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Hi. I'm Refik. I'm a media artist.
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I use data as a pigment
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and paint with a thinking brush
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that is assisted
by artificial intelligence.
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Using architectural spaces as canvases,
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I collaborate with machines
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to make buildings dream and hallucinate.
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You may be wondering,
what does all this mean?
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So let me please take you
into my work and my world.
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I witnessed the power of imagination
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when I was eight years old
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as a child growing up in Istanbul.
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One day, my mom brought home
a videocassette
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of the science fiction movie
"Blade Runner."
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I clearly remember being mesmerized
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by the stunning architectural vision
of the future of Los Angeles,
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a place that I had never seen before.
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That vision became a kind of a staple
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of my daydreams.
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When I arrived in LA in 2012
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for a graduate program
in design media arts,
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I rented a car and drove downtown
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to see that wonderful world
of the near future.
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I remember a specific line
that kept playing
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over and over in my head:
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the scene where the android Rachael
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realizes that her memories
are actually not hers,
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and when Deckard tells her
they are someone else's memories.
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Since that moment,
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one of my inspirations
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has been this question.
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What can a mission do
with someone else's memories?
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Or, to say that in another way,
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what does it mean to be an AI
in the 21st century?
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Any android or AI mission
is only intelligent
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as long as we collaborate with it.
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It can construct things
that human intelligence
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intends to produce,
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but does not have the capacity to do so.
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Think about your activities
and social networks.
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For example, they get smarter
the more you interact with them.
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If machines can learn or process memories,
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can they also dream?
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Hallucinate?
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Involuntarily remember,
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or make connections
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between multiple people streams?
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Does being an AI in the 21st century
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simply mean not forgetting anything?