At Davos, an art installation looks to bring people closer to nature with a little help from AI
DAVOS, Switzerland — Artificial intelligence is the talk of this year’s World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of global elites, and an art installation here makes the case that it could be the key to understanding our world.
DAVOS, Switzerland — Artificial intelligence is the talk of this year’s World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of global elites, and an art installation here makes the case that it could be the key to understanding our world.
“Living Archive: Nature” sits in the forum’s main hallway, a multisensory experience, combining visual, sound and scent elements of different ecosystems created by a generative AI program and based on data from the natural world.
The installation is the creation of Refik Anadol, a Turkish-born, Los Angeles-based media artist, who said the piece is meant to move AI beyond its human-based training to bring people closer to nature and bring urgency to the need to protect it.
“We are hoping to inspire an immediate and urgent need to preserve nature,” he said. “We all are so distant from nature. Our goal is to make people love and respect nature through AI, and appreciate the intelligence of nature in order to fight for its preservation. The time is now for action. We have no more time to wait.”
The emergence of Generative AI — automated systems that can produce media including writing, photos and videos based on voice prompts — has fueled a wave of optimism and fear about what the next generation of advanced computer systems may be capable of.
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