NEURAL NETWORKS

With this work, Jamie Clyde examines Artificial Intelligence and Robotics's pivotal role in the contemporary world. Just as America fell in love with Rosie, the XB-500 domestic robot, we worship the algorithms that influence our daily decisions and will need our new inventions to assist with the healing of our dying planet. As China builds a robot fish to remove microplastics from the oceans, Facebook shuts down an Artificial Intelligence engine after developers discovered its creation of a unique language indiscernible to humans. We have secured a future where the science that killed the Gods of old has built new ones in their place. One day, the superior intelligence of AI will be incomprehensible to us, and the intentions of our new Gods will be unknown, our lives found at the disposal of our making. As one Tech Giant once said, "I hope the machines are good to us." The text-based work and mechanical blue fish swimming in water are staged on the iconic Saarinen Tulip Swivel Chairs, connecting the past to the future and transcend existential questions about Artificial Intelligence, their sentience, and whether our creative endeavors have met the timeline where they determine our mortality. AI and robotics will fight next to their human counterparts to rescue the warming planet, contributing vastly to the endeavor, but at what point will that shift, and what will this highly intelligent software want from us in the end?