Alexandros Pallis (1851–1935)

If demotic Greek is the language of “hoi-polloi”, what is the “language” of machine learning?

Alexandros Pallis, a proponent of Demotic Greek, printed the translation of the Gospels in Alexandria, the republication of which led to the violent protests known as “Evangelika” (Gospel riots). The bust made by the great sculptor Constantin Dimitriadis was placed in that spot in 1935, and since then, the embedding of time, the corrosion from vegetation and lichens, have made it a part of the city’s natural history. Next to Helin, a sculpture created algorithmically from thousands of 3D models of busts, it raises the question AI’s ability to amplify or erase not just our biases but also our own beliefs.