485: Conversation Is a Kind of Music
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485: Conversation Is a Kind of Music

Alan Blackwell spoke with us about the lurking dangers of large language models, the magical nature of artificial intelligence, and the future of interacting with computers.

Alan is the author of Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI which you can read in its pre-book form here: https://moralcodes.pubpub.org/

Alan's day job is as a Professor of Interdisciplinary Design in the Cambridge University department of Computer Science and Technology. See his research interests on his Cambridge University page.

(Also, given as homework in the newsletter, we didn't directly discuss Jo Walton's 'A Brief Backward History of Automated Eloquence', a playful history of automated text generation, written from a perspective in the year 2070.)

Transcript

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39: I Blame Space

39: I Blame Space

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38: Blame the Monkey

38: Blame the Monkey

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12 Helmi 20141h 1min

37: Surf's Up

37: Surf's Up

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36: Drive the Boat with a Wii Mote

36: Drive the Boat with a Wii Mote

Elecia gushes about her favorite logic (and protocol) analyzer to Saleae co-founder Mark Garrison. They also discuss start-ups, manufacturing, and covering yourself with rum and pretending to be a pir...

22 Tammi 201452min

35: All These Different Reasons Why You Might Want to Do Something

35: All These Different Reasons Why You Might Want to Do Something

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15 Tammi 201456min

34: Really Big Cabbage

34: Really Big Cabbage

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9 Tammi 20140s

33: Quitting My Finnish Lessons

33: Quitting My Finnish Lessons

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2 Tammi 201455min

32: Woo Woo Woo

32: Woo Woo Woo

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24 Joulu 201341min

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