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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? 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 ## 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. 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.


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