Research Questions
What is a machine?
This question is the center of my explorations in this course. I sought to discover where the human and machine come together and interact, displacing prior beliefs about the separation of the natural and the mechanical.What does a machine sound like?
Typical understandings of machines would lead one to expect that machine sounds would be similar to those found in a factory setting, or perhaps similar to that of digital beeps and boops. I became curious about exploring the sounds of natural machines as well, and whether the human voice itself can be found mechanical.How do machines utilize language?
In theory, machines only know as much about language as they are given by humans. Models are trained on language found online, utilizing the sentence structure and phrasing of others' words to create their own new (or newish) sentences. There is something particularly uncanny about this use of language, formed from the remnants of other sentences, and yet that uncanniness is precisely my point of interest.This page has paths:
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