Of Machines Learning to See Lemon

Alistair McClymont and John Fass

Of machines learning to see lemon is a project that aims to demystify and materialise the way machine-learning algorithms categorise and assign value to the data they are trained on. It is both a physical installation and a website. The installation can be seen from 13th - 17th September 2023 at Scopitone Festival in France.

This invisible classification process is usually intended to produce automated decisions, which can have profound consequences for individual and collective freedom. The possible benefits of machine-learning are many, but we run the risk of developing technologies of such complexity that our abilities to shape them to serve the common good are severely limited. With this installation we hope to situate machine-learning as open to creative exploration and critique.

Accompanying the installation is the below website and essay:
https://learningtoseelemon.com/

• https://learningtoseelemon.com/