ARCH 701-210

Cyborg Pareidolia

Though some are panicking that AI is eventually going to replace human judgment, the more likely scenario is that human judgment will simply be altered and modified by the presence of AI “partners.” Partners, perhaps, because the technology currently classified as AI does not comfortably fit our ideas of what a tool is. Because AI technologies seek to simulate our own capabilities, to say that AI is nothing but a tool would imply that we are also nothing but a tool. So, counter to this idea of AI being merely a new kind of tool would have to be the premise that AI is like us. Therefore, potential collaborators. This studio will be continuing an ongoing investigation into this potentiality. Using one or more networks from a new class of AI software, style transfer algorithms, cycleGANs (generative adversarial networks), etc., our studio will experiment with how this new automated process of “seeing” might begin to suggest both new architectural forms and expressions as well as new grounds upon which these new architectures would occupy.