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ACLA 2019 When Galatea Speaks

ACLA 2019 When Galatea Speaks. Nina Begus (Harvard/UW) nbegus@fas.harvard.edu. works. - George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1913) (musical My Fair Lady ) - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818) (numerous films)

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ACLA 2019 When Galatea Speaks

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  1. ACLA 2019When Galatea Speaks Nina Begus (Harvard/UW) nbegus@fas.harvard.edu

  2. works • - George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1913) (musical My Fair Lady) • - Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus (1818) (numerous films) • - Karel Čapek’sVálka s Mloky (War with the Newts) (1936) • - Richard Powers’sGalatea 2.2 (1995) • - E. T. A. Hoffmann’s ‘Der Sandmann’ (1816) (Hoffmann’s Tales of Hoffmann, ballet Coppélia) • - Madame de Stäel’sLe mannequin (1811) • - C. L. Moore’s ‘No Woman Born’ (1944) • - Roald Dahl’s ‘William and Mary’ (1959) • - Anne McCaffrey’s ‘The Ship Who Sang’ (1969) • - James Tiptree Jr.’s ‘The Girl Who Was Plugged In’ (1974) • - films Her (2013), Blade Runner (1982, 2017), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), A.I. (2001) …

  3. Jaquet-Droz’s automata: The Musician and The Writer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata#/media/File:Automates-Jaquet-Droz-p1030490.jpg

  4. “Nah then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin, deah” (I, 73) • __________________________________________________________________ • MRS. HIGGINS [at last, conversationally] Will it rain, do you think? • LIZA. The shallow depression in the west of these islands is likely to move slowly in an easterly direction. There are no indications of any great change in the barometrical situation. • FREDDY. Ha! ha! how awfully funny! • LIZA. What is wrong with that, young man? I bet I got it right. • FREDDY. Killing! (III, 325-334) • ___________________________________________________________________ • “I could have done it once; but now I cant go back to it. Last night, when I was wandering about, a girl spoke to me; and I tried to get back into the old way with her; but it was no use. […] You told me, you know, that when a child is brought to a foreign country, it picks up the language in a few weeks, and forgets its own. Well, I am a child in your country. I have forgotten my own language, and can speak nothing but yours” (V, 496-499).

  5. Al Hirschfield’s illustration of the musical record

  6. How to write speech • “Ow, eez ye-ooa san, is e? Wal, fewddan y' de-ootybawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awyatbahtpyin. Will ye-oopy me f'them? [Here, with apologies, this desperate attempt to represent her dialect without a phonetic alphabet must be abandoned as unintelligible outside London.]” (I, 95-100). • “Good enough for yə-oo “ (II, 125) • “Now, now, EnryIggins!” (V, 205, 336). Shavian phonetic alphabet (posthumously made) Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion: The Phonetic Play, 14. Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Buckley 30).

  7. Speaking machines Replica of Wolfgang von Kempelen’s speaking machine (1769) Replica of Erasmus Darwin’s speaking machine (1803) Joseph Faber’s Euphonia (1940)

  8. Weizenbaum’s Eliza My (*) conversation with Eliza (>) on May 28, 2018 Mathewson, Kory W., and Piotr Mirowski. ‘Improvised Theatre Alongside Artificial Intelligences.’ Proceedings of the Thirteenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 2017. 66-72.

  9. Sophia from hanson robotics “Like Amazon Echo, Google Assistant and Siri, Sophia can ask and answer questions about discrete pieces of information, such as what types of movies and songs she likes, the weather and whether robots should exterminate humans” (Chris Griffith for The Australian) “I’ve taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior. She’s to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody’s health—Fine day and How do you do, you know—and not to let herself go on things in general. That will be safe” (III, 110-112).

  10. Thank you!

  11. Further work on posthuman language • Bonobo Kanzi's lexigram Hofstadter, Douglas and David Moser.‘To Err is Human; To Study Error-Making is Cognitive Science.’ Michigan Quarterly Review 82/3 (1989): 195

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