GAME

AI/VI is a pilot game and a project of interdisciplinary nature that explores artificial intelligence and its multilayered convergence with the current ways of the world - our world, as we tend to think. Created as a pervasive mobile game it encourages its users - gamers - to reflect on key dilemmas in opportunistic and altruistic applications of technology in everyday life. It has several key educational aspects, one of them being a library of hyperlinks that players collect during the game. It is a selection of ever-growing and steadily changing clusters of resources, composed to serve as an educational tool, equipping players with knowledge. Well, information aspiring to become knowledge, tailored according to the individual choices players made throughout the game.
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The game navigates players through various mapped locations in the center of Belgrade. Being more than simple points in the given reality of urban geography, these map-guided spaces anchor the metaphoric and the symbolic ways of the game. They problematize the dynamic relationships of the creator of AI - AI - user, their functions, and limitations, symbolic and functional potentials. The game aims to raise questions on how we understand and treat artificial intelligence; how we aspire to direct its development; how do we transform and reshape ourselves in the processes of creating and consuming it? In the continuous building and breaking down of relationships with manifestations of artificial intelligence, the player discovers that, although the system consists of a limited number of rules, the number of possible configurations is assumed to be unlimited. With all of the choices and decisions to be faced, a player determines, not only the identity, but also the reality in which it is actualized.

 

****The game is translated in English and can be played remotely. Since this is a location based game we advise to use the Google street navigation and start a virtual gameplay and get familiar with Belgrade as well.
 

AI/VI was created with the support of the Center for the Promotion of Science within the project European Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence funded through the EU program Creative Europe.