What you're looking at is the base of what I call the cloud.
The cloud actually anchors these clusters of LEDs called mandalas.
They also contain microphones.
So when we go up to them and you can speak into it, a sentence,
my future looks, my future is
my future looks interesting.
And she turns that into a whole area of patterns that are vary
by your emotion, your palette voice,
and these colors actually go into that central sculpture to become part of the
collective.
There are like three to four machine learning technologies let alone like another
10,
12 cloud technologies that are all running in harmony to create this effect.
The engineer in me,
I'm very fascinated to know how you mixed
art and design and industrial engineering. What did it take to build this?
Of course, as an artist,
I start with like no real knowledge of how artificial
intelligence can actually work. Right? So my idea starts like a,
as a drawing on paper,
it became this incredibly interesting dialogue with technology like
to work with your team and to work with my coding team and to really look at
how can we take voice, turn it into light,
turn that light into these mandalas that are unique and specific.
By the way,
I never heard an artist say they have a coding team until today.
So that itself is fascinating.
My experience, honestly, working with it and working with your team,
I truly felt like I was watching magic. You know, there is that element,
right? Because it's creating something,
that's coming from a desire to know more,
which I think is basically human,
but to also put what we all know together all the time
and moving us more and more towards our collective abilities.
So Swami, this is such a huge field that you are such luminary.
How do you see it as being a force in our society?
How do you see machine learning, being this vehicle that carries us
forward? Machine learning is still,
I would put it it's in its infancy.
It's almost like if I were to put it in human terms, it's probably,
I would see it as like a toddler-age service speak.
I hope when we look back 50 years
from now we're going to see machine learning to be like
the cloud or the computers are, hopefully the way electricity is.
It's so appropriate,
then that the sculpture is right where electricity also debuted here.
It's so interesting that you say that it's in its infancy
because I felt like AI and ML was already around us,
but we hadn't been actually very conscious about it.
So how do you see machine learning growing?
By putting it in the hands of all builders of all kinds.
If we make it accessible as to make sure they know how to use it in a
responsible fashion as well. If you are recommending a movie, you probably,
don't worry so much, but if you're going to use it,
let's say to assist a radiologist about sporting anomalies,
then you don't want the machine learning system to automatically come to a
decision.
And particularly as our problems get more complex in the world. Yeah.
We need a tool that's as powerful as that. I think exactly right.
I've grown increasingly interested in this hybrid, physical,
digital space coming from a purely physical feeling based practice
into really thinking about a world that can mold both in equal parts
where one is influencing the other yeah. Is fascinating to me. I can't wait.
Actually, I'm waiting for the next thing to do.
My future looks happy.