Lexicon

Abject
Accretion
Actant
Aeration
Aerobic
Algae-boosted
Animal
Anthropomorphism
Anti-Continuous Construction
Apocalypse
Aquaculture
Aquanaut
Ark
Artificial Intelligence
Autopoiesis
Assemblages
Asymmetry
Atrophy
Attraction
Autarchy
Automata
Automation
Autosymbiosis
Bambassador
Bathyscaphe
Bioconurbation
Biomedia
Bionics
Biosphere
Biotechnique
By-product
Capacity
Actant
Coisolation
Composting
Conservative Surgery
Consumer Envelope
Consumption
Continuous Construction
Conurbation
Correalism
Cultural_Memory
Cybernetics
Cybertecture
Cyborg
Dispositif
Diving Saucer
Dross
Earthship
Ecocatastrophe
Effluvium
Egosphere
End-use
Entanglement
Eutopia
Feedback
Foam
Folk
Gadget
Garbage House
Green Cyborg
Heuristic
Hoard
Holism
Homogenization of Desire
Hostile
Human Affect
Hybridized Folk
Hydroponic
Hyper-Materialism
Information Economy
Inner Space
Interama
Intra-Uterine
Maque
Megalopolis
Min-use
Mobility
Monorail
Multi-Hinge
Non-Design
Oceanaut
Oppositional Consciousness
Organic
Ouroboros
Panarchy
Parasite
Perceived Continuation
Permanence
Place
Prototype
Post-Animal
Reclamation
RI: Data Farms
RI: Garbage and Animals
RI:Shipbreaking
RI: Toxic Sublime
Sampling
Scale
Sensing Structure
Simulacrum
Simulation
Soft Energy
Spaceship Earth
Submersible
Superwindow
Symbiosis
Synthetic Environment
Technocratic
Technological Heredity
Technological Sublime
Telechirics
The Sublime
Thermal Panel
Actant
Thing-Power
Thinking Machines
Tool
Toxic Withdrawal
Turbulence
UV-Transparent Film
Vibrant Matter
Waste
Work

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

AI (n.) AI, Artificial Intelligence, is a term to describe a computer or computer software capable of intelligent behavior. The difference between a computer and an AI is that a computer execute the actions that are directly inputted into them while an AI has the initial input and then determines on its own how and what to do. There are many that say artificial intelligence will never surpass human intellect because of its unavailability to perceive background information. 1 An AI does not have eyes, ears or skin to gather data, therefore depends on the programmer to input the data or to have an apparatus to gather the data for it. The true limitations of the AI is dependant on the human who sets the program for the AI. If an AI is programmed to do something precise, it is the programmers’ responsibility to account for the margin of error. In project Seek, AI is used in a very rudimentary way. The sole purpose of the AI was to move cubes within a box to a designated location based on an algorithm, while gerbils run through the box. 2 The AI was attached to a motorized block with a pressure sensor to gather data on how the gerbils interacted with the cubes and move them to further interact with the gerbils. 3

1. Stephen Wilson, “Computer Art: Artificial Intelligence and the Arts,” in Leonardo, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1983) 17.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.