THE ULTRA HUMAN

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This project explores our relationship with daily-use AI consumer electronic products. It challenges the design techniques used to make AI products more ‘reliable’ and ‘comfortable’ in order to popularise them, gathering data from more users. 

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AI consumer electronics have been re-aestheticised from an Unheimlich (uncanny) perspective. By making the audience experiment the ‘Anti-Alexa Experience’, this project aims to promote socio-technical knowledge and introduce critical thinking towards daily AI products, contemporary marketing techniques and the future of artificial intelligence.

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The project was exhibited at ARS Electronica 2019 in Linz, Austria.

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https://ars.electronica.art/news/en/

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The Alexa Skill is available for free download clicking here