Short Thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence)——Starting from Matsuo Kimiya's "Tsuba Yingen Torichan Sings Desperado" & "The Night of Stars Falling"

When I was a child, my imagination of the future was roughly inseparable from what was depicted in comics: towering ocean currents, floating cars, robots that look the same as you and me, and high-tech products that can realize human dreams. .

The funny thing is, that is ultimately an unrealistic fantasy. As AI, AR, VR, blockchain, cloud computing and other technologies continue to make breakthroughs, and Apple Vision Pro triggers a craze for purchasing and unboxing, everyone gradually realizes in these processes that the future is not actually a break or a huge change. In the end, it's more like a middle-of-the-road version of Cyberpunk.

Looking around, in the face of numerous new technologies, AI is undoubtedly the darling that attracts the most attention from the world.

It releases the depth and breadth of human intelligence database, can simulate the human brain to make decisions, and may even break the boundary between "machine insensitivity" and "human emotion". This feature has also deeply impressed writers and artists for a long time. interest. To give two examples of recent reading, Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro ("Klara and the Sun"), who is good at telling stories through memories, or British writer Ian Mack, who always tests the boundaries of human nature with words. Youn ("Machines Are Like Me, Humans Are Like You") are all wonderful works in recent years that describe the intersection of artificial intelligence and the human world.

I am not an expert in the field of technology. The main reason why I mention this is because I visited the "Hello, Human" special exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei a few days ago. The exhibition focused on artificial intelligence and discussed the application and legal aspects of AI. , media relations, history and personal memory, even tracking lost emotions...etc.

The most impressive work touched my heart as a viewer in a very simple way.

"Tsumu Sound Source Torichan Sings Desperado" and "Night of the Falling Star Wish" are works by the artist Matsuo Kimiya who won the grand prize of Japan's first Artificial Intelligence Art Competition. According to media reports, this is his creation in memory of his deceased wife, using AI to recreate his deceased wife. face and song.

The picture of the work is different from the high resolution pursued today, as if returning to the 1990s at the end of the century, with strong memory tones and a sense of blur being highlighted. Although the protagonist (Matsuo Kimiya's late wife) is reappeared through artificial intelligence, the carousel of photos vaguely tells that "she only exists in past memories, not at this moment" and "it is photography that brings the passing moment to life." Recalling the private gaze between the artist and his wife."

The audience wore headphones and sat on the benches in the stairwell, looking at the memory album and listening to the song of Mr. Matsuo's late wife. Suddenly, a very delicate emotion emerges through the hearing, which is a very deep emotional undercurrent. Watching it, the audience will be completely still in the time and space where the picture and the song are intertwined. At first, I didn't understand the concept behind this work, but I could vaguely feel the metaphor of "absence" and "absence", which may be why this work is so charming.

Although the woman summoned by AI has almost the same figure as Matsuo Kyouya's late wife, she is completely different in nature. Perhaps, the audience can experience the artist Matsuo's longing for his wife during the process, his expectations during creation, the high point reached when the work is completed, and then the loss after each playback. It is a very Scorsese-like story.

Sophie Carr's works, Xu Hua's "Keeping It True", and the Japanese artist Matsuo Kimiya I met this time, I am fascinated by this kind of revelation of my private life, which is presented in another form to create an intersection and extension with the audience. Or the creation of empathy. Perhaps optimistically, artists will not be replaced by AI, because in the creative field, AI is a kind of simulation and expansion, and it will eventually return to the most fundamental reason why people are human.