Le Cube Garges Exhibition: Other voices · language · code · translation

On November 30, 2022, the release of GPT-3.5 made a turning point already underway visible. Within a few months, artificial intelligences (AI), and in particular conversational agents, became accessible to the general public. Highly versatile, they simulate language and can generate text, translate, answer our questions, and sometimes produce convincing errors, known as “hallucinations”. Little by little, these tools are influencing our ways of writing, searching for information, and learning.

Today, these models are integrated into everyday objects and services. A new stage is emerging: that of an environment where interfaces are becoming conversational, where certain objects seem to “speak” to us. Another way of inhabiting the world, which opens up as many possibilities as it does questions.

In this exhibition, you set out to encounter multiple languages. Those we have created, such as computer code, through to esoteric programming languages designed to play with codes, or the various ways of training AI to produce language. Those of the living world, such as birdsong or bee dances, which science and technology attempt to analyze by modeling their signals. And those that we invent collectively, the forms of expression born from the internet — memes, emojis, Italian brainrot, the elements of a constantly evolving visual culture.

This exhibition sets the tone for the season, in a pedagogical and interactive way. A tour is specially designed for children and families, with simple keys to explore while having fun. The exhibition is free and accessible to all. An invitation to listen to the world around us in a different way.