Appropriate Response
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The power of words
From religious principles to marketing slogans or self-help, pithy phrases abound as a source of inspiration and guidance. Yet with today’s technology, it can be difficult to discern whether certain texts have been produced by humans or machines. Within this context, Klingemann’s artwork raises pertinent questions about authorship and the significance attached to written language.
Physicality, ritual and interpretation
For Appropriate Response, Klingemann enhanced the GPT2 neural network with a further 60,000 quotes to create a model capable of producing short texts. These appear on a split flap display, chosen by the artist for its aesthetic appeal, distinctive sound and connotation of waiting.
The kneeler turns interaction with Appropriate Response into a ritual-like experience. “We fear AI but also hope it might help us,” says Klingemann. “That balance between hope and fear is related to religious experience, so I felt kneeling was very fitting.”Context and expectation are also key. Viewers participate by kneeling but also by processing the text shown on the display. Appropriate Response generates coherent aphorisms but it is human viewers that furnish them with meaning.
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