Alien Intelligence By Neil Leach: Reflection

In summary, Neil Leach’s lecture at thE FIU School of Architecture mainly revolves around the topics of what is AI, the future of AI, AI image generation, and predictions around the future of AI and architecture. One key concept Leach continues to shed light on is how AI holds this “kind of” intelligence, and it really is not the same as human intelligence at all, but is superior to our capabilities. Leach also brings up how AI could be invisible, and really all around us but we tend to naturally associate AI to physical or tangible things. One thing that leach brings up that I was thinking about before watching the lecture is how terrifying AI can be. Not because it possess capabilities to harm individuals or cause chaos, but more in the sense that it has overly fascinating and shocking capabilities, and I quote Leach’s words “Anything we can do, AI can do better”.

Coding Assignment: Description 

In this project I mainly use the Matter.js physics engine to create a program  where geometric shapes with random color. The main components consist of two classes: “Boundary” for creating static rectangular boundaries, and “CustomShape” for generating dynamic square objects with random attributes. The Matter.js engine mainly handles collisions and movements. The setup function initializes the canvas and Matter Engine, creating fixed boundaries within the canvas. The draw function continuously updates and displays the boundaries, shapes, and their interactions.

Beginning Sketches:

Final Program:

Reflections and Future improvements:

For this weeks coding assignment, I struggled a bit because I still find that the matter.js library and implementing it is new to me and I definitely need to practice and work on more programs utilizing it.

If I hopefully manage to improve my skills in using the library, since it can create very creative programs that are aesthetically pleasing, I plan to hopefully integrate it in my final project and see how it would work with other methods such as attraction, fleeing, seeking, etc.