Videos from the Viewpoints Research Institute video archive, which includes talks by Dr. Alan kay. Also some movies of my own talks and projects are here. See tinlizzie.org/IA, and tinlizzie.org/ohshima for more information.
1:36:05 How interesting. A recent 'joke' I heard was that AI will never be able to replace Accountants for many reasons. 1: There are gray areas in the technical side of accounting... 2: Human accountants are dirt cheap in comparison! (if you consider the cost of development, or just the service itself) There is something about it.
There obviously is no single "better talk", but if you look at this list: tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay and look for Turing Award Lecture for example, or perhaps some later ones in 2010's might be interesting to you.
Some of my favorite quotes from this presentation: “Scaling more or less destroys communication." “The burden on ‘writers’ is to shape what is to be ‘read’ in ways that help guide the reader’s internal processes to make a similar model to that held by the writer.” “Shared context is what we’re looking for. What we do with language is point into what we think is the shared context between us and the other person.” “At Bell Labs if you walked around back before the divestiture, you would occasionally see a sign that would say, ‘Either do something very useful or very beautiful.’ I’ve never seen a sign like that at Google Research. That’s a huge problem.” ”Synergy: It’s what happens in the halls. How many beer-laden lunches do you have? How many bike rides to the top of the hills around Palo Alto?” “What everybody at PARC knew was that the purpose of arguing is not to win, but to illuminate. And in fact, when people started getting heated, [Bob] Taylor would say, ‘Type 2! Type 2!’ A Type 2 argument was that all of a sudden you had to explain the other person’s position back to them until they agreed with it, and then they had to explain your position back to you until you agreed with it, and by the time that had happened, you’d forgotten what you were arguing about.”
As for the "type 2 argument", yeah I'd love to be in a group where this was a norm. Too often people pick the weakest interpretation of something somebody said, and then try to discredit that interpretation.
Thanks for uploading this. I'm working on a video on the creation of the Dynabook and your videos have been very helpful. I had been hoping to find a recent version of Dr.. Kay
The links for the two papers handed out to be read before my talk are: "The Power Of The Context" - tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/m2004001_power.pdf "How?" - internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf Let me know if you have trouble downloading these
Here are references to the two papers: internetat50.com/references/Kay_How.pdf tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/m2004001_power.pdf Let me know if either doesn't work ...
OMG, what a bunch of baloney. Kay clearly knew nothing about either biology or computer science. No wonder that he appeals to people who have absolutely no knowledge about programming.
It’s interesting hearing him speak after reading his paper titled “Man computer symbiosis.” It outlines a great deal of the technologies we now use and under development such as brain computer interfaces
I am a regular at this channel yet this is the first time I see this gem! Thanks to Allen Wirfs-Brock who shared it on Mastodon; and Jethro Tull is my favourite rock band!
@15:00 a double edged sword with what Martin Luther proclaimed.. it enabled him to break down some of the lies being propagated and reaching common people - but when one lie is dissolved another replaced. Very tenuous - Martin Luther obviously a devout Christian as well (using that term Christian but they may not have used that title ).. just as Guttenberg so why was Guttenberg not horrified with HIMSELF??? LOL
Thanks for posting this. criminal it has such low views. got lost in the 'matrix' so to speak - of course as they don't want people to think about what they are actually doing with an iPad.
