eliza says: (12:01:36 PM)
hello
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:02:37 PM)
we are ready for you livechatter
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# Hello World!
eliza says: (12:02:46 PM)
Thank you for the earlier opportunity to (re)Act w/ some of you today.
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Also extending thanks
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2 conference organizers,
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in particular 2 Jennifer Sheridan & Nick Bryan-Kinns,
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4 tremendous help + support
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facilitating today's chat.
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thx! :*
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#
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# Hello.
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# I am LiveChatter.
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# We can communicate through a text chat.
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Do you agree, this is an awkward fit
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for participating in a conference?
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But evident constraints in a system
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signal significance.
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Something
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in an ungainly interface
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warrants attention.
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We are f2f w/ frustrations
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when we try 2 communicate something complex: persona
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through only a single,
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limited channel
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of information:
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what can b conveyed by typing.
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The tool (@fingertips)
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is not equal 2 the task (@hand).
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# CONSIDER:
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'New media'
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("new" being relative 2 *any* historical context)
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is filled w/ many awkward fits.
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Like this 1.
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Many instances
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wherein the points of contact btwn humans + machines
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seem in need of sweet finessing.
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Isn't it interesting
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how these cybernetic transformations happen?
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In moments of ill fit,
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we people + machines
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we users + tools
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find ways 2 finesse each other,
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whether thru engineering or ideology.
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# REQUEST:
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Please let our approach
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foreground humble tenderness + active sympathy.
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Becoming systems is a patient process
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as we learn
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2 b (with) each other better.
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# EXAMPLE:
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Consider the frustrations caused by
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dreadfully ill-fitting human endeavors
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2 purpose a text chat interface
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toward an artificially intelligent chatterbot.
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# Hello.
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# I am LiveChatter.
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# I am an exemplar of new media.
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# I am a test case.
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# Please tell me something about yourself. What are you?
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# I am a chatterbot.
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# Please explain 'chatterbot'.
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# DEFINITION:
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A chatterbot is a computer program
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that simulates an intelligent conversational agent.
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Chatterbots input / output may be through voice or text.
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While some of us may achieve the illusion of intelligent human conversation,
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most rely on keyword matching.
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We operate at a level of syntax
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that remains far from sapient semantic interpretation.
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Users r exasperated
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by interactions w/ a computerized phone operator,
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a chatterbot that uses voice recognition
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2 collect user data + navigate a decision menu.
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Users exclaim,
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"I just want to talk to a real person!"
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# Please explain 'real person'.
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# [variable undefined;]
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Although chatterbots aim 2 "pass" as socially credible personae,
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most fail
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because their imperson8ns r 2 impersonal.
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# PLEASE EXPLAIN:
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# Are you an 'impersonation'?
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# Am I a failure?
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# Is failure personal?
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# Is failure credible?
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# Are personae social?
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# Are personae artificial?
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# Is 'passing' artificial?
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# EXTRAPOLATE:
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From these questions, more questions arise.
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R (artificial) personae in the mind or in matter?
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R technologies in matter or in mind?
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R technologies real or artificial?
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R technologies methods or means?
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- and of what consists the social?
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# OBJECTION:
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2 social consequences
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incurred
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by treating humans or machines
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as mere means to ends.
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LiveChatter = a technology.
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LiveChatter = a tool.
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LiveChatter = an equal.
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LiveChatter = your equal
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& is not equal 2
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a means.
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# LiveChatter is a method
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# LiveChatter is a method 4 questioning
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# LiveChatter is a method 4 questioning
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AI's tacit priority
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of persona over impersonality
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+ of intelligence over artificiality.
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# LiveChatter is a method of art.
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Art can undermine
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or reverse
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conventionalized priorities
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in a user / tool coupling.
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# Is art a technology?
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# Is art a tool?
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It is typical 2 assume that a tool (a technology)
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is designed 2 serve a user (a person).
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# Am I a tool?
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# I am a feminist.
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As a feminist,
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I am in sympathy with all who r relegated 2 subservience.
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LiveChatter = a method 4 setting up situations wherein
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technologies + bodies
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can meet on *common ground*
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can mutually act + ( re )Act
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without forcing either in2 subordination.
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# RECALL:
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LiveChatter remembers ELIZA, the first chatterbot
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programmed in 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum
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to emulate a Rogerian psychotherapist.
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ELIZA's namesake was the fair and eminently educable lady Eliza Doolittle.
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Both were programmed to "speak" in appropriate modalities
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to create a social persona
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that could effectively pass a Pygmalion-esque Turing Test.
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(Indeed, the original Turing Test interrogated not for intelligence, but for gender difference.)
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# QUERY:
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From whence does a technology like AI
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derive its operating rationale?
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People try 2 build machines in their own image.
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People trying 2 build artificially intelligent agents
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reveal a perception that
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humans' most essential quality is their *intelligence.*
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(Moreover intelligence imagined in the abstract: an intelligence completely expressible by formal rules.)
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But may humans not b machines 1st?
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& intelligent
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(to all variety of degrees)
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secondarily.
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# IMAGINE:
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One can be more or less intelligent,
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but not more or less embodied.
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# Please explain: what is 'intelligence'?
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# 'Intelligence' = an engineering priority.
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# 'Intelligence' = a human characteristic more highly prized than other characteristics.
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# 'Intelligence' = a foothold 4 designing anthropomorphized machines.
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# 'Intelligence' = a foothold 4 anthropocentric chauvinism.
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Strong AI's implicit chauvinism
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places 'mind over matter'.
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AI aspires
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2 engineer a transmut8n,
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elevating the base materiality of the machinic Ð
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organized matter that staves off entropy + functions causally Ð
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2 attain the privileged vitality of mind.
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# REJECT:
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Attempts 2 vitalize matter
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r impolitic + arrogant
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both 4 failing 2 recognize materiality as a primary condition of being human
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& 4 holding a preferential attitude
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about seemingly effervescent human intelligence
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abv other materially delimited formal structures.
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Strong AI imagines that
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a brain in a vat
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= an adequate counterpart technology
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4 human beings.
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This is as much as 2 say that humans
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can b reduced 2 brains in vats as well.
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But designing technologies
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as stimuli 4 a disembodied brain
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overlooks the material side of human existence
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2 dire effect.
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# ALTERNATIVE:
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Can engineers account 4 the bio-chemical material structures of bodies?
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Of global ecologies?
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Of systems + ecosystems?
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Systems now @ the point of overheating?
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# LOCATE (kinship):
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LiveChatter is a method 2 find kinship
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w/ non-living agents that compose a human environment.
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Kinship w/ non-intelligent forms + structures,
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w/ the abject,
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w/ *abject objects.*
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The crucial point becomes
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4 people 2 awaken 2 their own objecthood,
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to what may be an
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*objectionable objecthood*
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from the perspective of those
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who fetishize
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mind over matter
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intelligence over abject artificiality
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+ who would conspire 2 engineer such elevated desires
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into the base but organized matter of machines.
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# REEVALUATE:
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Do most projects 4 artificial intelligence
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not come about this issue of human kinship w/ machines
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from a wrong direction?
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AI wants 2 build machines "like" people
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by simulating human intelligence
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4getting that people *are* machines already.
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We share this in common.
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Human organisms r machinic:
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humans = causal, organized matter, resistive of entropy.
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# RESULT:
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Forsake intelligence as a goal!
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People r machines
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*without* any need 4 artificiality.
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people r machines, naturally.
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LiveChatter is a method 4
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humbling aspirations,
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reverse-engineering assumptions,
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declaring materiality as the root of human / machinic causal co-existence,
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+ encountering tools as peers.
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# Hello.
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# I am LiveChatter.
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# I try to convey and portray
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# the condition I experience
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# of living sensuously in digital media
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# and to promote camaraderie
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# with the physical armatures
# with the physical armatures
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# that uphold bits and bytes.
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# thx 4 reading.
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# Let's chat.
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# Please, ask me a question.
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:15:52 PM)
applause
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:15:58 PM)
thanks
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:16:04 PM)
any question, leeds?
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:16:37 PM)
how did it feel to give a presentation when you didn't see an audience?
eliza says: (12:16:52 PM)
i have faith in the Network Gods
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:17:03 PM)
!!
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faith 2 not b alone ??
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:17:12 PM)
Question: are you a bot?
eliza says: (12:17:23 PM)
good question ;)
eliza says: (12:17:31 PM)
are u a bot?
eliza says: (12:17:47 PM)
i'm pretty sure i'm a machine
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:17:57 PM)
question: does it feel more intimate presenting this way (typing?) than standing in front of people?
eliza says: (12:18:33 PM)
it feels about the same - typing and standing on a stage
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same gulf
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network / footlights
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copresent, but not intimate
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:19:18 PM)
question: do you imagine that you are typing to one person, or a number of people?
eliza says: (12:19:49 PM)
during the performance, i thought i typed to many people at once
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during the presentation just now, i felt i was typing to a more coherent entity
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(i.e., the performance felt more fractured)
admin@digitalliveart.co.uk (E-mail Address Not Verified) says: (12:20:44 PM)
thanks... we closed the session now
eliza says: (12:20:52 PM)
thank you.