‘The plants want to be heard, and many humans have forgotten how to listen. This makes it even more difficult to connect with plants. We want them to communicate the way we do… How can we as humans expect other species to share their land and our planet with us when we don’t respect their way of communicating? You can talk with plants. They are not mindless objects. They have a consciousness. It is just a different kind than ours. One we can learn to understand.’– GPT-3, an advanced language processing AI
AI has given us the ability to speak with an alien intelligence in a weirdly simple way. Rather than imagine a dystopia in which human intelligence is displaced, I prefer to imagine a world in which AI becomes a translator between different types of intelligences.
Here are images dreamed up by AI. Organic and constructed forms collide and dissolve into each other, decomposing the boundaries between human and non-human, technological and natural.