SYNOPSIS

What is it like to navigate our world as an artificially intelligent robot? What is there to learn about homo sapiens in order to become as “human” as possible? Three pairs of robots take us through their learning process. They track, analyse and draw information by watching people in different life situations. But their algorithmic vision comes in contrast with a meditative, rather poetic dialogue in which they deconstruct and reassemble the definition of humanity as we know it.

INTENTION

We are so used to talking about artificial intelligence. We look at its huge benefits — like helping us to live longer — or its dangers, like leading us to extinction. It is always us talking about them. But what if we adopt their perspective? What would robots have to say about us? In 3 Dialogues About the Future, I invite AIs to have conversations about our complicated humanity, with its marvels and contradictions. Echoing the Socratic idea that “we cannot learn something until we have a dialogue about it”, the film becomes an exercise of empathy for the machines who are learning about us.

Technology was present in my life from an early age. My parents are both computer scientists, so I had birthday parties in a computer lab and I wrote e-mails to Santa Claus… All this pushed me away from technology in my adult life and in my artistic practice. But through this film, my curiosity for machines revives. As I am exploring the poetics of the digital minds, I am also recovering a distance that seemed infinite: between art and science, between my family and I.