The word Noumena refers to things that exist outside of our senses - things we can’t directly see or experience. In this project, it means patterns that can’t be perceived by humans but can be understood by machines. This project offers a glimpse into machine cognition, embodied in physical objects:
1. A device with a camera that recognizes its surroundings through image recognition, using GPT-2 to comment on detected objects. A screen displays the layered perception of object recognition.
2. A stone embedded with various sensors, transmitting data via BLE to make the invisible visible.
3. A disassembled Google Home Mini, revealing its inner workings. Its wake word detection was slightly altered, and it could even communicate with the first object through voice - taking in commands and searching the web.
Each object represents a stage of a machine learning process: Collecting Data – Recognizing Patterns – Making Predictions.
The project was shown as an interactive installation and developed as part of a semester project at the University of the Arts in Berlin, within the course Object Intelligence.
The word Noumena refers to things that exist outside of our senses - things we can’t directly see or experience. In this project, it means patterns that can’t be perceived by humans but can be understood by machines. This project offers a glimpse into machine cognition, embodied in physical objects:
1. A device with a camera that recognizes its surroundings through image recognition, using GPT-2 to comment on detected objects. A screen displays the layered perception of object recognition.
2. A stone embedded with various sensors, transmitting data via BLE to make the invisible visible.
3. A disassembled Google Home Mini, revealing its inner workings. Its wake word detection was slightly altered, and it could even communicate with the first object through voice—taking in commands and searching the web.
Each object represents a stage of a machine learning process: Collecting Data – Recognizing Patterns – Making Predictions.
The project was shown as an interactive installation and developed as part of a semester project at the University of the Arts in Berlin, within the course Object Intelligence.