Thursday, May 31, 2018

This misanthropic artist taught Google Home to fire a gun


With a misspent childhood/adolescence/adulthood absorbing as much sci-fi as possible, I knew it was only a matter of time until smart speakers turned bad. Well, okay, maybe that’s not entirely accurate. But, AI artist and roboticist Alexander Reben did teach Google Assistant on a Google Home to fire a gun, so that’s something. Check out the lo-fi set-up here: It’s a clever and timely piece of artwork that plays on people’s fears of both the (probably) impending singularity and guns in general. On one level, it’s reminiscent of the work some artists did around 3D-printed guns. The most notorious of this…

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