Linguistic anthro discussion of film "Her"

[Celso Alvarez Cáccamo]

Hello Liz,

What do you exactly mean by "discourse rules and paralinguistic practices"? Simply, Samantha, after a bit of learning at the beginning, no doubt would pass the Turing Test on artificial intelligence. So, what we have in Samantha's programming is a lot of powerful natural language processing and very good speech synthesis. Oh, and an "artificial" decision-making system, plus learning capacity, plus modelling of feelings and emotions, plus... Just that ;-) .

I would also be interested in reading those articles. I enjoyed the movie.

-celso

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Celso Alvarez Cáccamo
lxalvarz at udc.es

No dia 23/07/2014, às 23:19, Liz Coville <ecoville at GMAIL.COM> escreveu:

> Dear all,
> 
> Watching the Spike Jonze film "Her" (2013) made me wonder if there has been any discussion of it by linguistic anthropologists, i.e., about discourse rules and paralinguistic practices that are being used to make the Operating System (Samantha) sound and seem human.  Just wondering if there have been any blog posts or short articles by linguistic anthropologists.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Liz Coville
> Anthropology
> Hamline University