There is a saying in computer science: garbage in, garbage out. When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them – from antisemitic chatbots to racially biased software. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms?
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What will the car of 2040 be like?
Following the announcement petrol and diesel engine cars will be banned from sale in 2040, the car of the future is up for grabs
Continue Reading...Building Prey: how artists shape video game worlds
Via concept art and sketches, we look at how developer Arkane envisaged one of the most visually spectacular games of the year
Continue Reading...Designers on acid: the tripping Californians who paved the way to our touchscreen world
Ever wondered why email, trash cans, Google Docs and desktops look the way they do? The answer lies in 1960s hippie culture and LSD-taking creatives
Continue Reading...Mat Collishaw restages 1839 photography show in virtual reality
Artist says VR will change our outlook as he prepares Somerset House display based on Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal exhibition
Continue Reading...Magic black: Air-Ink, the art supplies made from vehicle pollution
Inventor Anirudh Sharma is capturing carbon from car exhausts to turn it into ink. And he’s got his eye on London’s black cabs next
Continue Reading...Can .art domain give the art business an online boost?
Arts institutions now have the option of a new internet suffix which aims to offer greater intelligibility and authenticity and maybe help the art market
Continue Reading...Anti-surveillance clothing aims to hide wearers from facial recognition
Hyperface project involves printing patterns on to clothing or textiles that computers interpret as a face, in fightback against intrusive technology
Continue Reading...MozEx: celebrating open internet, technology and creativity through digital art
MozEx an exhibition of digital art – spread out across all nine floors of Ravensbourne in Greenwich. Curated by the digital learning teams at Tate and V&A.
Continue Reading...Vincent van Bot: the robots turning their hand to art
Twenty-six robots designed by students across the US will compete in an art contest that offers a glimpse into the creative potentials of artificial intelligence
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