The Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) in Tampa is opening a new AI exhibit where guests can solve puzzles and paint with machines.
Launching on 6 September at MOSI, Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine is a hands-on travelling exhibit designed to make AI exciting and accessible.
It features games, smart machines and interactive challenges to show how AI works, or as MOSI’s president and CEO John Graydon Smith puts it;
“AI might sound mysterious, but at MOSI, we break it down to the basics, so anyone, any age, can grasp how it works and what it can do in the future,” he said.
“It’s already in your pocket, your home, and your job, whether you realize it or not.
“This exhibit makes it fun to see how machines learn, sometimes even better than we do, and why that matters. You’ll leave with a whole new perspective.”
The exhibit is a futuristic playground where guests can train AI to recognise them, paint a selfie in the style of Van Gogh or Picasso, and hear a piano compose new music using the sounds of 1,400 instruments.
Solve puzzles, paint with machines at MOSI
Additionally, visitors will get to rearrange blocks and take on stacking puzzles to learn in the same way as an artificial intelligence system.
Visitors will also get to play with a huge version of the Simon electronic game, compare real photos to AI-generated images, explore how AI is used in films, and give AI clues and watch it solve mysteries.
Artificial Intelligence: Your Mind & The Machine is created by the Relayer Group, a consulting and development firm specialising in artificial intelligence.
“Our goal is to give every visitor an introduction to AI that helps them understand what the technology will mean to them,” said HP Newquist, the AI historian and author who created the exhibit.
“Kids are certain to work with AI in the years to come, from self-driving cars to digital personal assistants that will help them with their homework.
“Adults are already trying to make sense of it.”
Images courtesy of The Relayer Group
