Programming as a Performance

Since the inception of the programmable computer we have grappled with the challenge of validating the outcome of a conversation in code between a human and a machine. Programming as a performance embraces this challenge, putting it at the centre of a performance. Focusing on the liveliness and complexity of dancing with a machine in realtime. In a performance a human edits and writes algorithms, expressing their thoughts and composition in front of an audience. Binding to their fingertips control of light, sound and poetry. Sharing their screens and code and its effects on the world.

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"There are many mailing lists and on-line forums where
Joe Appcoder and Joe Sixpack and all the other Joes
are excitedly discussing the imminent arrival of
True AI and Strong AI and the Technological Singularity.
These AI wannabes and Moechte-gerns are brimming each
with their own approach to how AI should be achieved."

"So what's the problem?"

"The problem is these otherwise brilliant people
have not taken the trouble to think out and explore
how basic human intelligence came into existence on Earth.
They have not paid their AI dues. They have not set about
designing a cognitive system based on the obvious aspects
of their own central nervous system. They have the
drive and ambition to create AI, but they are actually
too eager and too impatient to work at the leading edge."

"Nothing wrong with that."

"They should start with the outside of the CNS --
the sensory organs and the motor actuators --
then work their way inwards to the center of
consciousness. For each of the main human or
robotic senses, they should design sensory
communication channels and sensory memory
systems for both storage and retrieval of
sensory data. It will dawn on them that
visual recognition is the most difficult
sense for evolution or technology to create."

"Vision in robots is already far advanced."

"Once the would-be mind-designers have mapped
out five or more sensory inputs and storage
systems, they will eventually tumble to the
main neurotheoretical question: What ties it
all together in a unified system of cognition?"

"Is it a society of mind, like Minsky suggested?"

"It is more like a gridwork of latent systems
ready to spring in to action during the stream
of consciousness. It is the side-by-side existence
of both concerete sensory channels and abstract
conceptual channels, overlaid with linguistic
mechanisms for thinking in natural human language."

"Not all thinking is in words; it can also be in images."

"But language is what distinguishes Homo sapiens from
the apes. Language forces the thinking organism to
express itself with verbal concepts. Therefore the
ineluctable key to True AI is NLP -- natural
language processing."

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