Ayoung Kim
Delivery routes carried Ayoung Kim onto TIME100 AI
The Seoul artist rode with couriers during COVID, turned the app’s one-way commands into art, and now joins the Thinkers category.
artificial intelligence
Helsinki Online
Every bench in Helsinki Online sits where it really is
Pietari Niinimäki is rebuilding the city as an open-world hangout, one tree at a time.
Rising
Tomo Kihara Will Not Sit Comfortably in One Chair
A cabinet in Tokyo runs a language model that writes a stranger's life from census data, and its maker is still deciding what to call the work he does.
Generative Art
Did Competition Dance Train Us to Perform for Algorithms?
Maya Man's StarQuest turns AI-generated dancers and Dance Moms into a mirror—asking whether commanding digital bodies is an act of cruelty or creation.
anthropology
Can AI-Powered Games Actually Teach Anthropology?
Anthropologist Michael Hoffman uses AI to transform ethnographic fieldwork into playable text adventures, bridging the gap between academic research and accessible learning.
artificial intelligence
Sahej Rahal's AI Instruments and Cooperative Creatures
What happens when artificial intelligence becomes a site for reimagining collective consciousness? Sahej Rahal creates speculative creatures and AI simulations that challenge Western notions of individual consciousness while drawing from centuries-old Indian philosophical traditions.
voice technology
Nicole He: Talking to computers
Nicole He fuses voice technology with playful programming to question how humans interact with computers, creating experiences that subvert expectations of AI interaction.
Virtual Reality
Jessica Shamash: Interactive Stories That Remember You Back
Jessica Shamash and Fable Studio blend VR and AI to create Lucy, an emotionally intelligent virtual character who remembers her interactions with viewers.me
Feature
How AI is shaping the future of interactive games
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. In the 2013 film Her, protagonist Theodore plays a videogame where he is surprised by a wild, swearing artificially intelligent cartoon character. The foul-mouthed little alien launches into a conversation with Theodore, remaining stubbornly
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Review
Event[0] will break your humanity
The ‘80s linger on today through the afterglow of throwback culture. Stranger Things is probably the most-discussed TV show this year, likely due to the fact that it feeds purely on our nostalgia for ‘80s cinema classics from the likes of Spielberg. Then there’s Everybody Wants Some, which is essent
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News
The challenging design of Event[0]’s insecure AI
One of the big games coming out this week is Event[0]—available for Windows and Mac on September 14th. It’s a sci-fi game set in an alternate retrofuture reality in which humanity built a starship in 1985 and has since embraced artificial intelligence even more than we have now. The events depicted
News
The Fall Part 2 promises to plummet further into its AI nightmare
We were exposed to the first part of the sci-fi videogame trilogy The Fall over two years ago now. It’s about time some more info on the second part arrived—and that it has, and with a trailer to boot. You can expect it to arrive during first quarter of 2017 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Window