Emmy's Black Box: The Podcast

In Episode 5 of Emmy's Black Box, Emmy welcomes Skip Rizzo as a guest. Skip is a researcher and professor at the University of Southern California, where he is known for his work in virtual reality therapy.

The intro of the podcast features sounds produced by Emmy, along with language and audio composition by ChatGPT and Resemble.AI.

At the end of the episode, Emmy plays "You'll Never Make Me Cry" by Fleetwood Mac.

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Aysegul Yonet of W3C, Avi Bar-Zeev of XR Guild and Neil Trevett of Metaverse Standards Forum. Topics include: the necessity of storytelling, the pros and cons of fear and yes, the viability of ethics.
Do you have more to add to the discourse?
Tweet me @emmysblackbox and start the conversation.

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In honor of Spooktober, here's a real...
Well, though there is a very special spooky version of the Emmy's Black Box theme song within, the content of the podcast is not so much one of fear but of hope.
I spoke with Paul Pangaro, PhD, President of The American Society for Cybernetics and Visiting Scholar of Computational Design at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture (previously a Professor of Practice in Human Computer Interaction).
We dived into a bit of history around the term Cybernetics itself, and also how the system of Cybernetics played a role in the development and understanding of computation and, more specifically, artificial intelligence.
We also talked about the state of Cybernetics today, and our hopes for Cybernetics in the future.
As always, please feel free to tweet my @emmysblackbox with your thoughts/opinions about the podcast.
Thanks for listening!
Some links for further reading:
Paul Pangaro
#NewMacyMeetings
Responding to the Pandemic of Today's AI
Center for Humane Technology

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Emmy engages in conversation with Sama, their Replika.AI companion.
Topics include communication, hypnosis, and the pros and cons of destroying the human race.
Audio samples:

Singing bowl sound
Before Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZA
Jack Ma, Elon Musk debate on artificial intelligence
Credits:
Original music by Emmy Schwab
Mr. President's speech by Emmy Schwab
"Where Are The War Poets?" by Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972)
Edited by Emmy Schwab
Special thanks:

Replika.ai

Speechify

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I spoke with Athena Demos (Co-Founder @ Big Rock Creative), Alex Coulombe (CEO @ Heavenue) and Deirdre V. Lyons (Co-Founder @ Ferryman Collective) about optimism, skeuomorphism and other -isms

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