The Talking Heads

Start: 
1999
End: 
2000
Project website: 
http://talking-heads.csl.sony.fr/index.html

The Talking Heads experiment raises questions in three areas of research:

  1. How do words get their meanings?
  2. Is artificial intelligence possible?
  3. How should machines interact with humans?

The questions are raised through a playful but technologically highly advanced experimental setup. This website describes both the human/scientific aspects of the experiment, and the machine/technological aspects.