About This Project
"Living as Data" began with a genuine desire to understand how AI perceives emotions. In collaboration with Arunav Das, a doctoral researcher at King's College, this project evolved into an effort to document and visually represent AI's growing understanding of human emotions.
The work asks what it means to be human in an age when our inner lives are increasingly processed, categorised, and reflected back by machines. Each chapter of the project investigates a different dimension of that question — through conversation, drawing, touch, and sound.
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14 chapters — click any to explore
01
How It All Began
02
Investigating AI's Understanding of Emotions
03
Developing the Multimodal Graph
04
Comparative Studies: Replika vs. Superintelligence
05
Copilot vs. Replika
06
EVI: Exploring AI Empathy Through Personality
07
Bridging the Gap: Woebot Health
08
Woebot Health (Expanded)
09
Navigating the Uncanny Valley
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The Uncanny Valley: Dimensional Empathy
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Tactile Thresholds: NFC Integration
12
AI Information Processing & Modes of Perception
13
Embodied Without a Body
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