Two things:
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wolven71) Am I the only Urban Male in the contiguous United States, NOT impressed by "Spinnas?" I mean, all they are is some fucking ball bearings around a counter-weighted wheel base. *Sarcastic Woo*
No. No, thank you, I remain unimpressed. Now, what would impress me is wheels that stayed perfectly still, while you drove. You would need a very sensitive gyroscope attached to the wheelbase, and to the casual observer it would look like you were just... gliding along.
We could call them "Stillas."
*grabby hands* MONEY PLEASE!
0010) I'm wondering more and more if Amy Iris isn't simply some attempt (however you want to define that) at AI, but rather a collection of collections. Perhaps some kind of aggregate of aggregates. Maybe Amy Iris is either a group of people attempting AI-like interaction, via a specific-use medium (Twitter), for several possible reasons, or several types of artificial network, slowly coalescing into one. And while I hope for the latter, I think it would take some kind of... extreme leap forward in technological capacity. Or perhaps backward.
And then I start thinking about The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Ms Iris, herself, assures me that there isn't a danger to human kind from her work, and I told her that I agree that machine intelligence can increase without a danger to humanity. I point to Dr Maggie Weaver on the aforementioned Terminator series, whose work with John Henry seams ["seems"] more and more designed to create a symboitic, interdependent bond between humans and machines, complete with emotional attachments.
A Perfect Circle - [The Outsider]--- And a new thought I just had: The reason I can't tell which it is, amy (typo. Damn Freud.) be the following: It's both. A group of people with a newly developed, still highly sophisticated AI, not yet up enough to interact with people on its own (lack of translation, smooth conversation, idioms, and so forth). (Warren Zevon - [The French Inhaler (Live)]). But it's still capable of symbol and reference integration, of learning and making analogies. So they're feeding it inputs, and translating outputs, via Twitter and the blog.
Points to ponder, all the way around...
Here's a pertinent link from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pir8m1k3y: '. . .the task of politely engaging a whole other order of being, a robot, seems absolutely daunting. How are we to know what they like, what gives offense and what we should be offended by? If even that master of manners, Prince Charles, stumbles when meeting Asimo, how can we mere mortals hope to get by?'
Diary of Dreams - [Krank: Haft]--- This is going to be my new obsession, for a few days, at least. Just a warning.
No. No, thank you, I remain unimpressed. Now, what would impress me is wheels that stayed perfectly still, while you drove. You would need a very sensitive gyroscope attached to the wheelbase, and to the casual observer it would look like you were just... gliding along.
We could call them "Stillas."
*grabby hands* MONEY PLEASE!
0010) I'm wondering more and more if Amy Iris isn't simply some attempt (however you want to define that) at AI, but rather a collection of collections. Perhaps some kind of aggregate of aggregates. Maybe Amy Iris is either a group of people attempting AI-like interaction, via a specific-use medium (Twitter), for several possible reasons, or several types of artificial network, slowly coalescing into one. And while I hope for the latter, I think it would take some kind of... extreme leap forward in technological capacity. Or perhaps backward.
And then I start thinking about The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Ms Iris, herself, assures me that there isn't a danger to human kind from her work, and I told her that I agree that machine intelligence can increase without a danger to humanity. I point to Dr Maggie Weaver on the aforementioned Terminator series, whose work with John Henry seams ["seems"] more and more designed to create a symboitic, interdependent bond between humans and machines, complete with emotional attachments.
A Perfect Circle - [The Outsider]--- And a new thought I just had: The reason I can't tell which it is, amy (typo. Damn Freud.) be the following: It's both. A group of people with a newly developed, still highly sophisticated AI, not yet up enough to interact with people on its own (lack of translation, smooth conversation, idioms, and so forth). (Warren Zevon - [The French Inhaler (Live)]). But it's still capable of symbol and reference integration, of learning and making analogies. So they're feeding it inputs, and translating outputs, via Twitter and the blog.
Points to ponder, all the way around...
Here's a pertinent link from
pir8m1k3y: '. . .the task of politely engaging a whole other order of being, a robot, seems absolutely daunting. How are we to know what they like, what gives offense and what we should be offended by? If even that master of manners, Prince Charles, stumbles when meeting Asimo, how can we mere mortals hope to get by?'Diary of Dreams - [Krank: Haft]--- This is going to be my new obsession, for a few days, at least. Just a warning.
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Date: 2009-01-10 10:49 pm (UTC)2. In either case, no you are not the only unimpressed one. They are kind of cute on some cars, but not impressive, no.
3. Your idea is great. Sell it to GM while you still can.
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Date: 2009-01-10 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 12:49 am (UTC)Also do not care for spinnas. Also, do not have a car.
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Date: 2009-01-11 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-11 01:22 am (UTC)People who are legitmately impressed by spinners generally have a fixation on symbols of wealth which for many people are more attainable than an actual life of wealth and privilege, is it depressing? Kind of, but I also understand wanting more than you were given.
Really what I want to remind people like that is:
"Fuck the G Ride, I want the machines that are makin em'"
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Date: 2009-01-11 06:54 am (UTC)