, photo: Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, photo: Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, photo: Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, »im here to learn so :))))))«, 2017© Zach Blas and Jemima Wyman, photo: Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia
