{"id":111247,"date":"2017-05-25T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111247"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:37:29","slug":"the-robots-are-colorblind-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/the-robots-are-colorblind-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Robots Are Color-Blind, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111249\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/colorwheel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111249\" class=\"wp-image-111249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/colorwheel.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/colorwheel.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/colorwheel-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/colorwheel-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/colorwheel-1024x480.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robots hate these.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colors: you may not like them, but they\u2019re all we\u2019ve got. Chartreuse, cerise, burnt sienna, ultramarine \u2026 our ability to detect and name these things is all that\u2019s keeping us from melting back into the primordial soup. It makes sense, then, that artificial intelligences would mock us for our rainbow. Robots can\u2019t stand color. This is a known fact. They apprehend the vivid reds and blues of the world as mere data, and they hold humans in contempt for finding the beauty in such things. If you need proof, consider the case of Janelle Shane, who attempted to design a neural network that could name new paint colors. And what did the machine do? It spat out new colors\u00a0full of derision and mockery: Bank Butt. Turdly. Burf Pink. Stoner Blue. Clardic Fug. Caring Tan. Testing. Stanky Bean. Dorkwood. Sand Dan. Dense Blats. Sindis Poop. It was as if the robot was wandering the aisles of Sherwin-Williams and laughing, laughing, laughing, taking all that we hold dear and spitting on it with ersatz robot saliva. Claire Voon has more on Janelle Shane\u2019s experiment, and more of the horrors it wrought: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/381111\/from-farty-red-to-le-cute-white-an-algorithm-generates-absurd-color-names\/\" target=\"_blank\">She fed a learning algorithm a list of about 7,700 Sherwin-Williams paint color names and their RGB values, and watched as it formed its own rules and generated\u00a0different sets of data<\/a>. \u2018Could the neural network learn to invent new paint colors and give them attractive names?\u2019 she posited, giving examples\u00a0of existing ones\u2014Tuscan sunrise, Blushing pear, Tradewind. It would\u00a0be neat\u00a0if AI could alleviate\u00a0a bit of stress from individuals chewing on pencils as they conceive of the next great paint name. But Shane\u2019s results, for the most part, suggest that companies may want to leave AI out of the christening process for now.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In happier, more human news, here\u2019s Danuta Kean on a pair of newly discovered Sylvia Plath poems, which two academics found on a piece of carbon paper at the back of one of her notebooks: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/may\/24\/unseen-sylvia-plath-poems-deciphered-in-carbon-paper\" target=\"_blank\">Using Photoshop, [they] deciphered the typing on the paper, which is watermarked with an image that might have appeared in a Plath poem\u2014a woman gazing at her own reflection in a pool of water<\/a>. First revealed was \u2018To a Refractory Santa Claus,\u2019 a poem about Spain and fairer weather\u2014a subject that Plath returned to later in \u2018Fiesta Melons\u2019 and \u2018Alicante Lullaby.\u2019 Written after Plath and Hughes\u2019s honeymoon in Benidorm, it consists of two eleven-line verses and pleads for escape from the cruelties of an English winter to the fresh fruit and sunshine of warmer climes \u2026 The second poem proved harder to decipher. Titled \u2018Megrims,\u2019 it is a monologue addressed to a doctor by a paranoid speaker about a series of \u2018irregular incidents\u2019 that range from the discovery of a spider in a coffee cup to an owl about to strike.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hilton Als dilates on the singular style of Diane Arbus: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2017\/06\/08\/diane-arbus-art-of-difference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arbus\u2019s photographs were elegant, too\u2014classically composed and cool\u2014but they were on fire with what difference looked like and what it felt like as seen through the eyes of a straight Jewish girl whose power lay in her ability to be herself and not herself\u2014different\u2014all at once<\/a>. The story she told with her camera was about shape-shifting: in order to understand difference one had to not only not dismiss it, but try to become it. \u2018I don\u2019t like to arrange things,\u2019 Arbus once said. \u2018If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself\u2019 \u2026 Whatever her tools, Arbus generally recognized what she wanted to photograph\u2014people and relationships that were queer, or that queered our idea of the \u2018normal.\u2019 Arbus was particularly attuned to postures that connote shame, the horror of avoidance as played out by so-called normal-looking people. In a picture like\u00a0<em>Woman with white gloves and a pocket book, N.Y.C. 1956<\/em>, the figure looks slightly rattled, as if recoiling from the memory of an emotional pummeling that nevertheless, and miraculously, left hair and makeup in place.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Seinfeld<\/em>\u2014good show. <em>Louie<\/em>\u2014good show. But why, James Poniewozik asks, have these two programs inspired season after season of listless sitcoms about the lives of comedians? \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/24\/arts\/television\/comedy-television-im-dying-up-here-louie-maron.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">They say that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: The frog dies in the process<\/a>. At this point, TV is dissecting so many comedians\u2019 psyches that it risks killing the whole genre \u2026 As with a lot of showbiz comedy, there\u2019s an element of write-what-you-know insiderism here\u2014gazing into one\u2019s own belly laughs. But stand-up comedy is also revealing of character in an intimate way. It\u2019s both personal and gladiatorial. Comedians face an audience alone, with no co-stars, no collaborators. They are both material and author, performer and instrument. Even when their material isn\u2019t autobiographical, it\u2019s still personal\u2014their worldview, their judgment\u2014and it\u2019s judged immediately: laugh or no laugh. It\u2019s no-risk, no-reward \u2026 What makes a good story about comedy is what makes good comedy: a fresh take and distinctive material.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The German romantic tradition has migrated from the page to the DJ booth, the filmmaker Romuald Karmakar argues in <em>If I Think of Germany at Night<\/em>, a new documentary about techno: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2017\/05\/rave-against-dying-light\" target=\"_blank\">Karmakar paints an intimate picture of his subjects and their work<\/a>. His austere filmmaking treats them as serious artists, heirs to a national cultural inheritance stretching back to the Romantics of the nineteenth century (the title is a quote from Heinrich Heine\u2019s famously melancholic paean to his homeland, \u2018Night Thoughts\u2019) \u2026 The most illuminating of these chats is with Ata, a congenial bearded chap who delves at length into the history of teutonic techno. Tracing its roots to the illegal parties that sprung up in Berlin\u2019s post-reunification euphoria, he places the genre at the center of his version of German national identity. America\u2019s scene is centered on New York, he says, and Britain\u2019s revolves around London, but techno \u2018is a German sound.\u2019 The political backdrop is different now from that of the 1990s, but still present. The interviews touch on the importance of escapism and an artistic\u00a0<em>Gemeinschaft\u2014<\/em>a community\u2014in the face of terrorism and turmoil. Heine\u2019s poem was written in the context of similarly smoldering unrest across Europe. \u2018If I think of Germany at night,\u2019 he wrote, \u2018then I\u2019m robbed of my sleep.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: an AI tries to name paint colors, with disastrous results; new Sylvia Plath poems turn up; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[1980,6604,13419,7379,27734,13797,17097,28964,247,28965,9295,28963,100,7221,7611,28962,14855,2704,7592],"class_list":["post-111247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-colors","tag-comedians","tag-diane-arbus","tag-djs","tag-documentaries","tag-experiments","tag-german-romanticism","tag-germany","tag-if-i-think-of-germany-at-night","tag-names","tag-paint-names","tag-photography","tag-poems","tag-robots","tag-sherwin-williams","tag-sitcoms","tag-sylvia-plath","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Do Not Let the Robots Name the Colors. 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