An Unnecessary Disagreement About the Concept of Birds


UV print on Dibond, various sizes

             Ever since the publication of the first paper on AI learning, 'Programs with Common Sense’ in 1958, the problem of qualification has been a source of intense research and debate.

  Now let us consider Tweety, a robin - a small brown bird, feathered and red of breast.

Applying Commonsense reasoning to our knowledge base, we can infer Tweety is an instance of robin, which is a subset of bird and bird is marked with property canfly, it follows that Tweety and robin have property canfly.

Until we meet the other Tweety - a mythical australian flying ostrich.

This series of images offers glimpses at the sites of battle, where these intense conflicts are fought.