Benjamin Law
speaker
327 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 4d ago
Benjamin Law’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You mentioned a word before that stuck with me, the demo scene.
What is the demo scene?
What's software
So these days, if you can afford it, you own a computer.
Everyone I know has a laptop.
Most people have a smartphone.
When do you think owning a personal computer became de rigueur, like normal, basically?
So you didn't grow up with a lot of computers, but fast forward to now, and you and your husband, Andrew, also a computer guy, have a collection of computers.
In fact, I believe it's called the Buntine Computer Collection.
How many
we talking about, Mel?
Wow, that's going to stay there for all time now.
Wow.
I don't want you to choose a favourite necessarily, but I am going to ask you, what is your favourite computer in the collection?
do you love about the Zorba?
Well, I'm looking at an image of the Zorba now, and I have to say, Zorba's kind of cute.
It kind of reminds me of WALL-E, the robot from WALL-E, the Pixar film.
You can see little eyes, but it's definitely a primitive version of a computer, isn't it?
Mel, nowadays there's a lot of anxiety around AI, but AI isn't as new as we think it is.
Tell me about one of the computers in this collection, the Connection Machine CM2, and how it was wrestling with AI 40 years ago.
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