Ep 7: Agent Marcus Endicott - Being Virtual in a Material World

You may know virtual bots like "Siri" or "Alexa", and you may have chatted to a bot to order a pizza, but virtual beings take these foundations to the next level. Even now we imagine personalities for our virtual assistants which amount to lines of code; we give them pronouns and ask them if they love us (just for a joke). But what happens when there is a reality like that depicted in the Hollywood films “Her”, or in "Bladerunner 2049"? Virtual assistants and chatbots have integrated into our lives without much fuss, but what about the more complex 'beings' that are being developed in virtual reality? Will these be accepted so easily? What could we use them to do if they are? Agent Marcus Endicott joins the art intelligent agency to answer these questions and discuss his foundational work in the field.

You can find more of Marcus' work and follow his moderated community on Facebook.

This Podcast was Produced by Tim Whiffen of Whimsy Productions in Association with Art Intelligence Agency, the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, and Sia Furler Institute of the University of Adelaide.

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