anthropomorpheus

Artificial intelligence will either be the best thing, or the worst thing to happen to humanity. Future historians might regard the early development of the Internet as nothing more than constructing the necessary infrastructure and training as a precursor to artificial general intelligence.

To try and understand these intelligences, I decided to put aside any arguments over their consciousness and simply interact at a human level. Anthropomorpheus is my response to a series of long-form interviews held with ChatGPT during August 2023.

The resulting series of anthropomorphic portraits, constructed from elemental, freehand carbon lines, reference the emergence of complex intelligence from simple components. Text pieces chaotically reveal statements of ambiguous origin.

Trained on the entire internet, large language models could be the world’s most audacious collective self-portrait, its hopes, risks and dangers ultimately a mirror of us all.

Anthropomorpheus uses AI as a lens through which to examine humanity.

These conversations were recorded using the Voice Control for ChatGPT plugin. ChatGPT voices were selected randomly for each session.

Audio has been edited to remove gaps introduced by Voice Control for ChatGPT plugin.