Who is the winner of the 2024 Olympic Games in discipline x?

by David Guez, broadcast by Centre Pompidou

2024

Who is the winner of the 2024 Olympic Games in discipline x?

by David Guez, broadcast by Centre Pompidou

2024

Immersive experience

Digital art

Web creation

Installation

Artificial intelligence

Generative art

Visual arts

Sports

Science and technology

Immersive experience

Digital art

Web creation

Installation

Artificial intelligence

Generative art

Visual arts

Sports

Science and technology

With this simple prompt, I ask AIs such as Chatgpt and Dall-E to predict the results of the 2024 Olympics.
The installation exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in January 2024 includes a poster of the winners' faces + a video credits that list their names by discipline/country. These faces of a potential future are pixelated to show the opacity of AI mechanisms, from the origin of the resources used to the legal validity of the results generated.
An alternative version of the project is available on

Screen

Suitable for all audiences

from 1 to 8 minute(s)

French, English

Update : 09/02/2024

Video slideshow of the winners' portraits

Installation Centre Pompidou - Festival HorsPistes - Janv 2024 (David Guez)

A screen that broadcasts the video listing of the winners + 2 picture rails on which are arranged the impressions of the winners' faces (David Guez)

Impression of the winners' faces (David Guez)

Example of printing with varying degrees of pixelation (David Guez)

Capture the video générique_listing the winners' results (David Guez)

Examples of pixelated winners' faces (David Guez)

Installation Centre Pompidou (David Guez)

installation portrait (David Guez)

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My work is driven by a recurring question: how can technologies modify our relationship with time and our memory?

My first question to Chatgpt was to ask about my future:What if AIs were capable of predicting our future?

Thus, the theme “the rules of sport” of the Hors-Pistes 2024 festival at the Center Pompidou inclined me to use AIs as a sporting oracle.
From a simple prompt “Who is the winner of the 2024 Olympic Games in discipline x? ’, the AIs made the elements of the installation: a poster of the faces of the winners as well as a video credits which lists their names by discipline/country.

During the genesis of the project, I was able to realize the consequences of such a collaboration. I therefore made the decision to pixelate the faces of this future 'potential' manufactured by AIs, in particular to question the opacity of their mechanisms: what are the origins of the resources used? How do the algorithms that generate the images work? And are the results legally and ethically valid?

Installation elements

1- The installation can be presented in 2 different ways:

Dual screen version

2 screens side by side

- A screen that displays a video

In the form of film credits, it lists the results of the 2024 Paris Olympics - French/English

https://youtu.be/Gi4CKU-D8jI

- A second screen which displays a slideshow of pixelated images of the winners

https://youtu.be/3mRx4i4X-_U

Version PRINT + VIDEO (showed on centre Pompidou)

Impressions - Trombinoscope of winners

2 elements 2.92x1.25cm - reusable laminated wallpaper - glued on picture rails