K.I. – Kasperl interveniert

A talk about AI escalates as someone, who no one was expecting, suddenly tunes in: Punch a.k.a. Kasperl, the puppet. Similarly to a chatbot, Punch doesn’t really live, but nevertheless we’re willing to treat it as a living being. Both don’t care if what they are ‘saying’ is correct or wrong, truth or lie. For a chatbot, such specific human traits don’t matter, it’s only ‘job’ is to deliver output. And in such matters Punch itself is a master - anarchic, wild, not caring about ‘casualties’.

Regardless of whether it's Kasperl or artificial intelligence, it's up to us what we do with the content we're confronted with.

 

by and with: Andreas Pfaffenberger

Puppetry: Mika Bangemann & Andreas Pfaffenberger

Production: Zirkus des Wissens, JKU Linz