On 30 November 2022, the release of GPT-3.5 made visible a turning point that was already underway. 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, called "hallucinations". Little by little, these tools are influencing our ways of writing, searching for information and learning.
Today, these models are being integrated into everyday objects and services. A new stage is taking shape: that of an environment where interfaces become conversational, where certain objects seem to "speak" to us. Another way of inhabiting the world, which opens up as many possibilities as 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 different ways of training AIs to produce language. Those of the living world, such as birdsong or the dances of bees, which science and technology attempt to analyse by modelling their signals. And those we invent collectively, the forms of expression born on the internet — memes, emojis, italian brainrots, the elements of a constantly evolving visual culture.
This exhibition sets the tone for the season, in an educational and interactive way. A route 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 differently.