My work pictured by AI – Richard Hahnloser

What is this work about? How does a young songbird learn its song? How does it compare the immature vocalizations it produces to the adult template syllables it hears and strives to imitate? It turns out that young birds have a very efficient way of learning their song vocabulary, by identifying for each target syllable they hear the closest vocalization in their developing repertoire. Thus, songbirds are efficient vocabulary learners. The process they use of assigning vocal errors to their vocalizations is computationally similar to the strategy used by taxi companies to dispatch their taxis to customers.

The first word that came to mind when seeing the AI-generated picture? Cubism.