[NetBehaviour] Interviewing inventor of Amazon Alexa

ruth catlow ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org
Thu Apr 19 11:08:58 CEST 2018


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 immediately

: )
Ruth

On 18/04/18 14:00, Katriona Beales wrote:
> Dear Net Behaviour crew,
>
> I've been chatting to William Tunstall-Pedoe 
> <http://www.williamtp.com/> 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...
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> Katriona x
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>     Subject: [NetBehaviour] three short pieces involving rain| O || O |
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>     <http://www.alansondheim.org/stormy1.mp3> terz guitar, rain
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>     <http://www.alansondheim.org/stormy2.mp3> terz guitar, rain
>     http://www.alansondheim.org/stormy3.mp3
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>     Message: 2
>     Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 01:11:29 -0400 (EDT)
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