Lina Lopes

Thinking about topics like machine learning or artificial intelligence, we are hoping that machines will do more accurate simulations and decision making than what humans can do. The wish is that they can compute our lives and choices better than we can. However, if human development is to some way linked to its difficulties and insecurities, what would be the insecurity of a machine? Your obsolescence? The fact that your battery can "die"? Would discovering or teaching insecurity to a machine make it more human? Would overcoming human fears by doing science, art and technology make us more machinic? Many artists in recent years have used machines with statistical algorithms and machine learning to produce poetry. It is already a fact that machines are capable of making poetry, but are they also capable of "feeling" poetry? Or does this concern the human condition?