Free Thinking - Man and Machine: Garry Kasparov, Wyndham Lewis. 2017 New Generation Thinker Simon Beard
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Garry Kasparov talks to Philip Dodd about being defeated by a supercomputer in the chess match he played in 1997 and how this affected his view of AI. 100 years ago, Wyndham Lewis was first commissioned as a war artist; Richard Slocombe, curator of a new exhibition and art historian Anna Grueztner Robins discuss his art with John Keane who was a war artist in the Gulf War. 2017 New Generation Thinker Simon Beard outlines his research into overpopulation and our attitude towards death.
Garry Kasparov's book is called Deep Thinking: Where Artificial Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins.
Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War is a display of 160 artworks, books, journals and pamphlets which runs at the Imperial War Museum North in Salford from 23 June 2017 – 1 January 2018
Simon Beard is based at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge researching existential risk. New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to find academics who can turn their research into radio and television. You can find more on the Free Thinking website.
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| 0:32.1 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm Philip Dodd. |
| 0:35.7 | Thanks for downloading this edition of Radio 3's Arts and Ideas discussion programme free thinking. |
| 0:40.8 | And in this programme, we're looking at machines and man, war, painting and death. |
| 0:47.1 | Hello, he had the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist, was an old volcano of the right, was the greatest portrait painter not only of his age, |
| 0:57.0 | but of all ages. Just three verdicts on Wyndham Lewis, painter, polemicist, novelist, |
| 1:03.0 | official war artist and satirist. William Shakespeare lived in a savage time, a very savage time indeed, |
| 1:10.0 | quite unlike ours, in which, though we drop |
| 1:13.5 | a bomb or two upon each other and starve each other to the bone, both in peace and in war, |
| 1:19.6 | we have rarely attained to a remarkable degree of innocuous politeness. |
| 1:26.1 | Bombs there may be, but there are no black eyes. |
| 1:29.3 | Wyndham Lewis speaking in 1938 and later we look back on this self-proclaimed rebel |
| 1:35.3 | as a new show opens at the Imperial War Museum North. |
| 1:39.3 | Also we have a postcard from a new generation thinker on the opportunities as well as the constraints |
| 1:45.6 | that death provides us with. But we begin with a lively, maybe testy conversation with a man |
| 1:52.7 | many believe is the greatest chess player of all time, the Russian Gary Kasparov. He was a small |
| 1:59.5 | player in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet |
| 2:02.5 | Empire. He defeated the official Soviet master Karpov as Perestroika blossomed and he wanted |
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