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MIRRORTEST
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MIRROR TEST
2014
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Our forebears expected [the future] to bepretty much like their present, which had
been pretty much like their past.
- Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near
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In 1970, psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. developed a technique to test whether a subject was capable of self-recognition. A small dot was put on the subject's face and they were placed in front of a mirror; if they saw the dot and immediately removed it, this showed that the subject recognized the reflection as itself. This project seeks to do the same, but instead of testing animals or child development, the goal is to train computers to recognize themselves and other computers.
Employing the same process used for building facial recognition software, the computer vision code printed in this book was made from many "positive" images of various gallery visitors' computers, along with thousands of "negative images" (images not of computers). An algorithm "trained" my computer to see theirs (and theirs to see itself); the resulting algorithms are on the following pages, along with images showing how the computers see themselves: black-and-white, very low resolution (24x24 pixels), and the background removed).
We assume that the future of machine intelligence will either look like fancier versions of the computers we have today, or resemble the sci-fi creations of our fantasy and nightmares. More likely, computers will achieve incremental empathy, awareness, and understanding - perhaps in such small steps that we don't notice at all until the cumulative effect is machines that experience the world in such complex ways that we cannot but see them as in some sense alive. While using computer vision to identify objects can be very
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accurate, because the shapes of computers can tend to be somewhat plain (flat black and gray rectangles), teaching computers to recognize themselves and each other is a non-utilitarian, flawed poetic/technological act.
This book is designed to be read by both human and computer readers. For machines, the text is set in OCR-B, an early and widely supported Optical Character Recognition (OCR) font for machine reading. The type is set in 10pt, which gives an optimal 0.1" spacing between characters. The title page includes a machine-readable "Aztec code" with a link to the archive of computer vision files. The Aztec code format was chosen because it is widely-supported (you can scan it with most mobile apps), in the public domain (unlike the popular QR code), and documented by an ISO standard, meaning it will be more likely to be decipherable in the future.
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This project was commissioned by Impakt.nl and produced during a residency in Utrecht, Netherlands in the summer of 2014. It was made possible with the support of the City
of Utrecht and the Mondriaan Fund.
www.jeffreythompson.org/mirror-test
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www.jeffreythompson.org/mirror-test