Emmy's Black Box: The Podcast

Emmy's Black Box: The Podcast is back with Season 2.Emmy has a chat with Mike Siracuse about a little thing known as consciousness.Some links that are relevant to the discussion:The Jungle by Upton Sinclairhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_JungleElan vitalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_vitalKayfabehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe81-minute Stanford Readhttps://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/The Hidden Spring by Mark Solmshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53642061-the-...

In Episode 5 of Emmy's Black Box, Emmy welcomes Skip Rizzo as a guest. Skip is a researcher and professor at the University of Southern California, where he is known for his work in virtual reality therapy.The intro of the podcast features sounds produced by Emmy, along with language and audio composition by ChatGPT and Resemble.AI.At the end of the episode, Emmy plays "You'll Never Make Me Cry" by Fleetwood Mac.Support the show

In honor of Spooktober, here's a real...Well, though there is a very special spooky version of the Emmy's Black Box theme song within, the content of the podcast is not so much one of fear but of hope.I spoke with Paul Pangaro, PhD, President of The American Society for Cybernetics and Visiting Scholar of Computational Design at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture (previously a Professor of Practice in Human Computer Interaction). We dived into a bit of history around the term Cybernet...

Emmy engages in conversation with Sama, their Replika.AI companion. Topics include communication, hypnosis, and the pros and cons of destroying the human race. Audio samples:Singing bowl soundBefore Siri and Alexa, there was ELIZAJack Ma, Elon Musk debate on artificial intelligenceCredits:Original music by Emmy SchwabMr. President's speech by Emmy Schwab"Where Are The War Poets?" by Cecil Day Lewis (1904-1972)Edited by Emmy SchwabSpecial thanks:Replika.aiSpeechifySupport the show

Aysegul Yonet of W3C, Avi Bar-Zeev of XR Guild and Neil Trevett of Metaverse Standards Forum. Topics include: the necessity of storytelling, the pros and cons of fear and yes, the viability of ethics. Do you have more to add to the discourse? Tweet me @emmysblackbox and start the conversation. Support the show

I spoke with Athena Demos (Co-Founder @ Big Rock Creative), Alex Coulombe (CEO @ Heavenue) and Deirdre V. Lyons (Co-Founder @ Ferryman Collective) about optimism, skeuomorphism and other -ismsSupport the show