To summarise the idea again, I wanted to demonstrate the process of a bot/machine trying to learn about itself. The bot would scrape research papers about AI and make connections across them by matching shared keywords present in titles.

In the meantime, I found a project where the concept of association is similarly explored.

https://dam.org/museum/artists_ui/artists/ridler-anna/wikileaks-love-story/

In this interactive installation, the artist scrapes Wikileaks’ database and constructs love stories by linking emails sent between people.

In order to begin making a proof-in-concept of my final idea, I decided I would spend time trying to make the digital version of this project first (as mentioned in the last blog) and then attempt a physical version. This was for multiple reasons:

• I could show a virtual simulation of what the final product looks like
• In the worst-case scenario, if the physical interpretation takes too much time or generates too many problems, I have a digital product to submit and showcase
• The digital idea can easily be accessed and distributed amongst people