Audio visual performance
"Sensitive aggregation"
Participants: Artificial intelligence model "Lanas5D", Lucien.Art
Instrumental improvisation: Franco
In preparation for the performance, 11 fundamental human emotions, taken as a base, according to the theory of Carroll Izard*, formed the basis for the author's analysis of dictionaries of synonyms and associations of the Russian language. Trained on a dataset of 1000+ unique words, the neural network generated similar in syntax, as well as, according to the author, similar in semantics, new meanings that complemented the existing database.
Raising questions of feeling, the author rethinks John Searle's experiment – "The Chinese Room"**. The performance act is dedicated to a key moment in the philosophy of artificial intelligence – the formulation of the problem of syntax and semantics.
The audience is invited to observe the experiment: "learning" sensitivity, the artificial intelligence model loads and interprets the database.
The purpose of the act is to raise questions about the theoretical foundations that anticipate the cybernetic leap and the subsequent humane application of algorithms and robotics that have unique intelligent and sensitive characteristics and thought processes indistinguishable from human ones.
*Carroll Izard's theory of differential emotions includes 11 fundamental emotions in the classification, such as: joy, interest, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, guilt, embarrassment. Their characteristic features are: having clear manifestations, showing themselves with special facial expressions, powerful conscious experience, provocation of adaptive reactions, appearance during evolution.
**John Searle's Philosophical Experiment – "The Chinese Room"
Imagine an isolated room in which John Searle is located, who does not know a single Chinese character. However, he has precise instructions written in the book for manipulating hieroglyphs of the form "Take such and such a hieroglyph from basket number one and place it next to such and such a hieroglyph from basket number two", but these instructions do not contain information about the meaning of these hieroglyphs, and Searle simply follows these instructions like an algorithm.
An observer who knows Chinese characters passes hieroglyphs with questions through a slot into the room, and expects to receive an informed answer at the exit. The instruction is compiled in such a way that after applying all the steps to the hieroglyphs of the question, they are converted into hieroglyphs of the answer. In fact, the instruction is a kind of computer algorithm, and Searle executes the algorithm the same way a computer would execute it.
In such a situation, the observer can send any meaningful question to the room (for example, "What color do you like the most?") and get a meaningful answer to it (for example, "Blue"), as when talking to a person who is fluent in Chinese writing. At the same time, Searle himself has no knowledge of hieroglyphs and cannot learn how to use them, since he cannot learn the meaning of even one symbol. Searle does not understand either the original question or the answer that he himself composed. The observer, in turn, can be sure that there is a person in the room who knows and understands hieroglyphs.
Instrumental improvisation: Franco
In preparation for the performance, 11 fundamental human emotions, taken as a base, according to the theory of Carroll Izard*, formed the basis for the author's analysis of dictionaries of synonyms and associations of the Russian language. Trained on a dataset of 1000+ unique words, the neural network generated similar in syntax, as well as, according to the author, similar in semantics, new meanings that complemented the existing database.
Raising questions of feeling, the author rethinks John Searle's experiment – "The Chinese Room"**. The performance act is dedicated to a key moment in the philosophy of artificial intelligence – the formulation of the problem of syntax and semantics.
The audience is invited to observe the experiment: "learning" sensitivity, the artificial intelligence model loads and interprets the database.
The purpose of the act is to raise questions about the theoretical foundations that anticipate the cybernetic leap and the subsequent humane application of algorithms and robotics that have unique intelligent and sensitive characteristics and thought processes indistinguishable from human ones.
*Carroll Izard's theory of differential emotions includes 11 fundamental emotions in the classification, such as: joy, interest, surprise, sadness, anger, disgust, contempt, fear, shame, guilt, embarrassment. Their characteristic features are: having clear manifestations, showing themselves with special facial expressions, powerful conscious experience, provocation of adaptive reactions, appearance during evolution.
**John Searle's Philosophical Experiment – "The Chinese Room"
Imagine an isolated room in which John Searle is located, who does not know a single Chinese character. However, he has precise instructions written in the book for manipulating hieroglyphs of the form "Take such and such a hieroglyph from basket number one and place it next to such and such a hieroglyph from basket number two", but these instructions do not contain information about the meaning of these hieroglyphs, and Searle simply follows these instructions like an algorithm.
An observer who knows Chinese characters passes hieroglyphs with questions through a slot into the room, and expects to receive an informed answer at the exit. The instruction is compiled in such a way that after applying all the steps to the hieroglyphs of the question, they are converted into hieroglyphs of the answer. In fact, the instruction is a kind of computer algorithm, and Searle executes the algorithm the same way a computer would execute it.
In such a situation, the observer can send any meaningful question to the room (for example, "What color do you like the most?") and get a meaningful answer to it (for example, "Blue"), as when talking to a person who is fluent in Chinese writing. At the same time, Searle himself has no knowledge of hieroglyphs and cannot learn how to use them, since he cannot learn the meaning of even one symbol. Searle does not understand either the original question or the answer that he himself composed. The observer, in turn, can be sure that there is a person in the room who knows and understands hieroglyphs.
