VIDEO POST relaunches The Prayer by D I E M U T, an installation that delves into the supernatural dimension using artificial intelligence. A robot installation performs a potentially infinite chain of religious routines and devotional attempts at communication through self-learning software, exploring “the divine”, the supernatural or “the noumenal” as a mystery of “the unknown”, using deep learning. The Prayer was presented in the exhibition “Neurons, Simulated Intelligence” at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, curated by Frédéric Migayrou and Camille Lenglois from 26 February to 26 April 2020.
D I E M U T, The Prayer, 2020
The production is a collaboration with Regina Barzilay, Tianxiao Shen, Enrico Santus, all from MIT CSAIL, Amazon Polly, Bill and Will Sturgeon, Elchanan Mossel, MIT, Stefan Strauss, Chris Fitch, Brian Kane, Keith Welsh, Webster University, and Matthew Azevedo.
