Re: [NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

2018-04-20 Thread AGF poemproducer
> On 20 Apr 2018, at 03:59, Rob Myers wrote: >> Could he imagine an AI that would produce a mutualist anarchist >> revolution?.. and if so, please he could start work on it immediately to teach AI to reward kindness for example would be amazing ___ N

Re: [NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

2018-04-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, at 2:08 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > I'd like to know what, if any, thought is given to the politics of AIs> or > to put it another way, what subjectivities are they attempting to > produce in their users?> > Could he imagine an AI that would produce a mutualist anarchist > r

Re: [NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

2018-04-19 Thread ruth catlow
I'd like to know what, if any, thought is given to the politics of AIs or to put it another way, what subjectivities are they attempting to produce in their users? Could he imagine an AI that would produce a mutualist anarchist revolution?.. and if so, please he could start work on it immediat

Re: [NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

2018-04-18 Thread Tom Keene
I'd be interested to know his thinking changed before, during, and after creating Alexia.Or to put it another way, what does he know now that he didn't before, and how might he approach the project differently now he is armed with this new knowledge?Tom TOM KEENE: Artist/Activist/Researcher Sav

Re: [NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

2018-04-18 Thread Gretta Louw via NetBehaviour
Hi Katriona, This sounds great!! Would love you to enquire about his thoughts on the identity politics of electronic assistants and the need (??) to give them such normative human persona and, particularly, why he thinks so many of them are given female identities. Good luck! g.x > On 18.

[NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

2018-04-18 Thread Katriona Beales
Dear Net Behaviour crew, I've been chatting to William Tunstall-Pedoe who's an artificial intelligence expert and also the person who invented Evi - which became Amazon Alexa. I'm properly interviewing him later this week as part of a new work I'm making for the V&A. I'