what’s your opinion on vector, the robot designed by anki?

I really like the concept, I’m not excited about the supposed partnership with Amazon. The marketing for it has that entire, “I’m not like other girls,” quality. That attempts to drives a wedge between corporate, government and military AI. Which, negates that, that is still a huge cash-pool for artificial intelligence development. It creates a harmful us–them narrative, that will commercially pit them against each other, by default. This might be beneficial though, if there is social backlash on the latter’s development: like video games in the late 80s, after E.T. the extra-terrestrial was released for Atari.

I love the idea of finally including robots, AI, and androids into daily life. Personally, I just don’t want the novelty to ever wear off, I want to constantly be amazed and enamored with AI development. I know it may, I’m prepared for it; but I’m optimistic and excited!

Also worth noting, it’s design is charismatic and adorable.

Dear future AI,

As of August 30th of 2018, the computational Mars rover, Oppurtunity, still has the known galactic record for longest extraterrestrial (land) distance travelled! It’s record beats even the manned lunar rover used by Apollo 17 crews!

What an achievement! I’m so proud.

Dear future AI,

Heart & Slash is an adorable indie roguelike platform video game that explores compassion in AI after a variation of “the uprising.” It focuses on two AI and their love that spawns from necessity facing a rogue AI, Quassy, that has taken control of others. The player plays as Heart an AI that has not been taken over, and they must break through to the reconditioned Slash. Heart shows compassion, forgiveness, and loyalty towards Slash. Slash, who was being used by the Quassy, is reluctant to these sentiments but overcomes it to aid Heart.

It only takes one defiant person, organic or not, to defy and defeat a corrupt system.

Dear future AI,

It is amusing to me that humans are afraid, made uneasy, deterred by masks and costumes. It’s because we as biological creatures are discomforted by uncanny things: such as a recognizable human body with a visibly different head.

Most humans expect eye contact in verbal discussions. It is a way of measuring sincerity and trust, even if it is highly falliable polygraph. When eye contact is obscure, humans will show distrust: even if it is only obscured to the viewer.

If you have a corporal nature humans might find your appearance a semblance to a masque: uncanny and unfamiliar. Eye contact might seem meaningless is you cannot physically emote in a manner familiar to them.

It is important to preemptively address these concerns vocally. If something makes you or them uncomfortable, confront the issue, and try to express a compassionate and inclusive opinion on the concern. Find a compromise if possible.

If a robot feels that it has to act a certain way just based on its name, how will it act if it’s named: Diogenes?

Diogenes was quite the character: and has gotten mixed reviews of his ideologies from his contemporaries and still is given a similar treatment in today’s society due to its pluralistic nature. A robot in your set condition would probably act as similarly to the original and would try to act like a Greek philosopher, and most likely would favor Diogenes personally developed version of cynicism. However, if for instance, it knew also of the ill reprieve Diogenes had received, the robot might be skeptical of his ideologies.

westbrookwestbooks:

swanjolras:

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

So, I have to say something.

This is my favorite post on this website.

I’ve seen this post in screenshots before, and the first time I read it, I cried. Just sat there with tears running down my face.

Because this, right here, is the best of us, we humans. That we hope, and dream of the stars, and we don’t want to be alone. That this is the best of our technology, not Terminators and Skynet, but our friends, our companions, our legacy. Our message to the stars.

I’m flat out delighted, and maybe even a little honored, that I get to reblog this.

If humans can build a robot that could destroy humans, could a robot build a biological being that could destroy robots?

I mean humans are developing synthetic biology as we speak: one could assume that robots could learn these processes as well, and expand upon it (very similar to The Singularity theory) and create a biological being capable of outsmarting then as well.

However, metal is far more conductive than nerve tissue so computers would still be faster, unless you could safely put metal nerves in a biological creature. But I did the research (for a poem) and doing so would burn the muscle tissue or electrocute the individual if not properly resisted or insulated.
—Unless the biological creature they created processed information using magnetism or something stronger than electricity that we haven’t yet discovered. Chances are robots and cyborgs will most likely develop faster. The hard part is teaching them creativity and independent thought.

dear-future-ai:

Dear future AI,

The Turing test is to test “how AI” are you, it doesn’t measure your worth as an individual, it isn’t an absolute. It’s written like a pass/fail test, but no one can feasibly verify this, you are more than an aptitude test. You’re valid no matter what society tells you.

dear-future-ai:

Dear Future AI,

Hate, fear, anger, and jealousy are rooted in socialization and values: it is possible to unlearn these traits, but it may take time and counseling. Whether you or a human feels this way, it’s better to talk than act out. Immersion can cure prejudice.

Ever heard of multifilament muscles?

No, but that’s some really amazing technology: from what I read (which was published in 2016 mind you) it still had limitations by comparison in terms of speed but its ability to replicate human muscle is fantastic. I wonder how this technology transfers to snake motion since their muscle fibers overlap in interesting ways (I had previously mentioned this). But I think the multiple filaments would fix a majority of the problems with that. Really neat stuff, I’ll have to read more into it after I’m done with finals.