The organizers of last week's "cocktail robotics" festival in Vienna, Austria, the annual "Roboexotica" event, have posted the audio from the lectures in German and English. I gave a talk there called "A Singular Metaphor" in which I tried to delve into the reason that the idea of uploading our minds is so attractive right now. Sean Bonner had a fun talk on user power on sites like Digg called "The inmates have taken over the asylum...," while Jens Ohlig from the Chaos Computer Club proposed that robots should create all literature, David Fine pondered consciousness, and Make Magazine's Bre Pettis gave a talk called "Machines: If you can't beat them, join them," about the utopia of apocalypse.
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Hmm, the new link seems broken, too.
@ Och Aye The Gnu: Roboexotica link or the sublinks to the audio server? All should work...
It's the links to the audio which don't work, either from the original page, or the alternative one.
Why should machines produces literature?
Why should people proofreads their presentations?
Why should machines produces literature?
Because theys always wins Novel Writing Month.
Seriously, though, neither the Foucault canard nor "efficiency" answer the question. I'll listen to the presentation once I can get ahold of it, but tha6 Powerpoint slide does not fill me with confidence that an insight has been had.
Short of AI expressing a viewpoint, machines aren't participants of a sentient conversation. Text is a tool. Authors and readers are users.
I have not rtfa, but from what I recall, it was actually Roland Barthes that declared the author was dead - http://www.google.com.au/search?q=the+author+is+dead