Music: Steve Reich and Musicians
Ray Kurzweil: Technology is a continuation of evolution
Kurzweil: we can create things
Kurzweil: far faster than biological evolution
Kurzweil: can create something more intelligent than ourselves
Kurzweil: intelligent machines.
Kurzwei: machines, machines, intelligent, ‘telligent machines (looped)
Cynthia Breazeal: Kismet is my baby
Cynthia: Building a baby the hard way
Cynthia: How do you play the role of evolution?
Sherry: One 10 year old said to me
Sherry: The robots are like Pinnochio
Sherry: not like real boys
Sherry: They’re sort of alive
Cynthia: sort of alive
Sheri: doesn’t have a mother
Sheri: doesn’t have siblings
Sheri: doesn’t know its gonna die.
Kurzweil: We’re going to be thrown from our perch of evolutionary superiority
Bill Joy: If we create a species smarter than ourselves our prospects are dim
Marvin Minsky: intelligent robots –
will be ah, our replacement.
Bill Joy: If we’re gonna create a robot species we oughta take a vote first
Henri Atlan: The Prophet Jeremiah
Atlan: decided
Atlan: to build
Atlan: an artificial man
Atlan: he was perfect
Atlan: was able to talk
Atlan: immediately he talked to Jeremiah
Atlan: and he ask him
Atlan: “What did you do?”
Atlan: “Well, look, I have succeeded”
Atlan: Say, “No, no no, is not good.”
Atlan: “From now on
Atlan: when people will meet other people in the street
Atlan: they will not know
Atlan: whether you made them
Atlan: or G-d made them”
Atlan: “Undo – me”
Atlan: So that’s what Jeremiah did.
Brooks: I don’t think robots are going to take over from us
Rod Brooks: because there isn’t going to an an ‘us’
Rod Brooks: Because we, are starting to bring technology, into our bodies.
Cynthia: This, gives me pause (looped)
Minsky: You go and buy this module
Minsky: in the Mind Store
Minsky: and have it connected to you brain
Minsky: and then you do four or five part counterpoint
Kurzweil: If I scan your brain
Kurzweil: download that information
Kurzweil: I’ll have a little you
Kurzweil: right here in my personal computer.
Minsky: No reason why people should put up with death
Minsky: start redesigning ourselves
Minsky: I think we’ll turn into
Minsky: something quite different.
Dawkins: Once upon a time there was
Dawkins: carbon based life,
Dawkins: and it gave over to,
Dawkins: silicon based life.
Dawkins: I don’t view the prospect, with equanimity
Dawkins: maybe I’m just sentimental
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: Here we are
Deech: Here we are
Deech: under the Tree
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: under the Tree again
2 sopranos & 3 tenors: at the end of the day
Steinsaltz: The sin of Adam – in eating
Steinsaltz: he was too hasty.
Kismet: Every creature has a song,
what do they say?
Cynthia: (To Kismet as her robot baby) So how’s your day goin’?
Cynthia: Yeah?
Cynthia: You got it all planned out?
Cynthia: You do?
Cynthia: You got it all planned out?
Cynthia: Maybe you’ll play with your yellow toy?