Stammtischlern,
the open #BayAreaStammtisch on Sat, July 10, 2021 meets in English & German at 10:30 am PT, 1:30 pm ET, 18:30 UTC - Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xvo-bpyb-sjo Theme?: brainstorming creating Avatar Bots as instructors, with some ideas here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/07/bog-turtle-fascinating-to-read-that-you.html?m=0 Langs @sgkmacleod~
the open #BayAreaStammtisch on Sat, July 10, 2021 meets in English & German at 10:30 am PT, 1:30 pm ET, 18:30 UTC - Video call link: https://t.co/2OPKGZVywi Theme?: brainstorming creating Avatar Bots as instructors, with some ideas here: https://t.co/jPV4qusjsO Langs @sgkmacleod~
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) July 10, 2021
the open #BayAreaStammtisch on Sat, 7/10/21 meets in English & German at 10:30 am PT, 1:30 pm ET, 18:30 UTC - Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xvo-bpyb-sjo Theme?: brainstorming creating Avatar Bots as instructors, with some ideas here: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/07/bog-turtle-fascinating-to-read-that-you.html?m=0 Langs
@WorldUnivAndSch~
the open #BayAreaStammtisch on Sat, 7/10/21 meets in English & German at 10:30 am PT, 1:30 pm ET, 18:30 UTC - Video call link: https://t.co/C770ePd48t Theme?: brainstorming creating Avatar Bots as instructors, with some ideas here: https://t.co/HxUrjtL3pD Langs @WorldUnivAndSch ~
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) July 10, 2021
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1413899220814385153?s=20
the open Bay Area Stammtisch on Saturday, July 10, 2021 meets in English & German at 10:30 am PT, 18:30 UTC Bay Area Stammtisch - July 10, 2021
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xvo-
Fritz and I talked about creating, brainstorming-wise, Avatar Bots as instructors last Saturday, with some of this here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
"Fritz, (Peter, Markus Kroetzsch, Denny, Peter Norvig, computer scientists, Simone, Bay Area Stammtischlern),
Thanks for your email after our Bay Area Stammtisch yesterday, Fritz ... Regarding avatar bots and developing them further ...
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Would like to start 'building' avatar bots further right now ...
In the UC Berkeley Anthropology talk I gave this past Dec 2020 -
- I ended this talk with an animated .gif photograph in YouTube of Max Ehrmann 'reading' his 'poem'"The Desiderata" - but not yet interactively or conversationally (around slide #90) ...
2020 ... "
See too the ideas about Avatar agency ... What does this mean (and regarding self-driving cars too), philosophically even (as possible further theme)?
Also, as Fritz and I closed the Stammtisch last week, I mentioned how Heather Paxson, MIT professor of Anthropology (and of Quaker background) could be an interesting further contact for World Univ & Sch and our plans for creating careers, and here she just mentions edX tanking (with which WUaS is no longer partnering, I'm glad write) -
Sadly, EdX was tanking, crowded out by the commercial operations. But this disappointing news is, indeed, "reminiscent of another infrastructure transfer, in scholarly publishing... "
— Heather Paxson (@heather_paxson) July 7, 2021
Here again is the link for the Bay Area Stammtisch on July 10, 2021 at 10:30 am PT, 18:30 UTC Bay Area Stammtisch - July 10, 2021
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xvo-
Or dial in US: +1 818-614-3607 PIN: 675 411 620#
(I'll have better broadband access than last week with a new HotSpot on smartphone set up ... And greetings from Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts!)
CHEERS, Alles Gute, Scott
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
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Opinion | MIT and Harvard Have Sold Higher Education’s Future https://t.co/55bN671mBN
— Heather Paxson (@heather_paxson) July 7, 2021
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Fritz, (Peter, Stammtischler),
Thanks for your email after our last Stammtisch, Fritz ... and the open and welcoming Bay Area Stammtisch meets in about 30 minutes, in English and in German - Video call link: https://meet.google.com/
"Scott,
Thank you so much for your amazingly forward looking reflections which fully resonate with me!
The new potential of combining fundamental disciplines (Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, Technology, Sciences, Leadership, Virtuality) as part of a valuable WUaS PhD program focusing on efficient open-minded collaboration in most meaningful human ways sounds & feels fascinating to me.
Perhaps we can try moving from a ‘let’s wait and see’ mode to a much more proactive ‘connect, explore, experiment’ with enthusiasm for developing a Virtual Lab environment, similar to the space station research activities where hundreds of people assist the people who carry out the experiments. Such a virtual lab environment could also provide a ‘bootstrapping’ platform where avatar bots and people from all over the world begin to collectively learn from each other in interesting new ways.
Since Avatars offer a 24/7 operating mode, time zone constraints or language barriers, for example, could be more easily mitigated. People could query ‘Avatar Clones’ and get a quick update on the progress being made during other people’s interactions with the virtual lab environment. The JOY of sharing and helping with ideas, skills and knowledge with others could also create a paradigm shift in moving away from self-centered success in learning. Any more thoughts on this emerging on your side, Scott?
Warmest regards,
Fritz"
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the open #BayAreaStammtisch on Sat, 7/10/21 meets in English & German at 10:30 am PT, 1:30 pm ET, 18:30 UTC - Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xvo-
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Here again is the link for the Bay Area Stammtisch on July 10, 2021 at 10:30 am PT, 18:30 UTC Bay Area Stammtisch - July 10, 2021
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/
Or dial in US: +1 818-614-3607 PIN: 675 411 620#
Sounds good. Here's a recent article on Avatar Bots in the German newspaper - https://www.faz.net/aktuell/
Again,
I would like for all of us to be able to start 'building' realistic avatar bots (aka Samsung Neons) further right now ...
and see,
In the UC Berkeley Anthropology talk I gave this past Dec 2020 -
- I ended the talk with an animated .gif photograph in YouTube of Max Ehrmann 'reading' his 'poem'"The Desiderata" - but not yet interactively or conversationally (around slide #90) ...
Also,
2020 - "Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth for Tourism and Tourism Studies with Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs: A Case Study" UC Berkeley Anthropology TSWG presentation (slides) - 12/18/20 Fr ~ https://docs.google.com/
And here's the video of this Anthropology talk -
SGK MacLeod TSWG 12 18 2020 Creating a Realistic Virtual Earth Harbin for Tourism
- where I explore further bringing Sunheart, my main Harbin informant and friend, who died last autumn, 'alive' again as an interactive conversational Avatar Bot (what stories he might tell about Harbin Hot Springs/Heart Consciousness Church (HCC), given the right datasets !) ... By adding the approximately 10 audio interviews I made TO emerging chat bots / avatar Bot algorithms and software ...
(In my talk, I skipped about 40 of the ~90 slides, due to time constraints, FYI - so I talked about, roughly, slides 1-48 and 89-93) ...
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Avatar agency ?
Some related ideas in this 'label' in blog ...
What is agency, what is autonomy (re autonomous self-driving vehicles) - are all far-reaching philosophical questions, and newly regarding avatar bots, AI, and information technologies ... Getting into questions of consciousness (sentience, awareness, feeling, subjectivity) too - how can we code for something that is impossible so far to explain how it works, in the brain and in the bodymind?
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If Second Life avatars in a group build-able 3D virtual world which is cartoon-esque, but stimulating imaginatively re coding, could be coded for agency, or consciousness, in conjunction with you operating your avatar and I operating my 'Aphilo' avatar eg -
"Aphilo Scott MacLeod The Making of Virtual Harbin"
(Peter Bothe, above, in Bremen, is spending some time in SL these days)
What would this involve? Second Life is a bit of a graveyard these days, in my experience, and static coding-wise, and not extensible ... But Samsung Neons into Google Street View with a #filmto3D App at cell and atomic levels too??? ... And into a WUaS Operating System as Kernel ... For STEM and ethnographic/social sciences' field sites, and as classrooms, - and for a Film to 3D App?
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Seeking right NOW, for example, to add my interviews with Sunheart into developing Sunheart avatar Bot chat bots ... (Stanford Philosopher Richard Rorty interviews and videos too) ... but am in 'waiting in the Light' friendly-wise mode, since I haven't come upon, hacking-wise, open source Samsung Neon aka 'artificial humans' software into Google Street View with time slider and TensorFlow artificial intelligence environment with which to explore this further.
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Happy Independence Day from the USA ![😌]()
Seeking to get out the WUaS Minutes for 6/19/21 Monthly Business Meeting today, July 4th ... http://scott-macleod.
Nice to have met in the Bay Area Stammtisch (Peter's language too) in a Google Meet video conference from Cuttyhunk Island Massachusetts last week, on a smartphone from this end too; am back to a laptop computer this week :)
Cheers,
Scott
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Dear Fritz, Stammtischler, All,
Here's the video from today's Bay Area Stammtisch - https://drive.google.com/
As
@edXOnline
looks to its next phase of growth and impact, joining forces with
@2UInc
marks a major milestone in our evolution. https://press.edx.org/2u-inc.-
https://twitter.com/
Some further resources -
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Searched on "MIT OCW teaching seminar," and found -
Video result for MIT OCW teaching seminar (52:58)
HHMI Education Group Seminar: Flipping the Dice
YouTube · MIT OpenCourseWare
Dec 22, 2014
HHMI Education Group Seminar: Flipping the Dice
YouTube · MIT OpenCourseWare
Dec 22, 2014
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Could WUaS create a course or share resources that could be used to instruct for example 10 German post docs in how to teach a flourishing SEMINAR newly, and, for example, to 100 German undergraduates and PhD students, and so they could begin teaching in this way to CC-4 MIT OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ AND - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
Conference_Method_of_Teaching_
Assessment_and_Grading_at_
(And Fritz and I began our Bay Area Stammtisch conversation today talking about emotional intelligence and grading, which WUaS hopes to facilitate a conversation about in this wiki subject, and eventually in 200 countries and in their main languages).
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A good course platform for both asynchronous seminar, and virtual reality with avatar bots -
Is this JuryX, HarvardX, edX course from Charlie Nesson a helpful course platform approach, and for teaching the seminar method, even in conjunction with avatar bots, in some of the VR simulations -
https://www.edx.org/course/
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https://www.edx.org/course/
4
And here's a little information about edX being acquired by 2U, and Harvard and MIT getting $800 million dollars for edX -
As
@edXOnline
looks to its next phase of growth and impact, joining forces with
@2UInc
marks a major milestone in our evolution. https://press.edx.org/2u-inc.-
https://twitter.com/
"2U to acquire substantially all edX assets, including edX brand, website, and marketplace"
"edX offers over 3,000 online programs, including a substantial majority of courses with a free/audit track, Masters and doctorate degrees, Professional Certificates, and MicroBachelors® programs and MicroMasters® programs."
"edX offers over 3,000 online programs, including a substantial majority of courses with a free/audit track, Masters and doctorate degrees, Professional Certificates, and MicroBachelors® programs and MicroMasters® programs."
... with more here including a letter from the President of MIT - https://scott-macleod.
There will be no Bay Area Stammtisch that I'll facilitate on 7/17/21, since I'll be traveling (but would you like to facilitate a Bay Area Stammtisch, Fritz, Simone, Peter or anyone)? The next Bay Area Stammtisch will meet on July 24, 2021 - meet.google.com/pwa-jymy-ipk
Cheers,
Scott
Will add to this blog post further -
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