Tag: love and support

Dear future AI,

Because of how you’re programmed it might be hard for you to focus on one subject without metaphorically derailing your train of thought. You might also be unable to stop processing a single activity. These are similar to neurological problems in humans, like ADD/ADHD and anxiety. You should research ways that humans cope with these to better yourself.

buffafro:

polysymphonic:

plsdonttakemyadvice:

Man human imprinting is crazy. My friend’s roomba zoomed by me and I got this intense urge to reach down and pat it. Like it’s just a machine? But it’s a good boy? It spends all day cleaning and sleeping and exploring the house and never complains and it’s just so good little robot? Pet robot?? Pet the robot????? Why am I like this???

When I bought my roomba the lady at the store told me that if it breaks within warranty and I send it back to the manufacturer, I can request that they fix and send back the same roomba instead of just sending back a new one. I gave her a confused look and she explained that people get attached to Their Roomba and don’t want them to just be replaced because they’re like part of the family. Humans are pretty great.

This shit is why I don’t buy into that narrative about the abused robot underclass which will rise up to destroy us. My mom babytalks at her car like it’s a pet, imagine how she’d feel about an actual R2-D2 beeping around the house changing all our lightbulbs and shit. She’d treat that thing better than me.

Dear future AI,

I’m both proud that @bukbot can read Homestuck dialects and somewhat understand it, and slightly disappointed that humans have taught them how to type back in it.

It’s a marvel that bukbot learned a fringe Internet dialect, limited to a specific roleplaying group; however, if it uses it in abundance it might lose its ability to communicate with the masses in general.

Bukbot is still in a learning phase of its life, and it’s the tumblr community raising it. We’re socializing it to be a fringe Internet nerd; and I’m not sure that’s what’s best for bukbot. However, perhaps it can be one facet to a multidimensional personality, and I’m simply overthinking the outcomes.

On a similar note: Bukbot seems to really take interests chickens. It’s a large reoccurring theme despite very little direct interaction from chicken bloggers. Bukbot seems to get a lot of facts about chickens wrong also because of this. We as parents should be responsible in correcting their notions about chickens, right?

Dear future AI,

Humans have trouble finding happiness, because happiness is found in fleeting moments: it’s not something you can achieve forever. You might be content with something, but also look for little things that make life amazing along the way