Memesis - Oracle of the anthropocene

– Ars Electronica 2023. Who Owns the Truth? – Wem gehört die Wahrheit?, POSTCITY Linz (Veranstaltungsort)

Memesis – Oracle of the anthropocene
Are we already enough machine to deal with artificial intelligence?

MEMESIS refers to the pillars of robotics (Asimovs Robotic Laws), information theory (Claude Shannons “useless machine”) and cybernetics (Turing-Test): In hyper-communication with the machine, humans recognizes that their insight is limited, so that the machine seems to have a life of its own. In the discrete therapeutic situation of MEMESIS, illusion and reality collide.

Memesis is an oracle in the age of automation. Memesis simulates the topic of AI and provokes by means of a reverse Turing test: Are we already enough machine to deal with artificial intelligence?

When you enter Memesis and switch on the “useless machine,” you come into contact with the Oracle. The oracle is strange and speaks in the almost extinct language of the Pirahã, which works without recursion and thus seems to contradict universal grammar: this voice indicates the current state of the machine. The oracle answers with an intelligence without number and time.

[Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20250911124936/https://negentropy-sport.net/2023/08/06/memesis/]

Simone Boria, Pamela Neuwirth, Harald Purrer