We are Connected
This project is an interactive installation that reveals the relationship and connection between human and machine. Using transcript generated by ChatGPT as input, invite audience to make their choices to answer how they think about human and machine.
This project is intended to be an open-ended ongoing question about “what is human”, “what is machine”, and “what is the relationship between human and machine”. These questions are raised aiming to reflect on the humans’ ability, duty, and position in the context of the blooming of emerging machine intelligence especially AI.
ChatGPT as one of the identical examples of Large Language Models for AI, retains most of the information on the Web just like a blurry image of all the text [1]. ChatGPT can scrape the brief information that has been required, put it in to text sequence, then express it in a human-like tone. For instance, asking questions to ChatGPT is requiring for a brief conclusion for the question on Web. In other words, we are asking questions to a sum of ‘us’ on Web.
The form of the project is in referencing to The Endless Line by Chiharu Shiota [2]. In the art work, pieces of objects and letters are connected by thread lines, making them statistic but floating, light in weight but strong in connection.
This object is aiming to emphasize the “connection” of the words. Inviting audience to create the connecting line between human and machine aspects, weaving a unique web by humans. This is a process of expressing without talking. As in Yoko Ono’s “Painting to Hammer a Nail in”, viewers are invited to complete the open-ended art work [3]. We are answering the questions while reflecting our status of being humans. The text contains compressed information that is used as a powerful expression of collective ideas.
References
[1] T. Chiang, “CHATGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web,” The New Yorker, https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web (accessed Apr. 21, 2024).
[2] “The Endless Line,” CHIHARU SHIOTA, https://www.chiharu-shiota.com/the-endless-line (accessed Apr. 21, 2024).
[3] “Painting to Hammer a nail in (1961/1966/1988) - Yoko Ono: Objects: M+,” Painting to Hammer a Nail In (1961/1966/1988) - Yoko Ono | Objects | M+, https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/collection/objects/painting-to-hammer-a-nail-in-2016396/ (accessed Apr. 21, 2024).
