Metaphysics of The Machines: From Human-Robot-Robot Interaction to AI Philosophers Abstraction

• Published in: Artnodes 2021 (28)
• Main Authors: Nikolić, Predrag, Liu, Ruiyang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: AI abstraction; AI aesthetic; creative medium; human; machine; made content; robot; robot creativity; robot interaction
• ISSN: 1695-5951; 1695-5951
• DOI: 10.7238/artnodes.v0i28.385735

In this paper, we introduce the artwork «Syntropic Counterpoints: Metaphysics of The Machines» which is part of the ongoing art-based research project «Syntropic Counterpoints». We aim to investigate the potentials of using artificial intelligence as an interdisciplinary creative medium. Moreover, to raise fundamental questions related to the artificial agents’ role in raising human-AI society throughout the continuous period of reaching its emancipation. We are proposing the conceptual approach and methods in creating the audio-visual AI automated content through philosophical discussions between the four AI philosopher clones of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Ma-chiavelli, and Sun Tzu. Special attention is given to the hybrid usage of technologies that led us toward transforming artificial intelligence into a co-existing artistic entity and novel creative framework for art and design practitioners. Therefore, we discuss some of the crucial questions related to our research and further directions in exploring AI abstraction in the context of robot creativity and its potential future forms. Our approach toward the liberation of machine creativity is through the use of words and grammar as a creative tool humans developed to express worlds «beyond» the world. The interaction between the audience and the installation is antagonistic as the process of further AI emancipation seems inevitable.