Ask Me Anything with Richard Gabriel
summary
Computational poetry system Inkwell generates programs that then generate poems, using Lisp reflection plus some machine learning so the program can “know” it is composing; an IDE prototype embeds compiler and debugger feedback into the decorated source instead of side panels; argues for hybrid AI that mixes learned perception with symbolic reasoning and a small runtime consciousness for robustness; defends worse is better incremental design; proposes an MFA in software for rigorous craft but universities decline the idea.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 1:38You'Ve Worked on Computational Poetry in Lists How Do You Think the Results Would Be Different if You Use the Different Language
- 3:36Does Being a Poet Affect How You Program
- 5:50What Do You See Is the Future of Ai and Will Programming Languages Ever Play a Kind of Central Role in the Alien Future
- 16:33Do You Think this Tension Would Go Away with Better Languages or Is It Something That We'Re Stuck with
- 18:20Background on the Relatively Early Days of Programming Languages
- 26:38Experimental versus Conceptual Art
- 27:48History of Lisp
- 32:32Do You Have Thoughts on How Cs Education Could Be Made Less Scary to Students from Marginalized Communities
- 34:44Do You Have any Tips in General on How To Recruit Good Developers
- 36:25How Would Cs Education Not Have a Science Facade
- 41:05Writing Skills Are a Better Predictor for the Ability To Program or Learn to Program than Mathematics Skills
- 49:58Do You See any Particular Risks or Opportunities in the Present Disruption that Conferences Are Going through
- 50:37Curating Conferences
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