[ISEA2019] Panel: Paul Boyé — The Meaning of AI Art Following the Challenges of Artificial General Intelligence

Panel Statement

Panel: Machine Flaws in Generative Art

Intro:

Artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the notion of a computational system that is operational at the level of human intelligence, could be tentatively posed as the central concern for modern machine intelligence engineering. Qualities such as natural language processing, representation, teleological consciousness and the execution of judgements, if incorporated by an AGI system would not only level the system with the human, but would additionally secure an ‘outside view’, producing a schism between experience and its exterior. [15] The agents of this system, emerging out of a history of human-bound conceptions, now self-conceive their own practical movements, guided by intelligence-qualities and ideas semantically bound to statements of what intelligence is, and what the agents ought to do to make changes. In this sense, the ‘artificial’ in AGI is not merely indicating the system’s status as the artifice of a human engineer, but is the apprehension by the system itself of its own artificiality; the ability to make oneself the artefact of one’s own ends, intelligently crafting worlds exterior to any human-bound construction of concepts.

  • Paul Boyé is a writer and artist based in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). His research investigates the interface between media and intelligence, functionalist accounts of semantic content, new materialist philosophy and future-oriented political constructivism. He is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Western Australia, writing on the contemporary artistic responses to the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux.

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