Frankenstein and AI now.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay, Christopher Frayling and David H. Guston join Matthew Sweet to discuss Mary Shelley's story in film, fiction and the view of AI scientists now.
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by the poet and writer Fiona Sampson is out now.
Christopher Frayling has published Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years
Dr Daisy Hay is Senior Lecturer, English Literature and Archival Studies at the University of Exeter and a BBC Radio 3 and AHRC New Generation Thinker who will be publishing later this year a book on The Making of Frankenstein.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Annotated for scientists, engineers and creators of all kinds edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert
Late Junction tonight is looking at music and AI, asking can we create a digital version of the ideal Late Junction collaborator using computer code alone?
The Radio 3 Sunday feature Select, Edit, Paste presented by Clemency Burton-Hill has been exploring new technologies and the arts.
Producer: Zahid Warley
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| 0:32.1 | Hello, I'm Matthew Sweet. |
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| 1:05.8 | We're about to unfold the story of Frankenstein, a man of science, who sought to create a man after |
| 1:13.6 | his own image without reckoning upon God. I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. |
| 1:23.6 | It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel |
| 1:29.4 | that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a |
| 1:31.5 | strain, now is your chance to |
| 1:34.4 | well, we've warned you. |
| 1:41.0 | It was on a dreary night of November that I |
| 1:44.0 | beheld the accomplishment of my toils. |
| 1:47.0 | With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me |
| 1:52.3 | that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay up my feet. |
| 1:57.9 | It was already one in the morning. |
| 2:00.6 | The rain pattered dismally against the pains, |
| 2:03.5 | and my candle was nearly burnt out when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, |
| 2:09.8 | I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. It breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. |
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