Yet this fetishization of AI proves misguided in the long term. Unsupervised’s summary aesthetic ends up divorcing this technology from the intelligible area of human affairs— obscuring the advanced and real methods in which these machines are formed by, and in flip shape, the world around us. Anadol performs precisely into this mix of wonder and worry by articulating a dramatic vision of a machine intelligence that exceeds our comprehension. Its grandiose scale and abstracted visual kind positions this intelligence as nothing short of a technological sublime looming over us, a deistic thoughts defying our understanding. There is, as Ben Davis wrote in a January review for Artnet, a “generalized awe on the machine’s superhuman capability of visual analysis” that drives the piece, a vision of AI as an unfathomable transcendent Other.
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