They are "vehicles," a series of hypothetical, self-operating machines that exhibit increasingly intricate if not always successful or civilized "behavior." Each of the vehicles in the series incorporates the essential features of all the earlier models and along the way they come to embody aggression, love, logic, manifestations of foresight, concept formation, creative thinking, personality, and free will.
- publisher's synopsis on <Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology> by Valentino Braitenberg
During the conception of「NOAA」, I was tasked to propose a view on the future of AI and automobiles. Yet, I found a deeper connection with my old friends: NOAA weather satellites from the early 2000s. Twenty years after being decommissioned, they still repeat their orbital journeys day after day.
How are they certain, from one image to another, this is the world? Does the turmoil on this planet sadden them?
在他們眼裡,這個星球是怎樣的?憑藉這些圖像,ta如何確信這就是世界?他們在等待一個聽眾嗎?他們會因這星球的紛擾而憂心嗎?