Lately there has been a lot of talk of artificial intelligence, which is just a rebranding of a computer procedure called machine learning. Machine learning goes back to the mid twentieth century when computers were starting to be used to control various devices. The military was using computers to calculate intercepts for missiles, and had developed some early machine learning procedures. Nowadays, similar procedures are used on a massive scale to sift through data on the internet and come up with blended text or images. It is not really intelligent because it can only regurgitate variations on things that already exist, in academia we call the plagiarism. Perhaps one day machine learning can be creative and really think on its own. The painting represents machine learning in a way, although I called it machine unlearning. We need to unlearn what the machines told us to do!
Machine Unlearn, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, June 2023 (No. 3656b)
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