Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
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Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#2I heard of Alan Kay via Steve Jobs's intro of the iPhone [1], but otherwise know little about him - can anyone recommend other Alan Kay talks/essays/books?
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#3I heard of Alan Kay via Steve Jobs's intro of the iPhone [1], but otherwise know little about him - can anyone recommend other Alan Kay talks/essays/books? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=10m2s
Can't specifically recommend a talk but here's a menu of Kay talks.
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#4The idea of computing as the shared stage to reflect our own intelligence is really what sticks out to me as the best way to frame what interacting with a computer means. It's not new but Alan did a great job of motivating and framing it here. Thanks for posting this great reminder that what we use as computers today are still only poor imitations of what could truly be done if we can transport our minds to be more directly players on that stage. It's interesting to reflect the other way as well. If we are the actors reflecting a computer to itself. An AGI has to imagine and reflect in a space created of our ideas. To be native the AI needs better tools, the "mouse" of it's body controlling the closed loop of it's "graphics", how do we create such a space that is more directly shared? Dynamically trading been actor and audience in an improvisational exchange? This is the human computer symbiosis I seek.
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#5Wonderful as ever.
Kay demonstrates an emulator of Sketchpad. Anyone know if it's been shared anywhere?
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#6I heard of Alan Kay via Steve Jobs's intro of the iPhone [1], but otherwise know little about him - can anyone recommend other Alan Kay talks/essays/books? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=10m2s
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#7I heard of Alan Kay via Steve Jobs's intro of the iPhone [1], but otherwise know little about him - can anyone recommend other Alan Kay talks/essays/books? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=10m2s
Can't specifically recommend a talk but here's a menu of Kay talks. https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay
I find it mind-boggling that he has been doing this for 50+ years.
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#8I heard of Alan Kay via Steve Jobs's intro of the iPhone [1], but otherwise know little about him - can anyone recommend other Alan Kay talks/essays/books? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=10m2s
Highly recommend his talk on the power of simplicity. This was one of those lightbulb moments for me when I was a younger programmer:
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't specifically recommend a talk but here's a menu of Kay talks. https://tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay
I find it mind-boggling that he has been doing this for 50+ years.
IKR? I was a very young man and 40 years ago, I went to a talk* by Kay who I thought was 'old' at the time (haha) and this was already 15 years after he started at Xerox as a 30 year old! Now it's 2024 and I feel old... It was a pleasure to see his talk 40 years ago and awesome to again watch a talk today from an 83 year old Kay.
* after the talk, we even shared a cab to the airport and he graciously entertained all of my questions.
Re: Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]
#10The idea of computing as the shared stage to reflect our own intelligence is really what sticks out to me as the best way to frame what interacting with a computer means. It's not new but Alan did a great job of motivating and framing it here. Thanks for posting this great reminder that what we use as computers today are still only poor imitations of what could truly be done if we can transport our minds to be more d…
I feel like the LLM interface will enable that. I wonder what Alan Kay makes of the current LLM revolution (he does talk a bit about it in the question section @ around 1:35)