"Chris Marker was the first, the first geek, the first programmer, the one who dove into computers, graphics cards, PEEKs and POKEs, who took a bite out of the apples of Alan (Turing) and Steve (Jobs and Wozniak). ... This is the story of a man, his screens, his machines and his languages. It is also our story, that of computers and of thought: Do machines think? And the story of an unrealized dream from the 1980s, a utopia developed out of AI." -- Poptronics, 2013 in https://kubicki.org/letters/the-festival-of-the-machines/
The festival of the machines — Pirate Utopia

In the 1980s, filmmaker Chris Marker built a chatbot called Dialector. His life and work offer an uncanny lens on AI, language models, authorship, and memory.

Stefan Kubicki