[NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

Tom Keene tom at theanthillsocial.co.uk
Wed Apr 18 15:50:49 CEST 2018 

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



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On Wed, 18 Apr 2018, at 2:43 PM, Gretta Louw via NetBehaviour wrote:
> 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. Apr 2018, at 15:00, Katriona Beales
>> <info at katrionabeales.com> wrote:>> 
>> Dear Net Behaviour crew, 
>> 
>> I've been chatting to William Tunstall-Pedoe[1] 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've so many questions but
>> not a lot of expertise in this field & wanted to invite any questions
>> from this forum which I can feed into the interview. It'll be
>> published online & possibly in print later this year & while I can't
>> promise to incorporate all contributions any questions I do use I'll
>> credit accordingly.>> 
>> Hope all is shining where you are... first sunshine here in London in
>> many months...>> 
>> Katriona x
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Links:

   1. http://www.williamtp.com/
   2. http://www.katrionabeales.com/
   3. https://www.furtherfield.org/events/are-we-all-addicts-now/
   4. https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/100809
   5. https://www.furtherfield.org/addicts-now-interview-katriona-beales/
   6. https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/artist-explores-internet-addiction-im-talking-conflicts-heart-life
   7. http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/katriona-beales-interview-are-we-all-addicts-now
   8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05ypd2m
   9. https://london.sciencegallery.com/hooked-coming-2018
  10. http://www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/
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