Current Language

Algorithms have become the new means in which information is categorised. Information is accessible to a higher percent of society today, however, as Pierre Levy puts it, we interact with a massive media-library (post-encyclopedia); thanks to the interface, users are not required to comprehend the method in which information is categorised. But is it necessary to understand the method in order to fully achieve full democratisation of information? Would a deeper understanding of this computational process change the way we perceive information? And above all, does the method have to understand us? With Current Language, we engage on a research-based project where Google’s Cloud Vision API becomes the base ground to explore the above questions.

Dusmet Carrasco Carmen
Roux Guillaume