Post #22 — Lecture — Bio Art and Artificial Intellegence.

Bio-art is an art form that utilizes natural bacteria to create a photograph of something. Strangely enough, as disgusted as this sounds, it actually works to an interesting degree: scientists take collections of bacteria, thin and careful tools, and then use those tools to paint thin layers of bacteria. These layers are later stored in warm rooms to preserve their image, kind of like how a student can tell a story to keep their public image in check, now that I think about it. Artificial Intelligence is another story that I find far more interesting, though. Programmable code that can hear a person's voice and respond as if they were a sentient being? Yes, please! But, at the same time, it is rather intimidating to think that they could take over the world if we make them smart enough to do so, thinking we can just "play God" and not expect anything bad to come of it. Sophia the Robot, for instance, is an extremely complicated AI who acts and speaks as human as she is programmed, which is not too far off from actual human movement and thought, which is rather spooky, if you ask me.

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