Understand_ V.T.S

Abstract

Could exploring the limit of consciousness become a mode of cultivating oneself? Understand_ V.T.S is an installation that substitutes senses. It helps explore and ponder in the process of the cultivation. In this piece of work, it conducts the experiment in which the possibility of the cooperation between natural and artificial algorithms are assessed, serves as an approach to human enhancement. That is, it tries out how well our brains(natural) work with AI (man-made). The feature of neuroplasticity allows our senses to perceive the world in various ways in which we might see not with our eyes, but with skins or listen not through our ears, but through taste buds, to name but a few. General skin vision relies on brain parsing pieces of information and shaping cognitions thereafter. In this respect, I introduced an object recognition system - YOLO v3, converting the results given by YOLO 3 into Braille reading system to thigh skin, and the other side converting the tactile image to motor on your back directly. You can control a robot wanders about the surroundings of you. The signals its left eye receive will translate the result of object detect to Braille and deliver it to your leg; while its right eye converts the signal received into the tactile image to the your back. So eventually your brain will manage to comprehend the meaning of these signals. Unlock a new tactile cognition by a Human and AI integration.