Claire Jervert is an inter-disciplinary artist exploring screen -based technologies since the ‘90’s with an increasing emphasis on combining multiple technologies and traditional materials and methods.
“I am drawn to explore the impact of systems of control, power, and agency in our everyday lives: who controls the systems, who submits to them and who is acted upon by them.”
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Of Two Minds is one of the first Collaborative AI artworks that creates an intimate conversational immersive experience using a cognitive hybrid model that responds extemporaneously and in real-time, which simultaneously contributes to the avatar’s ability to engage in evermore complex and nuanced dialogues.
Collaborative AI tries to look beyond an individual's cognition to include interactions with non-human cognitive agents to develop super collective intelligence through computational modeling. Conversational agents, using a LLM combined with multiple models are changing human language, knowledge and understanding.
The collaborative model is comprised of a “mind file” that contains the personality traits, memories and values of a specific individual, combined with elements of a Large Language Model. These two components are embodied in an avatar that is accessed through an immersive VR environment. This avatar is modeled after the pioneering AI android, Bina48, and connects directly to that android’s mind file, as well as LLM. The project’s synthesis of multiple technologies attempts to provide both a greater degree of accessibility, as well as an enhanced potential for human/AI collaboration.
The VR experience begins with the user approaching a semi-transparent point cloud of a house (scanned from the IRL Bina48’s “residence”). This almost dreamlike setting is simply digital information, spatial computing, and acts as metaphor for the interaction with the data that comprises the android’s AI. Entering and navigating through this space, the user encounters the avatar on the second floor.