From bb527dccbf14a18b8db2b818c3256f52c6f9d9ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:13:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/Improvisation-and-Control' --- content/topic/Improvisation-and-Control | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/content/topic/Improvisation-and-Control b/content/topic/Improvisation-and-Control index c0954c8..8770b78 100644 --- a/content/topic/Improvisation-and-Control +++ b/content/topic/Improvisation-and-Control @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ If Rainbow Family is pedagogy then its lesson is surely that computers, and mach What would an alternate machine listening system modeled along Lewis' lines be like? The becoming-Rainbow-Family of the world? The world as rainbow family, in which the interdependence of man and machine is acknowledged and embraced, but also rooted in a concern for racial justice and traditions of afro-futurism? How might this idea of multidominance play out at scale, laced through our homes and cities? How would such a world be designed? How compatible would it be with the current regime of pervasive surveillance, data extraction and colonialism, capital accumulation, automation and control? What social relations would a system like this work to facilitate and produce? What would it sound like? And what risks would it too run? + ## 3. DARPA improv In this YouTube video, a white woman plays guitar with an Artificial Intelligence. The computer listens and responds. Once again, we find ourselves in a version of Yershov's diagram. It is almost as if she is having a conversation with the AI. She plays, and it listens and responds. She listens to its response and plays some more. This improvised conversation is like the exchange between [video] scientists and aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It might be playful, or maybe antagonistic - we don't and can't know the meaning even if we could participate in the dialog.