Artificial Intelligence and the Temporality of Machine Images

Abstract

DeepMind, a recent artificial intelligence technology created at Google, references in its name the relationship in AI between models of cognition used in this technology‘s development and its new deep learning algorithms. This chapter shows how AI researchers have been attempting to reproduce applied learning strategies in humans but have difficulty accessing and visualizing the computational actions of their algorithms. Google created an interface for engaging with computational temporalities through the production of visual animations based on DeepMind machine-learning test runs of Atari 2600 video games. These machine play animations bear the traces of not only DeepMind‘s operations, but also of contemporary shifts in how computational time is accessed and understood.