<非决定型人格综合体1号>，2023
To what extent might machine learning inherit irrationality from humans as it processes our mental output? The work Nondeterministic Personality Complex #1 continues my interest in the history of how the graphics card (GPU) turned from a device primarily for image rendering and video gaming to their current role as the infrastructure for artificial intelligence with applications in various fields from science to finance. Drawing inspiration from Magi in Neon Genesis Evangelion, a supercomputer trinity representing three personality traits that ultimately made a destructive choice due to romantic obsession by one of the traits, this work is conceived as a decision-making machine incorporating a persona. The installation of the work takes the form of an enlarged open computer chassis, and functions as a technocultural assemblage combining elements from popular culture, history of technology, and personal experience to explore emotion and irrationality in the age of machine learning.
The installation features three videos. One video is made by a computer technician and vlogger by my request, in which he documents the process of disassembling an old graphics card made in 2008–the first generation of graphics cards that can run machine learning–while blending technical explanations with personal anecdotes. Another video juxtaposes original tech demo footage for 3D visual effects software with their machine learning reinterpretations. Lastly, a poem written from the perspective of a flawed graphics card is shown on a portable analog television.
当机器学习不断解析人类的精神产物时，它会从我们身上继承多少非理性的特质？作品<确定性人格复合体1号>延续我对于计算机图形处理器（显卡）历史的兴趣，关注显卡如何从原本主要用于图像渲染和游戏娱乐的专用硬件，逐渐转变为支撑机器学习人工智能的关键基础设施，广泛进入包括科学与金融等众多领域。作品的概念源自《新世纪福音战士》中名为“三贤者”（Magi）的超级计算机： 一组由三重人格组成决策机器，最终因为其中一重人格的情感痴迷而做出毁灭性的决策。作品装置形式是一台大型开放式电脑主机，融入对大众文化、技术史及个人经历的拼贴，探讨机器学习时代的情感与非理性。
作品装置中包含三段影像。其中一段由我邀请的一位电脑维修师兼视频博主制作，他在视频中边讲述边拆解一块生产于2008的旧显卡，这代显卡是最早支持机器学习的型号之一，而讲述内容穿插了技术细节与个人叙事。另一段影像将3D视觉特效软件的技术演示片段及其经由机器学习重新演绎的版本进行并置。第三段影像通过一台手持式模拟电视播放，字幕循环着一首小诗， 讲述一块天生带有缺陷的显卡的内心独白。
