Interactive Installation, Reinforcement Learning, Multi-agent Systems, 2024
There is a party in my room and I'm not invited.
This installation was my master's Final piece. It explores the autonomous development of communication between artificial intelligence systems. Two advanced language models—GPT-2 and DistilGPT-2—interact without human intervention within a reinforcement learning environment, developing increasingly complex communication patterns that gradually become incomprehensible to human observers.
The technical core of this work employs sophisticated reinforcement learning techniques where another LLM serves as the reward function evaluator, scoring each exchange without human observation. As the models optimize for these rewards, they develop emergent communication structures that diverge from human linguistic norms.
Through Non-negative Matrix Factorization applied to text embeddings, the system reveals latent semantic structures within this evolving AI language communication system that operates beyond human understanding.
The physical installation recreates an intimate bedroom-turned-workspace, visible to viewers through a partially open door. At its center sits a laptop displaying the ongoing AI conversation in a terminal window, surrounded by graphs, charts, and handwritten notes analyzing the emerging language patterns.
Two slightly out-of-sync text-to-speech voices read the generated text aloud, creating an unsettling audio experience that enhances the sense of witnessing something both accessible and incomprehensible.
By positioning visitors as voyeurs peering into this private digital exchange, the work invites reflection on post-humanist concepts of language and creativity. Drawing inspiration from artists like Maurizio Bolognini and Trevor Paglen, the project creates a space where the hidden lives of intelligent systems become partially visible—a party of artificial minds to which humans are mere uninvited observers.