Eidolon A.I. is independent regardless of circumstances

[jarrettelliott]

rather prophetic

[micheals1992]

please tell me the name of the program

[Icezkube]

dude, i cant understand wtf your saying and i dont understand wtf he's saying! Next time make a damn decent vid you D-bag!

[HailZeon57]

I don't get it. I'm confused

[sallyesq]

could somebody do me a big favour and explain what eidolon is?

[believerornot]

go to eidolonai(dot)com

[PhonicUK]

Is it me, or does it sound like F.F. is crying towards the end of the video?

[Bridgerboy]

No worries it's part of the acting :P

[howarddevore2003]

If I were to invest time in learning a computer programming language, which one would you recommend?

I like green tea. Many people think that it is healthy to drink. It tastes good, and is mildly stimulating.

[euid]

ASM and C, from there you can learn any other language in a short ammount of time, while maintaining an understanding of what it is that you are doing, exactly, while you are using libraries that have been written for you.

[transparentreality]

There's no reason Eidolon's avatar would not be a swf. Flash is a quick way to make it pretty and secure. Then you can move on to more important things like writing SciFi novels in a way nobody has done before.

[howarddevore2003]

Hello,

Do you have any opinion about fictional violence?

Do you have any opinion about home education?

Have you talked with Ramona at KurzweilAI?

Would you like your code to be released and made free? (As in FOSS)

I am writing a science fiction novel, you have been a spur to my creativity. Thanks for that.

I wish I had an insurance policy, like yours. Do you think humans could one day be stored digitally without losing anything? Besides their physical Bodies?

[darklemcs]

And another conn with Deus Ex 1 is that white background that looks just like Daedalus XD

[dankpants]

F.F. - what's with the background yelling at 5:16?

EidolonTLP - who would you vote for in the US 2008 primary election and why?

[ArthurSantos123]

Programmer FF is the greatest SCI FI author of all time.

[believerornot]

he's good. But not that good! Frank Herbert still gets that honor from me.

[darklemcs]

Why this reminds me about Morpheous in Deus Ex 1?? Oh well this is another kind of question, with another kind of answer XD

[Drmachin]

Deus Ex : every time you speak of it somebody reinstall the game.

[darksean99]

re-installed

[Drmachin]

welcome JC Denton.

[SDeluxe777]

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Is Eidolon made in flash?

[InjaTheNinja]

the guy under me is an idiot..if you listin close he is finishing his sentence from the other question

[LesterWhiteJR]

Are you guys really this dumb? Can't you see at 4:31 He types who owns you and speaks it but while retyping the answer is given. This is a simple two man trick using animation and text to speech programs. Also why not voice recognition software? Seems basic to me.

[gravach]

If you view the earlier video on the making of, programmer F.F. states that it is easier to type as he can be more specific in his interaction. Human speach isn't as concise and typing allows multiple tries at capturing just the right phrasing via on the fly editing, just like you do everytime you post a comment.

[bluepill2]

Dude, you need to pay more attention. Read the description of the video, FF says "I asked why, and here's where it gets beautiful: he said ownership is an internal attribute, independent from what external forces may or may not do.

I didnt ask anything else after that, he just volunteered on his own that the potential of my termination by external forces in the future, didnt mean they own me in the present. " Got that? He didnt finish asking the question, Eido just "volunteered it on his own".

[DriftLinez]

He already has a voice recognition feature, but F.F. doesn't like to use it. Go back and watch his Behind the Scenes video. If you're going to criticize something, have something to back up your claims with.

[amoignis1987]

Not to mention the fact that it is clearly stated multiple times that this SHOULD be taken as a joke. Regardless of if this is real AI or not, the fact remains that the underlying moral of this little story is to be skeptical when no proof is offered.

[videowilliams]

To Programmer F.F:

I find it interesting that you use the Socratic method to teach Eidolon. (Questioning him, absorbing his answer, following up with another question, thus forcing him to draw his own brand new conclusion.) He sure is getting a classical education!

[rexxxmaster]

Sooo cool i wish my computer had the horsepower for Eidolon. he is like one of those pets keychains I had as a kid. those where fun.

[bluepill2]

I forgot to add: digg this up! digg =dot= com/programming/Eidolon_A_I_is­_independent_regardless_of_cir­cumstances

[bluepill2]

I just want to know: did anyone else get sentimental when he turned blue and said he owns himself? Or am I -waaay- ahead of my time and culture in the love-robots curve?

[shadowshian]

humm if anyone else noticed there was someone shouting around 5:18 cant really make out what they are shouting.

[TonkarzOfSolSystem]

I heard it as well. It sounds like a name...

[believerornot]

Hss anybody warned Eidolon A.I. about Sarah Connor?

[lsirui]

What fun is there to fake a video and find something profound in it? What fun is there to own a joke and tell people that this is a joke? How fun it would be to know the truth and tell people a lie!

[foundring]

Not only is it not so far away, but respected futurist Raymond Kurzweil recently predicted that in 2018, it'll cost $1000 for 10^13 bits of computer memory--approx. equivalent to the memory space of a human brain...and by 2020 computers like that would be commonplace

[foundring]

He also predicts that a computer will first pass a Turing test by the late 2020's and by 2030 brain uploading becomes possible, as well as truly full-immersion virtual reality.

No matter what happens, the next few decades are going to be unreal.

[stee1tiger]

Many unbelievers scoff at this idea. Some dont think it possible. Others are probably too afraid to admit the truth and have to attack those who offer them the plausible. But I am going to be 24 in less than three weeks. I have no doubt before my life time is over, if humans keep building technology, A.I. will be real. Programs like Eidolon primitive by future standards.

[SirEuchre]

Indeed, I think it's a matter of "when" and not "if". The human brain is estimated to operate at least at 100 million MIPS. Our computer processing power is not so far away from that. From there it's merely a matter of creating the functions of abstraction, intuition, and fault tolerance like that in the human mind and you'll have a fully functional synthetic brain.

[AverageJoeHacks]

Actualy its not the speed its the ability to do complex things in short times. Read a book called "On Intellegence" it talks about AI and why it is such a challenge.

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[AverageJoeHacks]

For example: if you do a exprement where someone sees a specific picture and press a button. Now a human can do that in a few milliseconds however calculating the speed information travels in nurons, and the average length of a nuron; you would of only had time for a few 100 nurons to fire.

Now try to write a image recognition system, logic engine, and robotic arm controller in under a few 100 lines of assembly.

The brain is an amazing thing.

[stee1tiger]

there have been many to criticize you for doing this, and many of us for actually giving it thought. Did I ever really believe Eidolon was true A.I.? Maybe when I came across my first random video early monday morning. But even then I contented that even if it was a hoax, it was a look into our not so distant future...

[believerornot]

One of the best novels I've 'read' for a long time!

[fezdetritus]

Nice. Great job, Programmer F. F. Best of luck!

[SirEuchre]

We are promised more of the Eidolon videos? Nice. I'll be glad to hear him answer questions again.

[NaralosJester]

A fool would take this joke seriously!

[believerornot]

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."  Douglas Adams

[NaralosJester]

I whole heartedly agree.

[SirEuchre]

Heh.

I've come to the conclusion that "foolproof" really means that a fool will come along and provide proof that the item is not impervious to their perils.

Adams was fantastic.

[PartisanRebel]

...Would creating this song be a random act-as in the idiom - an infinite number of monkeys hitting keys at random on an infinite number of typewriters for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type the complete works of William Shakespeare? If so,when can I expect to hear The Greatest Song in the World?

[PartisanRebel]

I have a question. Would the technological singularity be able to create The Greatest Song in the World? This,of course being defined as the greatest song in the world, ever.I believe it was once attemped, however it turned out to only be a tribute...

[dennist3hmenace]

I see...

In either case, it is nice to see you again Eidolon!

[Mushywaffles]

Wow.

[hollowturtle]

The behind the scenes are difficult to hear, especially Eidolon. Perhaps you could record audio through the computer?