EXHIBIT ACTIVITIES
MIRROR MIRROR
How can AI tell what people are feeling?
In this activity, visitors experience a state-of-the-art machine vision application in facial expression recognition and explore how AI identifies and tracks parts of our faces to infer our inner emotional states.
TEACH ME SILLY
How can AI learn to figure out patterns?
Silly or serious, happy or sad, this activity allows visitors to use their own faces to create training datasets and build and test their own facial expression classifiers. How will your classifier do? Will it recognize your silly face? How about your friend's? Hmm... why is it not so sure about that frowny face you made?
COMEDY CORNER
How can AI tell if people liked the joke?
"Why do giraffes have long necks?"
"... because they have smelly feet!"
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Did you like this joke from our in-house stand-up virtual comedian? Was that a smile I saw and laughter I heard? Using a technique called multimodal signal processing, AI analyzes our facial expressions from camera feed and the sound we make captured through microphone to learn if we share its sense of humor.
Control My Face
How can AI act like someone else?
"I like broccoli... I wish I can go to bed earlier..." Is that a video of you saying that? Or... did AI take a picture of you and begin to pilot your face using someone else's face? How does it make you feel? This activity invites visitors to experience the uncanny feeling of an AI pretender and ponder the ethical use and development of AI.
LET'S MAKE A PLAN!
How can AI make a good plan?
This activity expands our view of AI -- it's much more than machine learning! Using simple logic, this activity allows visitors to help AI generate plans that include multiple steps, from picking up that soda can someone left on the ground, dropping it in the recycling bin, to sitting down in a chair, kicking back to relax. Creating an AI is much simpler than you think!
And More!
​The exhibit, Virtually Human, is open to public at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley California from November 2023 to May 2025.