Artificial Inteligence
Artist Bethany Hadfield collaborates with Scientist Jonny Jackson to explore his research training Artificial Intelligence to recognise markers of heart disease.
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Artist Bethany Hadfield takes you into a digital environment where blood vessels grow and the heart beats. This piece echoes the synthetic digital veins and arteries created to train artificial intelligence to recognise markers of heart disease. Bethany is interested in exploring a multidisciplinary approach to art making and the ideas that manifest when art and science assimilate. She believes it is important to explore difference, rather than commonalities, and feels that if we bring together two quite different approaches the outcome will be unpredictable, which will result in creating something new for both artist and scientist. |
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| Scientist Jonny Jackson invites you to answer the questions and contribute to a growing database that will train a fictional Artificial Intelligence to make decisions independently. The piece highlights the moralistic nature of many of the perceived dangers of, and obstacles to, the adoption of AI technology. Jonny has been involved in several projects beyond his studies, working with artists, writers, actors, and the public. They continue to remind him of the importance of sharing science with diverse communities to influence, inspire and learn from them |
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The Research
Artificial Intelligence is a set of technologies that allow computers to automate human intellectual activities and to learn to perform tasks. It has the potential to transform healthcare by supporting doctors to complete faster and more accurate diagnosis of disease.
To teach AI how to perform a new task requires a huge number of meticulously labelled images known as training data. Sourcing and labelling hundreds of thousands of patient scans is labour intensive, time consuming and can sometimes be an additional risk to patients.
Instead, digital synthetic data can be generated. Using mathematics, the biological and physiological factors of the heart can be mimicked. This allows digital veins and arteries to be created and is currently being used to train AI to recognise markers of heart disease with the hope of improving diagnosis.
