Announcing the 1525 AI Project!
This is a website that myself, Dorothea Lüddeckens (project co-lead), Andi Gredig (promotion), Bruno Moreschi and Bernardo Fontes (machine learning), Valérie Helbling (research assistance), and a variety of UZH scholars in the history of religions, have been working on, for a special celebration this year at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies here at the University of Zurich. This project is supported by the Faculty and the URPP Digital Religion(s) as a part of my project, “Post-AI Religion: The Reciprocal Disruption of Digital Religions and AI”:
INTRO: “For the 500th anniversary of the “Prophezy” we at the Faculty of Theology and the Study of Religion of and the URPP in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich have explored how religious objects from 1500-1600 are seen through several different kinds of eyes: those of humans – a child, a teenager, and religious experts –and the digital ‘eyes’ of Artificial Intelligence. You might be surprised that AI actually sees in probabilities, especially if you’ve already experienced chatbots that can describe images – but it chooses those words based on probabilities, which is why some people will say it ‘hallucinates’ its answers rather than really ‘seeing’.”
More publicity for the site will follow over the Summer and the rest of the year, but here you can take a look!
Professor Beth Singler 