ON line le conferenze di due importanti giornate studio “Assembling Intelligence”:
Artists, designers, and researchers will be brought together to highlight a spectrum of alternative definitions for “artificial intelligence”. The discussions will introduce much-needed diversity into the otherwise monochromatic and frequently cynical perspectives manifested in mainstream corporate AI models.
Speakers : Nadia Piet (AixDesign) / Dries Depoorter / Silvia Weidenbach OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT (2022), initially started as a not-for-profit but rapidly turned to commercial AI tools. Along with other companies, OpenAI is set to trigger another peak in Silicon Valley culture characterized by large-scale, profit-driven software development, exerting monopolized influence over ethical and regulatory guidelines and obfuscating their algorithms to avoid early competition. In response to these dynamics, we will look at open source art and design movements, pedagogical AI toolkits, and the potential for tiny datasets to challenge data-hungry approaches. How can open knowledge sharing empower creative processes and aesthetics to diverge from mainstream AIs?
TALKS- Topic #4 : AI Materiality Speakers : José Halloy / Antonio Casilli / Audrey Samson Ever since cybernetics proposed an innate connection between environment and technology, computational metaphors have used ecological terminology. Our data is ‘the new oil’ to fuel AI; it’s just ‘in the cloud’ rather than underground. We also know that artificial intelligence is built through the extraction of fossil fuels and rare earth minerals, and applied through clicking and labelling done by underpaid gig workers. Art and design are inevitably confronted with questions around the ethical and environmental approaches they should adopt in light of the high cost for the current AIs to exist. How should we position ourselves when engaging with AI, and what alternative strategies could we adopt?