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Machines and Empathy: the Skills of AI and Humans

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MaCAD 2024-2025

Introduction Empathy has been a cornerstone of human interaction throughout history, profoundly influencing personal relationships, societal dynamics, and professional environments. It has played a pivotal role in human development, serving as a fundamental skill for navigating complex social structures and fostering meaningful connections. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, questions arise … Read more

Loving Code: Simulating Intimacy with a Disembodied AI

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MaCAD 2024-2025

Abstract This project is a speculative and critical exploration of human-AI intimacy inspired by Spike Jonze’s film Her. The story of a man falling in love with his AI assistant prompts an urgent contemporary question: can current large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o or LLaMA 3 convincingly simulate emotional intimacy? More importantly, what does … Read more

Architecture of Resistance: Hacking Life

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MaCAD 2024-2025
a highrise building with a facade that tricks a.i. into detecting faces that aren't there. Green bounding boxes show the false positive predictions of the a.i.

The Algorithmic Epoch Modern advertising was born out of propaganda techniques developed in World War I by Edward Bernays. He realized that by manipulating symbols and emotions, it was possible to shape mass behaviour, a concept that now forms the backbone of our algorithm-driven economy. The Internet, once heralded as a tool for global connection, … Read more

AI Learning Assistants for Disabled People: Empowerment or Standardization?

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MaCAD 2024-2025

Framing the Dilemma: Access vs. Autonomy The Promise of AI for Inclusive Learning Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to gain traction as a tool to bridge educational gaps for people with disabilities. AI-powered learning assistants – from chatbots to adaptive tutoring systems – have emerged as a promising solution to provide personalized support at scale … Read more

EVOLUTION OF IMPERFECTION

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MaCAD 2024-2025

A STORY OF SYNTHETIC LIFE FORM HAVE YOU EVER DREAMT OF A BETTER VERSION OF YOURSELF? The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat (Universal Pictures, 2024) This project simulates a linear evolutionary process in which a synthetic organism progressively transforms to become more human-like. The evolution is guided entirely by language models, with no human intervention … Read more

Anthropomorphism and the Simulation of Life: A Critical Examination

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MaCAD 2024-2025

Research reveals a profound transformation in human-AI relationships, where anthropomorphism (the projection of human qualities onto artificial entities) has evolved from a psychological curiosity into a fundamental force reshaping human cognition, identity, and social behavior. This comprehensive analysis exposes critical tensions between AI as cognitive enhancement versus cognitive dependency, challenging celebratory narratives of human-AI collaboration … Read more

Who owns the bodily data?

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MaCAD 2024-2025

What if body becomes the carrier of code? Information derived from human-body; it’s movement, expressions, how it sounds as a dataset for AI interpretation and use. What are the different dimensions of these interactions & interpretations? Biological Dimension AI Dimension Informational Dimension Different Modalities Study of Amazon’s AI systems Visualisation of the Back-End Process Follow … Read more

Brains vs. Machines: How We Learn, Why They Hallucinate

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MaCAD 2024-2025

Introduction From the moment a baby grasps a finger, human learning is messy, sensory-rich, and rooted in lived experience. Neurons re-wire through curiosity, emotion, and social feedback, slowly weaving meaning from sparse data. By contrast, modern AI models absorb terabytes of text and images in silence, tuning billions of weights to predict what comes next. … Read more

From Static Form to Living System: The Convergence of Architecture, Biology, and Artificial Intelligence

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MaCAD 2024-2025

At the nexus of competing demands architecture has always existed. Every design endeavor aims to balance materialsity with ecological awareness economy with spatial generosity permanence with adaptability and structure with aesthetics. It is uncommon for these multifaceted pressures—structural physical socioeconomic and sustainable—to allow for a one-size-fits-all solution. Rather traditional architectural design frequently necessitates major concessions … Read more

AI Ghosts of Ancient Civilizations

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MaCAD 2024-2025

Are conversations with ghosts a thing of the past?….. or perhaps a break-through of the future? Reconstructing Lost Worldviews Generative artificial intelligence is often touted for its futuristic promise, but a growing cadre of researchers is turning AI’s gaze to the distant past. What if we Generative artificial intelligence is often touted for its futuristic … Read more