What did we learn?

Our project was a mix of archival as well as generative. It started out with archiving the images. Archiving the images allow each other to view our idea of love amongst us, which was eye-opening. Then the generative part comes in, which allows us to view the idea of love for the AI.

Insights

Using Runway, we had no control over how the final outcome would appear as it is based on the dataset that we provide. This in turn gave us many unexpected outcomes and in a way also surprised us as the result of the 3 videos were very distinct and had little similarities.

It really showed how Ai used our own images to interpret it into its own and in a way telling its own story.

After a conversation with AI

Having the conversations with the Ai was a different experience for each of us. Sometimes the Ai would reply with short sentences and in some cases a whole storyline. Even though it was something we could not control, it was still interesting to see how the Ai in our conversations seemed like personal anecdotes and sometimes displaying a sort of emotion it experienced.

Conceptual Challenges

Our initial plan was to explore “How does Ai create its own language for love?” by inputting images of five love languages. In this process, we can see how Ai creates their own character based on its interpretation. Nevertheless, If we proceed as initially planned, the ai would get images entirely predictable, our project is not the intention of the test how smart and how accurate. we tried to we needed to develop our ideas more abstractly.

To push the limits of AI further, we changed our concept to whether ai understands love based on our subjective view of what images represent of love. Since love is a human emotion, instead of giving a stock image to Runway, we decided to choose an image that each person thinks expresses love and see how the results come out.

Achievements

In terms of technical issues, there was not much. It was mainly conceptualizing the project was the hardest part. However, we felt thankful that along the way we found a sweet spot of curiousity which drives and pushes us further to do the project.I believe we worked well as a group and tapped on each other's strengths.