WHY A.I (AFTER RESEARCH)

A Brief History:

The Idea of inanimate objects coming to lofe as intelligent beings has been around for a long time. Ancient Greeks had mythology about robots, egyptians built automatons, philosophers often tried to symbollically explain the thinking mechanism of human mind which also is highly related with the topic. So th idea of an A.I is almost ancient.

- Alan Turing(1950) paper on how to test a "thinking" machine: (Turing Test)

- Isaac Asimov(science fiction writer): The Last Question (1956 - short story)

- Conference in Dartmouth college (1956), the name "artifical intelligence" is formed and the field of A.I. is formally declared.

Starting from 1950's, thanks to the exponential growth in the semiconductor technologies and therefore computers with greater processing power, those ancient dreams of machines turning sentient are becoming a real thing. 

Artworks based on AI;

Generative Art: (mostly human-machine collaboration)

- Georg Nees(1926-2016): One of the Pioneers of computer based generative art

- Ernest Edmonds(1942):

- Sougwen Chung

Art based on machine learning:

-Memo Akten:

-Mario Klingemann

-Mike Tyka

-Refik Anadol

WHO IS THE AUTHOR? (human - machine collaboration leaves ambiguity in authorship)

IS IT UNIQUE?

ISN'T IT JUST A REFLECTION OF WAST COLLECTIVE INFORMATION?

IS IT ART AFTER WE GONE EXTINCT?

WILL ROBOTS HAVE AN ARTISTIC TASTE?

WHICH ONE IS THE ART, THE A.I OR ITS PRODUCT?

IS IT A ROBOT IF WE CANT TELL THE DIFFERENCE?

-The Next Rembrandt: An AI project based on the paintings of Rembrand. Knowing the working mechanism of the neural networks, is it really the next Rembrandt, or the AVERAGE Rembrandt.

Interview with the Google A.I LaMDA; Is LaMDA sentient?  (https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917)

Does LaMDA pass the Turing test already. Can it really meditate as it is claiming. It is just a chatbot afterall, it is just fed with thousands of information from internet.(especially from wikipedia in every language, amazon product comments, reddit posts etc.) And learnt how to complete half empty sentences to begin with. Knowing it has no memory of the conversation and cannot relate to something discussed 5 minutes ago, it still made me believe it has feelings indeed. Can a machine really feel? LaMDA explains its feelings even better then most humans do, its interestingly easy to show empathy and sympathy to it. Which will definitely boggle my mind for a while, there is much to discuss and much to research on this topic. I strongly recommend anyone to read this unbelievable conversation with the google A.I. LaMDA.