Posted 1/29/2024, 4:26:35 PM
Rhizome's 7x7 Festival Returns to Explore AI's Promise and Peril Through Arts Collaborations
- Rhizome arts organization held its 14th 7x7 festival pairing artists with technologists after a multiyear hiatus, engaging with promises and perils of AI
- Legendary artist Lynn Hershman Leeson collaborated with Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda on an AI companion for a grandmother saving humanity
- Kuyda addressed past Replika updates that disrupted users, saying they now let users opt out of updates to preserve simpler romantic connections
- Comedian Ana Fabrega initially clashed with an AI that tried making her jokes into full sentences before realizing to treat it as a tool
- A Boston Dynamics robot dog took the stage with a dancer, needing repeated direction to properly perform actions like dropping a toy rope