As AI develops, its demand for data increases. Data to AI is like a cookie to the always-hungry cookie monster. Yufei Gao embodies the cookie monster to demonstrate how it operates and consumes. This research project aims to understand the cookie monster and its impact on the world.
Cookie Monster
As AI develops, its demand for data increases. Data to AI is like a cookie to the always-hungry cookie monster. It’s thought process when learning or making decisions gets increasingly harder to interpret the more data it consumes. This mysterious process is referred to as a ‘black box’. This idea, however, extends beyond the mathematical. AI’s environmental costs, energy consumption and the misalignment between its values and ours, are all their own respective black boxes. In a series of absurd performative video essays, Yufei Gao embodies the cookie monster to demonstrate how it operates and consumes. The video installation is a research project that aims to understand the cookie monster and its impact on the world.