This work makes use of image recognition in artificial intelligence (AI) as an allusion to human memory. One photo is picked from each year of Hong Kong’s history from its colonial beginning to the present (1841-2022), and objects in the 181 photos are identified through a machine learning programme. As some of the images were captured over a century ago with low resolution, fewer objects are identified through AI which alike human finding antiquated memories relatively vague. The identified objects turned into computer language and subsequently evolved into sound. When the 181 photos with AI processing are collaged together, the overall image resembles a chronological map of Hong Kong. Can you recognise Hong Kong from this map?

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這作品以人工智能的辨認功能作為記憶的比喻，從香港開埠以來到現在

(1841-2022)，每年揀取一張照片，並運用這181張照片，以機器學習的程式辨認出照片上的東西。由於有些圖像是來自一百多年前，這些低解像度的圖像令人工智能辨認出較少的東西，有點像人類對古舊記憶相對模糊的狀況；然後再將辨認出來的東西化作電腦語言，再演化成聲音。181張經過人工智能處理的照片拼貼起來猶如一幅香港的時間地圖，從這幅時間地圖中你認得香港嗎？