All the boys ate a fish

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Abstract / Description of output

All the Boys Ate a Fish utilises voice cloning, Deep Reinforcement Learning and text prediction NLP in an interactive installation designed to provoke critical consideration of self-expression, anthropomorphism, agency and control in technology mediated communication. An artificial agent interacts with you, prompting you to speak by drawing upon phrases from corporate training in active listening. It then repeats the most recent things it ‘heard’, stitching together your words with those of previous visitors in a voice that sounds more like you the more original it deems your utterance. In addition to hearing the cloned voice, you feel it as tactile sensation, re-uniting a facsimile of your voice with your body and calling into question what it means to be an embodied mind while evoking a strange mix of empathy, curiosity and frustration with disembodied others.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationXCoAx 2024
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 12th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
EditorsMiguel Carvalhais, Mario Verdicchio, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
Publisheri2ADS
Pages321-325
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9789899049734
Publication statusPublished - 10 Jul 2024
EventxCoAx 2024: 12th Conference on Computation,
Communication, Aesthetics & X
- Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
Duration: 10 Jul 202412 Jul 2024
http://2024.xCoAx.org

Publication series

NamexCoAx Proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
ISSN (Electronic)2183-9069

Conference

ConferencexCoAx 2024: 12th Conference on Computation,
Communication, Aesthetics & X
Abbreviated titlexCoAx
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTreviso
Period10/07/2412/07/24
Internet address

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • artificial intelligence
  • voice cloning
  • NLP
  • deep reinforcement learning
  • embodiment
  • haptics
  • bone conduction

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