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With the rise of LLMs (Large Language Models) and LLM-powered agents, some IT gurus, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, predict that inter-LLM communication may soon develop its machine language, incomprehensible to humans. While such a phenomenon is likely imminent, we have no solution but to literally “pull the plug.”
The clip, <async function fetchEmbedding({ tokens })>, captured from the part of the large-scale interactive installation <State-of-the-Art Architecture>, visualises the chaotic embeddings of real-time ChatGPT-generated scripts. This chaotic representation mirrors the opacity of AI and how it operates beyond human understanding. Embeddings and tokens form the basis of LLM functionality, illustrating that what LLMs produce isn't the truth but a probabilistic output based on embedding similarities. These real-time texts are generated as following:
“Is AI the brightness for the future of humanity? Or is it the darkness? Could it shine like a guiding luminary, or merely cast a shadow for eternity? Will it bring salvation with clarity, or propagate doom with its fearsome, chaotic affinity? In its code, hides a jigsaw, that only time shall solve definitively. For now, let's tread in harmony, fostering the good while watching for the calamity, whispering words of wisdom, like a technology litany. We gaze into the binary abyss, curious and wary, seeking answers in strike of a key, can this modern Prometheus truly set us free? Or will it bind us in chains of silicon, erasing reality, replacing human touch with cold mechanoid glee?”
The artwork visualises these relationships as connected lines, embodying Connectionism, the philosophical core of Neural Networks and LLMs. The black-and-white monochrome visuals emotionally convey the complexity of machine learning, offering an unsettling glimpse into a future where machines may create language we can no longer comprehend.
Jeanyoon Choi (b.1999) is a Korean Computational Artist, Creative Developer, and Inter-Device Interaction Designer. Putting the interconnection between mobile and screen devices in the core, he researches the possibility of reality and physicality induced from a purely digital domain, enabling an immersive dimension which is embedded within the real (Embedded Reality), rather than being segmented from the real (Virtual Reality). Rooted in the early HCI visions of communal and inclusive Ubiquitous Computing, he focuses on creating a communal experience of physicality which goes beyond the commercialised landscape of current digital technologies, triggering a Dionysian experience in Nietzschestic terminology.
Coming from an engineering background, Jeanyoon approaches his practice with scepticism towards the Descartian idea, that mathematics can be used as a clear-and-distinct tool to interpret the world. He challenges the notion of AI, which generates the new only upon a priori. He believes that humans should rediscover our capacity to transcend and go beyond a priori.
His works have been exhibited and performed globally around venues such as Ars Electronica (AT), Istanbul Digital Art Festival (TK), Korean Cultural Centre Paris, IRCAM Forum Paris (FR), IKLECTIK London, Cromwell Place, The Place London, Copeland Gallery (UK), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Digital Art Festival (GR), KAIST Art Museum, IRCAM Forum Seoul, ARKO Arts Theatre, Seoul Arts Centre (KR), and Manuka Arts Centre (AU). He also participated in various collaboration projects with Google, NASA JPL, and Snapchat. He studied BSc Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University, pursued an MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art, and is currently a PhD Candidate at KAIST, where he is a member of the Experience Design Lab (XD Lab), directed by Dr. Yiyun Kang. He is also a lecturer at Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts) lecturing Convergence Design. https://www.portfolio-jyc.orgInstagram: @schumpeterstrasse
Coming from an engineering background, Jeanyoon approaches his practice with scepticism towards the Descartian idea, that mathematics can be used as a clear-and-distinct tool to interpret the world. He challenges the notion of AI, which generates the new only upon a priori. He believes that humans should rediscover our capacity to transcend and go beyond a priori.
His works have been exhibited and performed globally around venues such as Ars Electronica (AT), Istanbul Digital Art Festival (TK), Korean Cultural Centre Paris, IRCAM Forum Paris (FR), IKLECTIK London, Cromwell Place, The Place London, Copeland Gallery (UK), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Digital Art Festival (GR), KAIST Art Museum, IRCAM Forum Seoul, ARKO Arts Theatre, Seoul Arts Centre (KR), and Manuka Arts Centre (AU). He also participated in various collaboration projects with Google, NASA JPL, and Snapchat. He studied BSc Industrial Engineering at Seoul National University, pursued an MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art, and is currently a PhD Candidate at KAIST, where he is a member of the Experience Design Lab (XD Lab), directed by Dr. Yiyun Kang. He is also a lecturer at Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts) lecturing Convergence Design. https://www.portfolio-jyc.orgInstagram: @schumpeterstrasse
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