Rik Lander & Phil D Hall | Dramatic Conversational AI | Watershed
Channel: Watershed
Date: 27/05/2022

Watershed is a partner in MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol that will celebrate the West of England's reputation as an international trailblazer in creative technology and screen-based media. The lunchtime talks are partly supported through My World.
 
MyWorld is funded through UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) ‘Strength in Places fund’. Main Delivery partners: University of Bristol, University of the West of England, University of Bath, Bath Spa University, Digital Catapult, Aardman Animations, BDH, Esprit Film and Television, Bristol Old Vic, Opposable Games and Watershed.

This talk will be BSL Interpreted and will be held in the building and online! 

Since 2016, participatory dramatist,  Rik Lander, and conversational AI designer, Phil D Hall, have been developing I am Echoborg. This is a funny, thought-provoking live show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence. It builds on the ideas of social psychologists Corti & Gillespie who devised the term, echoborg.
 
Hall and Lander will reveal some of the powerful, amusing and disturbing psychological and dramatic effects within the show and how these have consequences for all of us as AI is used to make decisions on our behalf in many aspects of our lives. For the technically minded we’ll also lift the lid for a glimpse at the inner workings and position a methodology where algorithms meet humans and play together nicely.

The last talk of every month is BSL interpreted.