This session is facilitated by Emily Martinez, Ben Lerchin
About this session
Meet the makers of Queer AI - shown at the Arts & Culture Salon (801) - and come interact with the first iteration of Queer AI, a conversational chatbot trained on queer literature. The bot currently engages in a variety of conversations around intimacy and relationships, but we encourage you to talk to it about whatever you desire.
Please note that your anonymous interactions will be recorded to help guide our research. Also, you will occasionally be prompted with random survey questions such as, “Can you describe a time you were helped/harmed by an artificial intelligence?” and “Do you feel listened to and seen?”
We will unpack insights from your thoughtful and curious interactions with our bot as part of a UX workshop on Sunday at 14:00-15:00. This session will explore ways to create safe, fun, and pleasurable human-machine interactions that meet the needs and desires of a diversity of sensibilities and actors.
See the gallery project description
Goals of this session
AI and Machine Learning technology promises to solve previously unsolvable problems by comprehending massively complex datasets, but more often than not this process incorporates bias, “solving” problems by creating a normative picture of reality that ignores the diversity and fluidity of real-world humans. Queer AI seeks to resist this trend by building conversational chatbots trained to embody the messiness of relationships, bodies, and identity. We hope to use an interactive exhibit to conduct design research into our potential users’ experiences with existing AI tools and what needs/desires are going unmet.