This artwork is best experienced full screen on laptop/desktop using Chrome: https://www.fahadkarim.com/spaghetty

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The last few years have seen a mainstream explosion of AI, from text-to-image generators to open-ended multimodal conversations with machines. How did we get here and what does the future look like?

These questions were the basis for ‘Would you like some assistance today?’ - a highly interactive browser-based artwork by Fahad Karim that takes viewers on a journey of examining their relationship with AI. The story is told through a collaborative generative art experience in which a character named Spaghetty assists you in creating art.

The aesthetics, dialogue, and mannerisms of Spaghetty may feel nostalgic - they are directly inspired by Microsoft’s Clippy, one of the first, most memorable, and most famously annoying ‘productivity assistants’ of tech history. For those who persevere, the conversation with Spaghetty can take some unexpected turns - progressing from the basics of generative art (composition, color palettes, the infinite space of randomness) to more philosophical and controversial topics suddenly relevant in our race to outdo each other’s AIs and achieve artificial general intelligence (or, you know, the technological singularity).