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Kyle McDonald is an artist working with code, whose path ran from early chatbots through AI research to art about technology and culture.
Photo: Kyle McDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFor pplkpr [People Keeper] in 2014, we had an automated system for managing your social life based on biometric data. It would look at your stress level over the course of the day. If someone stressed you out all the time, it would just block them from your contact list.
Kyle McDonald, Kyle McDonald on Computer Softness
That year, 2015, I felt like machine learning had the breakthrough it needed for me to relate to the computer that way. That was the big conceptual change for me.
Kyle McDonald, Kyle McDonald on Computer Softness