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Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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Post by MacAndSmeg »

cassianoleal wrote: post #3

I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was wrong in my assumption. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU

The greatest game ever created, surprised people don't talk about it more!!

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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Post by Shawnecy »

This came out the same year as the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and at the 10 minute mark in the video they have a program "singing" the same song as HAL 9000 in the movie, "Daisy Bell".

I wonder who inspired who, assuming it's not just a coincidence.

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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Post by tsumnia »

Despite picking up computers at a young age, that was in 1995, nearly 3 decades after this moment. It still blows my mind at what we've been able to do with the power to simulate and visualize everything around us. It's something I do think "modern society" takes for granted - that there's so much about the world that we JUST learned about, or at least finally had a way to translate theories into a format digestible to everyone.

I wonder how as we learn to design out large scale AI systems future generations will think about how obvious they are to them but were actually revolutionary to us. For example if the multi-LLM agent simulations we're seeing with Interactive Simulacra[1] will spark new theories about how we should communicate with each other.

[1] https://github.com/joonspk-research/generative_agents

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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Post by TomWhitwell »

Shawnecy wrote: post #12

This came out the same year as the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and at the 10 minute mark in the video they have a program "singing" the same song as HAL 9000 in the movie, "Daisy Bell". I wonder who inspired who, assuming it's not just a coincidence.

From Wikipedia: In 1961, an IBM 7094 at Bell Labs was programmed to sing "Daisy Bell" in the earliest demonstration of computer speech synthesis... Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke witnessed the IBM 704 demonstration during a trip to Bell Labs in 1962 and referred to it in the 1968 novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the HAL 9000 computer sings "Daisy Bell" during its gradual deactivation.[13]

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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Post by neuronexmachina »

cassianoleal wrote: post #3

I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was wrong in my assumption. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU

Same. TIM's designer/coder Kevin Ryan actually made a spiritual successor called Contraption Maker, it's pretty fun and still has regular updates: https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/

Re: The Incredible Machine (1968) [video]

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Post by cassianoleal »

neuronexmachina wrote: post #16
cassianoleal wrote: post #3

I initially thought this was going to be about the awesome 90s game [0]. Was a bit puzzled by the date in brackets but I was wrong in my assumption. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU

Same. TIM's designer/coder Kevin Ryan actually made a spiritual successor called Contraption Maker, it's pretty fun and still has regular updates: https://store.steampowered.com/app/241240/Contraption_Maker/

Thanks! Purchased immediately. :D
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