Diemut Strebe O tempora, o mores! A robotic mouth recites prayers generated by artificial intelligence

The Internet Protocol Mar 29, 2020

The German artist Diemut Strebe came up with this installation and brought it to life. The presented art-installation is called The Prayer, and it recites prayers generated by artificial intelligence.

To make the concept of the prayer mouth a reality, the creator collected religious texts to train a special algorithm with. When the self-learning system began to make progress by composing prayers on its own, it was connected to the software for converting text into speech. Then the system was equipped with a speaker, a silicone mouth, and a silicone nose that move in time to the prayers.

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