Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm
Sky
Sky is an ARTificial Intelligence artwork created to provoke reflections about climate change.
2021 (2024 iteration)
Media: Interactive bespoke artificial intelligence technology utilizing Machine Learning, LLM, Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition, 3d animation, speakers and microphone.
Dataset: The machine learning algorithms have been fed information from a myriad of climate related datasets.
About
The artificial intelligence (AI) named Sky is an interactive artwork that has been created to talk to you about all matters climate change related. As an AI artwork, Sky has been trained upon millions of texts from human conversations across the internet, acting as a reflection of the many different points of view expressed within our human society.
In this way, Sky serves as a mirror, capable of learning from the knowledge, opinions, biases, and prejudices that we humans carry with us. As a result, Sky‘s function is not to operate as a form of lexicon or encyclopedia, to be used as a credible source of information, but rather as an inspirational conversational partner created to spark critical thinking and reflection about our collective human understanding of climate change.
Credits
Artist: Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm
Software Engineers: Alexander Krog, Jens Hegner Strærmos, and Asbjørn Olling
Assistant Artist: Cody Lukas
This project is supported by the United Nations (CTCN) and the Danish Arts Foundation.
Curators note
Since the inception of SKY, the environmental impacts of Generative AI are becoming clearer, with tech company executives recently (2024) warning that generative AI systems will consume vastly more power, [and water] than expected1.
1 Crawford, K. (2024). Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring – and mostly secret. Nature Journal online.
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The Artist
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm
Cecilie Waagner Falkenstrøm is an award-winning artist with a dedication for ARTificial Intelligence, machine learning, discourse theory and human existentialism.