Figure infinity: human-assisted AI performance

Louis McHugh; Jung In Jung; Deniz Johns

doi:10.34626/xcoax.2023.11th.419

Figure infinity: human-assisted AI performance

Louis McHugh, Jung In Jung, Deniz Johns

Department of Games Technology and Mathematics

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Abstract

Figure Infinity is a performance piece that connects a human performer in a self-reflexive network of control and communication with artificial intelligence. The Computer Vision and Large Language Model AI agents collaborate to direct a human performer by generating performance direction in sequence. Human participants play the part of creative, yet invisible labour workers to refine the system. Instead of disguising the human factor at the centre of AI systems, we foreground it, and use it as experimental, aleatoric seeds in the performance. We use feedback between human performers and AI Agents, but making it less an active creative participation by the performer and instead a system of control. The work focuses on themes of accelerated platformisation of labour, algorithmic management and artificial intelligence failure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany
Editors	Miguel Carvalhais, Mario Verdicchio, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
Publisher	i2ADS
Pages	419-424
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9789899049529
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.34626/xcoax.2023.11th.419
Publication status	Published - 31 Jul 2023
Event	11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X - Weimar, Germany Duration: 5 Jul 2023 → 7 Jul 2023 Conference number: 11th https://xcoax.org/

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Name	xCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Publisher	i2ADS
ISSN (Print)	2183-9069

Conference

Conference	11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Abbreviated title	xCoAx 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Weimar
Period	5/07/23 → 7/07/23
Internet address	https://xcoax.org/

Keywords

AI performance
Feedback loop
Human-assisted AI
Failure
Data workers
Invisibilised labour
Platformisation
Algorithmic management

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McHugh, L., Jung, J. I., & Johns, D. (2023). Figure infinity: human-assisted AI performance. In M. Carvalhais, M. Verdicchio, L. Ribas, & A. Rangel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany (pp. 419-424). (xCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X). i2ADS. https://doi.org/10.34626/xcoax.2023.11th.419

McHugh, Louis ; Jung, Jung In ; Johns, Deniz. / Figure infinity : human-assisted AI performance. Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany. editor / Miguel Carvalhais ; Mario Verdicchio ; Luísa Ribas ; André Rangel. i2ADS, 2023. pp. 419-424 (xCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X).

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McHugh, L, Jung, JI & Johns, D 2023, Figure infinity: human-assisted AI performance. in M Carvalhais, M Verdicchio, L Ribas & A Rangel (eds), Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany. xCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, i2ADS, pp. 419-424, 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, 5/07/23. https://doi.org/10.34626/xcoax.2023.11th.419

Figure infinity: human-assisted AI performance. / McHugh, Louis; Jung, Jung In; Johns, Deniz.
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Weimar, Germany. ed. / Miguel Carvalhais; Mario Verdicchio; Luísa Ribas; André Rangel. i2ADS, 2023. p. 419-424 (xCoAx proceedings of the Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X).

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