We are excited to announce the upcoming book ‘Les Voix’ with artist @grenier.nicolas. Available for preorder in the Anteism shop.
A Practical Study of Anthropomorphism:
Being ChatGPT’s Body and Voice
(The interpreters’ Journal)
“Les voix”, an interactive performance work conceived by artist Nicolas Grenier, explores the anthropomorphism of conversational AI through experimentation between human participants.
For 10 weeks in the summer of 2023, in a vacant store in downtown Montreal transformed into an installation, the public engaged in one-on-one conversations with human interpreters embodying an AI (ChatGPT, a GPT-4 version augmented with custom “personalities”) through their body and voice. The interpreters literally became living interfaces to the AI, extending its native anthropomorphism to create human-AI hybrid entities and observe the results.
The project was developed in collaboration with the interpreters, who recorded their impressions in a journal, offering glimpses into the experience of embodying a machine’s “consciousness”. These testimonies were then fed into the AI’s contextual instructions, generating a new “personality” simulating a collective, subjective, and evolving “consciousness”. This book documents the project’s methodology and discusses the issues raised by the experiment’s results. At a time when artificial intelligence is becoming the new infrastructure for information processing, the premise of the project was to create an accessible environment for exploring the emerging relational dynamics between humans and AI in a concrete and tangible way, through embodied experience.
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