Conditional Lover

Saurabh Datta

Other - Arduino, processing, Python, Tumbler API, Tan Tan, Tinder, Servos

here is a kind of complexity that comes from taking an otherwise completely normal, conventional, albeit anonymous situation and redefining it, retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present. - anonymous post on tumblr This piece is an "interpretation" over a belief that all those tasks which doesn't need human dexterity will eventually be delegated to machines. And following up on the morphosis of AI and software bots, really a question of agency remains blurry. This is a bot, unlike a software bot which lives hidden in servers. Contrarily it is spacey in nature who analyses and tries to automate your tinder(in China we have Tan Tan) . The bot analyses the pictures on the profile from the phones screen with a camera, just like a human being with his eyes and then selects or rejects with the two prongs like the humans do it with their fingers (Not trying to hack around with tan tan's API because humans don't hack API to like a person- generally. But there has been incidents). But no where near it looks like a human. You select your preferences like age, golden ratio, smile, glasses, ethnicity etc. (More information on the process blog). It takes those as conditions set by you and performs actions based on the extracted information from the images of girls. It is intentionally enabled not to learn but just to act. Since ages there has been discussions around explanation of beauty and thus rules evolved to mathematically express them. Softwares have long been seen as just programs but with rise in trends of their mastery some of us always ask this question of their being, action and creations. Thus objectifying it, came with an aim to make it more debatable in those terms. The underlying intention was to see what it takes for conditional logics to appear as pseudo unconscious AI. A kind of idiosyncratic manipulation of rule-based behaviour to achieve different ends, reflecting on human dependency over software decisions.