Terrifying Robot Dog

Evolutionary Leap

Episode Summary

Talking machines

Episode Notes

Evolutionary Leap

INTRO

Hello and welcome to Terrifying Robot Dog! I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we are here to talk about how technology is changing the way we interact with the world.

This week we talk about talking machines.

Please stay tuned, Terrifying Robot Dog is next...

LINKS

• DeepDream
• WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
• A melody written by a crowd
• Clive Thompson on Why Sci-Fi Is the Last Bastion of Philosophical Writing

The bit where Jon and I talked about the necessary fidelity of generated audio vs. images reminded me of this -- ks

• Cochlear implant: simulation on speech and music

TITLES

• Nightmare Creatures
• Comedy AI
• Evolutionary Leap

CLOSING

That's our show for this week. I'm Jonathan Stark - and I'm Kelli Shaver - and we hope you join us again next week for Terrifying Robot Dog. Bye!

POST-SHOW

Would you like to support Terrifying Robot Dog? Just think of two friends who would dig the show and send them to terrifyingrobotdog.com for links to iTunes, Facebook, and RSS feeds. If you don't have two friends, you can still help us out by leaving a nice review in iTunes. Thanks!