“The World According to AI” Exhibition: A Deep Dive into the Unseen Side of Artificial Intelligence

The Jeu de Paume gallery eschews the cute imagery of Studio Ghibli, the familiar “starter packs,” and the 3D collectible toy-like portraits. You won’t find any of the memes that have recently flooded social media. The exhibition, “The World According to AI,” uncompromisingly dispenses with the playful and lighthearted trappings with which artificial intelligence (AI) is adorned in our lives.

By featuring recent works (less than ten years old), either previously unseen or created specifically for the occasion, the project, following in the footsteps of the “Supermarket of Images” exhibition (2020), directly immerses the visitor in the little-known, and often dark, behind-the-scenes aspects of AI: its creation, but also its dizzying implications. From this ambitious presentation, which occupies every nook and cranny of the art center’s two floors (including the staircases), one emerges both enlightened and concerned.

The four curators, led by Antonio Somaini, professor of film, media, and visual culture theory at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, have put together a fascinating but dense and challenging journey around the machines’ rapid learning capabilities, now capable of performing tasks previously considered uniquely human: perception, recognition, decision-making, creation of images or texts. The winding scenography, with a great deal of text and rich but not always easy-to-read displays, requires a lot of time, and it is better to be English-speaking to fully appreciate it.

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