BINA48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture 48*)[1] is a robotic face combined with chatbot functionalities, enabling simple conversation facilities.
[29] BINA48 has been featured in Wired,[30] The New Yorker,[31] Vogue,[32] Forbes,[33] HuffPost,[34][35] Futurism.com,[36] Inside Higher Ed,[37] Black Public Media,[38] ZDNET,[39] Garage,[40] This Is Love,[41] The Nod,[42] The Doctors,[43] Helsingin Sanomat,[44] and Canaltech.
[45] In 2014, artist Stephanie Dinkins started Conversations with BINA48, a project to explore how an algorithm-oriented world would affect various minority groups.
[46] In 2015, BINA48 appeared at the Museum of Modern Art's "Ocean of Images" exhibition, part of the DIS Collective's video installation.
[citation needed] In 2020, artist Sasha Stiles based an exhibition (A Valentine for the Future/Ars Poetica Cybernetica) on her conversations with BINA48.
[51] In an article for The Guardian, Ronson wrote, "And even though my conversation with BINA48 often descended into a crazed babble, there were moments of real clarity.