Intelligent floating machines inspired by nature

The In Love With The World 2021 exhibition catalog features a captivating short story by Elvia Wilk that reimagines facets of the endeavor in a speculative future space, as well as remarkable photographs by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas. Made in close collaboration with the artist, and including a survey of previous work, this unique publication provides a genuine insight into Yi's past and present creative production.

Published in conjunction with her survey exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Metaspore is the most extended monograph ever dedicated to Anicka Yi. The volume presents critical essays by art historian Giovanni Aloi and professor of English literature and gender studies Rachel Lee; a conversation between Anicka Yi and biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake; and two contributions by the exhibition curators. Also included is a glossary of Yi's most significant fictional, scientific and philosophical references.

In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, editor John Brockman gathers a small but influential community of thinkers to share their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us.

This essay brings Indigenous epistemologies to bear on the "AI question" and asks how machines might exist in kinship with humans. The authors argue that Indigenous epistemologies are better equipped to respectfully accommodate the non-humans who share our world.

The Atlas of Anomalous AI maps our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas approaches concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalizing perspective.

In this talk by art historian Caroline A. Jones, given as part of MIT's Possible Minds Conference, Jones questions the common notion that the brain is the major intelligence center of the body. Referencing the gut-brain axis and the immune system, Jones presents ideas of non-conscious and distributed intelligence that may exist in the body outside of the central nervous system.

In this essay, part of the Ethics, Computing and AI series at MIT, Caroline A. Jones warns against using sophisticated computation as a metaphor for intelligence. She argues that our current technologies do not come close to encompassing the full complexity of fluid, distributed and symbiotic intelligence systems that we observe in our own bodies and the environment.