As industrial robots move into shared human spaces, their opaque decision making threatens safety, trust, and public oversight. This artwork, Airy, asks whether complex multi agent AI can become intuitively understandable by staging a competition between two reinforcement trained robot arms that snap a bedsheet skyward. Building on three design principles, competition as a clear metric (who lifts higher), embodied familiarity (audiences recognize fabric snapping), and sensor to sense mapping (robot cooperation or rivalry shown through forest and weather projections), the installation gives viewers a visceral way to read machine intent. Observations from five international exhibitions indicate that audiences consistently read the robots' strategies, conflict, and cooperation in real time, with emotional reactions that mirror the system's internal state. The project shows how sensory metaphors can turn a black box into a public interface.
翻译:随着工业机器人进入人类共享空间,其不透明的决策机制对安全性、信任度及公众监督构成威胁。艺术作品《Airy》通过设置一场强化学习训练的双机械臂竞赛——将床单弹向空中——探讨了复杂多智能体人工智能系统能否变得直观可理解。该装置基于三项设计原则:以竞争作为清晰度量标准(谁弹得更高)、具身熟悉感(观众能识别织物弹射动作)、以及传感器到感知的映射(通过森林与天气投影展现机器人协作或对抗),为观众提供了一种直观解读机器意图的体验。来自五次国际展演的观察表明,观众能持续实时解读机器人的策略、冲突与合作,其情绪反应与系统内部状态相呼应。本项目展示了感官隐喻如何将黑盒系统转化为公共交互界面。