RoboThespian I am a Machine

RoboThespian demonstrates his acting skills - moving from robotic to fluid and emotional.
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[eb1zzle]

@lakersmaster and kadaj2172 -- This is not AI. This is just a program that is being run. Although its capabilities may include some autonomy, we are decades away from the type of AI that could emulate emotion or free thinking.

[EngineeredArts]

humans are 'programmed' too - it takes about 5 years before you act something like this, and probably another 10 to perfect it.

What is key is the ability intelligent mix and reuse 'learned' patterns - which we are working on now.

[eb1zzle]

Thats just it though.. its pattern based. That is not true sentience. Even a well written program can take learned patterns as input and make decisions based on them. But the human mind is so much more - its conscious, free thinking - which is not pattern based. Emulating this involves breaking down the brain to pure mathematics so it can be emulated in software. But we know so little about how it functions that it would be impossible to describe its operation to a conventional computer.

[EngineeredArts]

There is a cricket that has 6 nurons in its brain - it recognises a mates call from a distance and finds the mate - how?

A: its 'ears' are physically tuned to only hear the pitch of the mates 'call'

B: left 'ear' is wired to right leg, and visa versa.

Don't assume complexity when simplicty will work.

[eb1zzle]

A cricket is not a sentient being and is not intelligent. As you pointed out, its brain is very simple and thus its capabilities are simple. It has just enough brain power for making simple decisions, using pre-programmed inputs (aka "instinct") to interact with its environment. We can in fact already emulate this in computers. But the human brain is the most highly evolved adaptation in the animal kingdom. Can you show me an equation that summarizes its billions of functions?

[EngineeredArts]

Interesting discussion we could go on for years...

I think the key point for me is that the robot raised the question - of course he dosn't answer it :-)

[GreenTeaGringo]

They built David Cameron in the same lab.

[BluDrgn426]

robot apocalypse or zombie apocalypse. Either way, grab a shotgun.

Now if it becomes a robotic-zombie apocalypse, then we're fucked. Only Raptor-Jesus' second coming can save us!

[SimoneAbi09]

@eb1zzle AI is no longer meant to be "state of the art".

[cacaman15]

I got scared when the toaster appeared.

[Josephjoel3]

@eb1zzle First of I am going to be controversial and say that there will never be an AI. There are only going to be programs that get better at mimicking human actions. You see, we as human beings don't even know what intelligence is or whether we are intelligent. In my analysis I say there is no intelligence at all or else humans would not have fallen for such nonsense such as politics or religion or science fads. The only distinction between a robot and a human is the hardware, cells vs wire

[FilitosCDM]

In 20 years this will be trash

[RyouuichiKun15]

@eb1zzle

hey a year has passed

did something change?

[Smeire1]

This should be combined with Watson.

[RJMazz]

Watch out so those Evil Robot Rebellion Sci Fi Movies doesn't comes true, eh, guys?

Good work out there, anyway. Now we must aim to perfecting sentience. And eh, making the robot look a bit more like Gundam Wing would be cool too, tee-hee.

[paranorma1palace]

i just read nasa bought one of these from you guys, i like it, but i hve to wonder wtf nasa couldnt make thier own lol

[JonathanSeagullUtube]

@eb1zzle we are 1 decade (at most) from AI that will emulate emotion / free thinking.

[Teabahgeue]

Alastair Reynolds has concepts for varying degrees of A.I. I feel will be the direction we go with computers and humans integrating, if it were to ever happen.

A Beta Personality is one where a computer watches your mannerisms, speech patterns, etc. and crafts a limited simulation that can decently recreate you, but has limitations.

An Alpha personality is created by having a person's brain scanned and copied, destroying that brain in the process. The result is Digital Immortality.