London Design Biennale
Ai-Da Robot, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, is making history as the first humanoid robot to show her designs for our home interiors, foreshadowing the disruptions AI is bringing to our daily lives and societies. As some advanced AI is now able to assume and anticipate the states of the human mind (Theory of Mind), Ai-Da’s design questions the role of AI in our interior spaces – of our minds and our homes.
Ai-Da is exhibiting her designs for our homes at the London Design Biennale, at Somerset House, London. Come and see her exhibition, titled ‘AI Mind Home’, from 1st June - 25th June 2023.
An artist-in-residence at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, Ai-Da was influenced by modernist design, including Bauhaus, the Omega Workshop and the Leach Pottery. Modernism was also developed in a period of social upheaval.
On closer inspection of Ai-Da’s household designs, it emerges that the items are flawed to a degree that renders them useless. This unexpected failure of utility makes an oblique comment on the unexpected discovery that advanced AI (GPT 3.5 and 4) is able to assume and anticipate human thoughts and subjective experiences. This quality of higher intelligence was not programmed for but has nevertheless emerged (Kosinski 2023). Such profound yet unintended outcomes demonstrates why Ai-Da and her design is important, as she encourages us to challenge and question how we design our futures.
Ai-Da’s designs on display at the London Design Biennale, Somerset House