Memorandums from Mary
Friday, June 2, 2023
Truth Versus Truthiness
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Only those born before 1980 are considered digital natives. I’m classified as a digital immigrant, because I was born around the same year a...
Monday, May 29, 2023
Robots and the “Truth” of Reality
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A scene from one of the first productions of R.U.R. (London, 1921) I recently read Karel Capek’s play R.U.R. (first performed in 1921), an...
Saturday, May 20, 2023
The Three Forms of Proteus in Different Versions of Demon Seed
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I recently rewatched the 1977 film Demon Seed —a movie about an artificial entity gaining power over human beings. I had last seen the film ...
Saturday, May 13, 2023
If an Elephant or Pig Can Paint, Why Not a Robot?
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In Diane Ackerman’s 2014 book The Human Age, * she discussed AI with roboticist Hod Lipson. Professor Lipson is the director of Columbia’s C...
Saturday, May 6, 2023
The Argument over “Truth”
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Malcolm McDowell (as H.G. Wells) reacts to David Warner (as Jack the Ripper) as Jack shows Wells TV footage of contemporary (1970s) violence...
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