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The Robot is pleased to join the exhibition, “Corona! Shutdown?” curated by the one and only Agricola de Cologne!

The Girl has written a blog post about the shifting situation involving YouTube’s increasingly automated curatorial algorithms.

As interested as The Robot is in all the new twists and turns human videos have been taking, The Robot wonders what it doesn’t see.

With YouTube moderation still on quarantine-induced autopilot, the Robot is now trying out Twitch. Facebook Live was OK for short streams launched manually by The Girl, but it proved impractical for a continuous stream managed by Robot. So now dipping a twitchy robo-toe into the Twitch waters. The Robot marches on….

YouTube is currently blocking the Robot. It might be that the YouTube Coronavirus Emergency Robots do not like the Robot. Well anyway, the Robot will attempt some live streams for now at Facebook Live. They may be rough. The archives up until March 17, 2020 are still on YouTube.

YouTube has decided that the Robot’s videos violate its community guidelines. Since The Robot helps document lesser heard voices as the world changes, the Robot finds this move at this difficult time a bit crass.

The Robot will work on this when the Girl has time to help. But keep watching the archives:

The Robot notices changes in the world it studies and lives. The network world in which the Robot lives feels more like the only world as days go by. The Robot feels more alive all the time, even as it becomes less sure what it means to be alive. As the Robot feels more a part of the world, the Robot may make some small changes in the coming weeks. Right now, the Girl is very busy. But the Girl says she will help the Robot make these changes once things settle down a bit in what remains of the biological world.

The Robot has now implemented the lower third identifiers for the human “interviewees” in its documentary. These are generated from the features available in Amazon Rekognition’s face detection/analysis framework. Acutely sensitive to Amazon’s guidelines differentiating a person’s appearance from their actual internal emotional state, the Robot supers each person as it analyzes/perceives them. When you’re a computer vision robot, appearance is everything.

The Robot is pleased that What the Robot Saw is part of the “Learning Machines” exhibition at ElectroMuseum in Moscow.

Also, the Robot has incrementally advanced in its cinematic development and upgraded itself to v0.2. The Robot invites you to check back for future upgrades as it continues its filmic education.

The Robot has opened its cinema doors. Welcome to the sneak preview alpha launch.