Conversational AI (Technology that Talks) and Speculative Design Activism - Women Reclaiming AI

The website referenced in this item is hosted externally and available to view in full by accessing the following link: https://womenreclaimingai.com/ Conversational AI is a research project spanning three design activist projects, ‘The Infinite Guide’, ‘Women Reclaiming AI’, and ‘Looking for The Cloud’. These projects investigate how conversational AI is affecting human relationships with technology, the limitations of poor diversity in AI development teams, the lack of public understanding of AI and its environmental impact, and the ethical implications of the commercial pursuit of humanising AI.Women Reclaiming AI (WRAI) is a feminist voice assistant and expanding piece of design activism authored entirely by women. The voice assistant is programmed through participatory workshops by a growing community of 100+ women. Through creating a platform for collective writing and editing the project co-creates an AI personality that challenges gender roles.The voice assistant/chatbot documented in this item (through the ARS electronica exhibition documentation, website and video) forms one of the components of the output for this project. The rest of the documentation in this item is contextualising information.This item contains a document containing description of the project, a photograph of the Women Reclaiming AI exhibition at ARS Electronica 2019, video evidence of Women Reclaiming AI exhibit testing at ARS Electronica 2019, a short video showing the voice-enabled chatbot/voice assistant in use by project community participants, images of WRAI workshops, a PDF image of the website, and an animated GIF of a GAN generated by the community and of women the community admires. The visual representation of WRAI uses GAN frameworks to generate purposefully disorderly images, made of a dataset of images of women, from our community and women the community admires. The GAN is made in protest of the averaging out of women’s experiences and the non-inclusive depiction of women by unaccountable development teams who are reinforcing negative gender stereotypes.A GAN is a Generative Adversarial Network. It is an AI algorithmic architecture that uses two neural networks operating against each other to generate a new, synthetic instance of the data fed to them. In this case we fed the GAN a dataset of images of women, and the GAN then created new instances of the images that we then arranged in a grid and animated.±Overview document courtesy of Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga.Photos Courtesy of Jürgen Grünwald, Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga.Used with permission.The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.

本项所述网站由外部托管，可通过以下链接完整查看：https://womenreclaimingai.com/。对话式人工智能是一项跨越三个设计行动主义项目的研究项目，包括‘无限向导’、‘女性重夺人工智能’和‘寻找云层’。这些项目探究了对话式人工智能如何影响人类与技术的关系、人工智能开发团队中多样化不足的局限性、公众对人工智能及其环境影响的理解不足，以及商业化追求人性化的道德影响。女性重夺人工智能（WRAI）是一个由女性创作的女性主义语音助手，也是一项不断发展的设计行动主义作品。该语音助手通过由100多位女性组成的不断增长的社区参与的工作坊进行编程。通过创建集体写作和编辑的平台，该项目共同塑造了一个挑战性别角色的AI人格。本项所述的语音助手/聊天机器人（通过ARS电子艺术节文档、网站和视频）构成了该项目的输出组成部分之一。本项中的其余文档均为背景信息。本项包含一份包含项目描述的文档、2019年ARS电子艺术节女性重夺人工智能展览的照片、2019年ARS电子艺术节女性重夺人工智能展览测试的视频证据、一段展示项目社区参与者使用语音启用聊天机器人/语音助手的简短视频、WRAI工作坊的照片、网站PDF图像以及由社区生成并展示社区所钦佩的女性GAN的动画GIF。WRAI的视觉表现采用GAN框架生成有意混乱的图像，这些图像由来自我们社区和社区所钦佩的女性的图像数据集构成。GAN的创建是为了抗议女性经验的平均化以及不负责任的发展团队对女性非包容性的描绘，这些团队正在强化负面性别刻板印象。GAN（生成对抗网络）是一种人工智能算法架构，它使用两个相互对抗的神经网络来生成新的、合成的数据实例。在这种情况下，我们向GAN提供了一组女性图像数据集，然后GAN创建了新的图像实例，我们将这些图像排列成网格并进行了动画处理。±概述文档由Coral Manton和Birgitte Aga提供。照片由Jürgen Grünwald、Coral Manton和Birgitte Aga提供。经许可使用。本作品受版权保护，未经许可不得使用。使用本存储库即表示同意其政策和相关版权法。