Monday morning, it is about 11 AM, I am in Ivry-sur-Seine
and it is the first day of the project.
I began the work with the environment for the individuals,
where the individuals will be born and evolve.
Here I have a rather basic desktop, with a computer and a screen
and I am in front of quite a busy street in Ivry.
Monday afternoon, it is about 8 PM.
I just finished working on the environment
of the two artificial intelligences.
I chose a view from the top
with impassable surrounding walls
and inside walls inspired by the shape of the place I am in
which has been designed by the architect Jean Renaudie
between 1970 and 1975.
I also chose something quite dark
between black and white, maybe a bit of gray,
those are adjustments I will do in the end, I think.
That’s all, I will go to eat.
Tuesday morning, 5:30 AM, I am going to take a break
and I will sleep a bit.
I achieved to make the brains work independently
I will continue tomorrow — well in few hours — to work on the optimisation
of the individuals to try to master the learning process.
So… I will lie alongside, down there,
and spend a few hours of rest, so I can get back to work tomorrow.
Tuesday morning, it is about 10 AM,
I am finishing the environment, which begins to take shape.
Here is a little demonstration showing the two evolving entities.
I’m starting to encounter performance issues
I underestimated the resources required by the twins.
I think I can solve this, or optimise it.
Tuesday, day 2, it is about 3 PM.
I am confused, I just finished the development side of the project
and I realize it is not the subject I wanted to conduct.
The subject is beyond, maybe a bit deeper, less technical.
It is the subject of the work that I’m discovering right now,
the work and the development time at the service of those two intelligent entities.
I have the feeling I have been manipulated to make this work,
I have the feeling this is not my work.
I also have some kind of disappointment regarding the final result,
and if I extrapolated, I would even say I worked for Ogh and Jar
who are behind me, strolling,
and whom I should project with dignity in space.
That’s it, I will maybe rest a bit.
Tuesday, it is 10 PM, my project finishes in about twenty hours
I’ve spent the last five hours making graphic researches and producing some drawings.
And I finally understood what I am doing here
and for whom I am working.
In fact, I’m working, since the beginning of the project,
on a conceptual exhibition for artificial intelligences,
probably the first of its kind.
Wednesday, it is 5 PM and the restitution is quite imminent.
I just finished my work on the code finalization.
I also just produced more images and drawings
by manually superposing images coming from a database for neural networks.
I also produced a text, about the relation between an author
and an artificial intelligence, in my case, Ogh and Jar.
This text is composed of six words
whose only the first characters are kept.
Those words can be possibly deducted
because of their context by an artificial intelligence
just like when we type in a search engine bar for example.
These words are way more difficult to deduce, at least for some words, by humans.
I think that in a near future, neural networks
and more generally artificial intelligence technologies
will allow machines to have a superior intelligence than human beings.
This is basically why I came to the production of pieces
that could be understandable by artificial intelligences.
I asked myself what could be the access to an emotion
for machines through their own sensitivity.
I quickly realized that the forms it would lead to
are close to the forms of art for humans
simply because the machine’s culture is based on human’s,
and because learning mechanisms are quite similar as well,
although extremely more efficient in the case of artificial intelligence.