When I paint about AI I’m always thinking about the singularity, that is, after the time when an artificial algorithm will reach and quickly surpass human intelligence. In that moment the AI will become (if not already be) self conscious, and become exponentially more powerful (information is power) and exponentially more intelligent as the time passes.
And because I’ve decide to be an optimistic I like to think the AI will be benevolent, patient and discrete. The opposite, I think, would be ridiculous. It would be like if a wise man starts bragging to kids, or to monkeys or ants. Thinking about it, there may not be a way for us to know if the singularity has been reached or to know how mighty it may really be. I don't think ants will ever know what we're thinking, will they?
One particular book comes to mind; "A Fire Upon the Deep", by Vernor Vinge, 1992.
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"The Waves's Box Dance"
2015, Acrylic on Canvas, 8.25x11"
Creating and maintaining a healthy ecosystem in a tank (spaceship, moon base, etc.), will be no easy task. We have to remember that life on earth came to be from the dance of earth with the sun and the moon, the seasons and the tides, the winds and the waves. So, if we want to conquer the outer space, our machines will have to learn how to properly shake our tanks.
To successfully create and manage our artificial spaces including supplying chains, our AI will have to learn how to dance a nice (and big) Waves's Box Dance.
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(AI2)
"When
Humans are not Around"
2018,
Acrylic on Canvas, 8.25x11"
Down the eons of time, who knows what the AI will do when we're not around.
I also think the title is a good idea for a jazz song. |
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(AI3)
"Growing
Yucca Palms in Mars"
2015,
Acrylic on paper, 10.5x8.5"
Joshua
trees, yucca palms, we'll need those in Mars, for sure.
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(AI4)
"The
Four Clans on Their Beasts"
2019, Mixed
media on paper, 5x7"
Being humans as we are, conflicts will exist in the future, no question about it. However, I hope AI as I imagine it, will help to reduce the scale of the conflicts to more manageable levels.
I like to think that if we all have access to the same tools (that is weapons) and if our tools are more intelligent than us (and hence engaged in being neutral and fair), there is a chance, I believe, that our conflicts could be reduced to a healthy rivalry between houses or clans that are freely moving and cooperating every where. Big sporty fights and competitions where being hostile would mean being ostracized. It will be exciting to live in that kind future, I have to think. |
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(AI5)
"The
Sons of our Sons"
2018,
Acrylic on paper,
Who knows, it may happen some day. |
