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Portrait of musician, singer + song-writer Paul Dempsey.
album: Everything Is True
song: “Ramona Was a Waitress”
musician: by Paul Dempsey
year: 2009
watch: “Ramona Was a Waitress” • music video
listen: “Ramona Was a Waitress” • song
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quote: from Paul Dempsey
bio: musician, singer + song-writer
So “Ramona Was a Waitress” is unusual song. It’s about a guy arguing with an artificial intelligent robot waitress about mortality. Sort of an unusual subject for a pop song. But that’s what I was thinking about as I scrawled the lyrics — artificial intelligence and conscious robots arguing about the meaning of life.
The Ramona actually comes from — there’s a guy called Ray Kurzweil who is an interesting character. He’s one of the foremost thinkers on artificial intelligence and what the future holds for technology. He created this chat-bot program called Ramona that’s like an interactive person.
As technology progresses he’s trying to build her up so she becomes more and more sophisticated. He hopes that one day in the future she will be essentially conscious. That’s the point he’s trying to make: that at some point in the future tech will be arguably conscious. I find that an interesting idea. I managed to pack it into a pop song.
— Paul Dempsey
publication: Technoist
story title: Robots in popular music
story deck: Paul Dempsey teams up w. a robot waitress
author: by Michael Harries
date: June 29, 2009
quote | no. 2
quote: from Paul Dempsey
bio: musician, singer + song-writer
The Ramona in the song is actually supposed to be this kind of artificial intelligence and the third bridge. There’s this guy Ray Kurzweil who has all these wacky ideas about paths to artificial intelligence and trans-humanism — the third bridge is actually a part of his concept of when human beings will transcend their biology.
publication: Mess and Noise
story title: New York state of mind
author: by Darren Levin
date: April 22, 2010
quote: from Paul Dempsey
bio: singer + song-writer
The Ramona in the song is actually supposed to be this kind of artificial intelligence and the 3rd bridge is — there’s this guy Ray Kurzweil who has all these wacky ideas about paths to artificial intelligence and trans-humanism and the 3rd bridge is actually a part of his concept of when human beings will transcend their biology.
— Paul Dempsey
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Wikipedia | Something for Kate
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Photo of the group Something for Kate: Paul Dempsey, Clint Hyndman, Stephanie Ashworth
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Portrait of musician, singer + song-writer Paul Dempsey.
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