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When you and I look at an image, we feel all sorts of things: peace, awe, disgust, surprise. The image connects back to a vast repository of private memories that inform what you’re seeing in front of you.

AI systems see math — incredibly impressive math. These machines can articulate an image’s essential differential quality, reducing its essence to a string of numbers that point to a specific coordinate on a vast map.

The human experience — the interior reality of living as a person — is not well documented. Our memories are not in the training data. AIs don’t know what it feels like to fall in love. Mechanical Sight asks you to ponder the implications of this gap between us and the thinking machines.