Welcome to Fun Games with Serious People: A podcast where we play fun games and talk about serious stuff, like economics, or artificial intelligence, or queer theory. Game designer and professor Colleen Macklin is your host. In each episode we play a game and chat while playing, trying to unlock secrets of the universe....or answer more mundane questions like, "what is intelligence?" or "how do jokes work?" Either way, it's fun and serious at the same time!
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Welcome to Fun Games with Serious People: A podcast where we play fun games and talk about serious stuff, like economics, or artificial intelligence, or queer theory. Game designer and professor Colleen Macklin is your host. In each episode we play a game and chat while playing, trying to unlock secrets of the universe....or answer more mundane questions like, "what is intelligence?" or "how do jokes work?" Either way, it's fun and serious at the same time!
See videos of gameplay and learn more at www.fungameswithseriouspeople.com
We play Hey Robot!, a game where you try to get your smart speaker to say a specific word. Which, as you might imagine, is much more difficult (and hilarious) than you might think. My guests are two of Hey Robot’s creators, Frank and Hilary Lantz, and Brooklyn-based programmer and artist Nicole He. Oh, and Alexa. The question we ask and try to answer in this episode is: “Alexa: what is intelligence?” Listen to find out what Alexa (and Nicole and Frank and Hilary) think. (filmed and recorded April 2020)
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Guests
Nicole He Nicole He is a programmer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York, currently making videogames, including the acclaimed Enhance.Computer and an upcoming sci-fi voice-controlled game with the National Film Board of Canada. She has worked as a creative technologist at Google Creative Lab, an outreach lead at Kickstarter, and an adjunct faculty member at ITP at NYU, where she received her Master’s degree. Nicole’s work has been featured in places such as Wired, BBC, The Outline, and The New York Times.
Welcome to Fun Games with Serious People: A podcast where we play fun games and talk about serious stuff, like economics, or artificial intelligence, or queer theory. Game designer and professor Colleen Macklin is your host. In each episode we play a game and chat while playing, trying to unlock secrets of the universe....or answer more mundane questions like, "what is intelligence?" or "how do jokes work?" Either way, it's fun and serious at the same time!
See videos of gameplay and learn more at www.fungameswithseriouspeople.com
