“I’m talking about a human with a real heartbeat, or a machine that relies on programming code.” In the artist’s first experiments with artificial intelligence, AI is like a parrot—capable of imitating form in vivid ways but lacking true understanding. However, it never ceases to learn and receive human training. Over time, it has reached a level of subtlety close to that of human expression. To extend the computational speed of the brain, human beings invented artificial intelligence. “Physiologically,” Marshall McLuhan writes in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, “the human body is constantly being modified by technology in the normal use of technology, or the many extensions of the human body.” On the other hand, people are constantly searching for new ways to modify their own technology, and in this process, human subjectivity is constantly being alienated. In the evolution of artificial intelligence, will it eventually approach, or even surpass, human capabilities? The emergence of AI has triggered unprecedented human anxiety—when artificial intelligence has a “heartbeat,” how will AI and humans coexist?

It never grew up, but it never stopped growing.