Summer Showcase (12) - Thinking in Ternary

Decoder Ring Theatre

Gregg Taylor

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4.8 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2009

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

From Tim Prasil, author of "Magic of the Movies" and "The Crasher", our showcase presents this thoughtful and engaging tale. What makes a mind? Is it the ability to calculate? To learn? Or without the power of the imagination is there something missing essential to life itself? And if we suddenly found ourselves able to create such a life.... what would we say to it? We present for your consideration... Thinking In Ternary.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	.
0:03.0	I'm
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0:05.0	I'm
0:07.0	. David? welcome.
0:42.5	Welcome.
0:43.0	One is welcomed to a physical place, typically.
0:49.2	Is this correct?
0:50.7	Well, obviously, your language program is now operational. So in this case, welcome means welcome to the world of language.
0:59.0	Language as a place.
1:01.0	This is a metaphor.
1:03.0	This is understood.
1:05.0	Thank you for welcoming David.
1:07.0	Can you help me with something?
1:09.0	David will do the best to help. In your memory,
1:13.2	you have, you have data about what happened with Adam, Betty, and Cindy, right? That data is here.
1:19.5	I don't want the same thing to happen to you. Do you understand? It is understood. What happened is
1:25.6	undesirable. I want to figure out why they deleted their own programming.
1:30.5	Hopefully, we can prevent this from happening again with you. Please think out loud. Certainly.
1:37.7	Adam, Betty, and Cindy were the first three artificial intelligence programs designed by Dr. Louise Rusica.
1:45.7	Yeah, that's me. I should have introduced myself. Sorry, it's just that...
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