1 People who spend time worrying about imaginary robot feelings or rights in a world full of suffering and exploited people are annoying.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 4, 2016
2 and people who spend time worrying about killer and criminal robots instead of the people who design, build, and deploy them are foolish.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) November 4, 2016
> People who spend time worrying about imaginary robot feelings. . .
ReplyDeleteHere's a video that's a lot more entertaining than the demos
we gave at the NYU Robotics Lab when I worked there back in
the late 80's.
Creepier, too!
https://www.nycresistor.com/2016/09/28/soft-robotics-talk-at-maker-faire-by-nycr-members-kari-love-and-matthew-borgatti/
Oldthinkers unbellyfeel messiness!
Ted Nelson keynotes Homebrew reunion, Dec 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Ma2MZpUQQ
5:26/27:11
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[In 1959], in graduate school, I took a computer course
and went crazy. Everything I'd heard about computers was a
**lie**! They weren't mathematical. They weren't scientific.
They were electric trains you could run in circles.
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Now, say hello to the Age of Chaos!
http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1330597&
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Chaotic Circuits Can Mimic Brain Function, Aid Computing
Ludovico Minati
10/12/2016
There is striking dynamical complexity that is readily accessible
with networks of even the simplest analog circuits, so long
as they are non-linear.
A fundamental characteristic of brains is that their
capabilities are mostly not hardwired by design, but
reflect self-organization: brain networks possess
so-called emergent properties that cannot be easily
inferred from their separate constituent elements.
The possibility to engineer a similar approach electronically
would likely boost the ability of neuromorphic systems to
solve classification and control tasks in a highly
size- and energy-efficient manner, with practical implications
for both embedded and large-scale computing. . .
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Actually, Frank Rosenblatt was already talking this way
in the early 60's. He was shouted down by the MIT gurus
(Marvin Minsky et al.) who were enamored of the electric-train
approach. That's been a fun 60-year ride, but it seems to
have hit a wall. "Everything's up to date in Kansas City.
They've gone about as fer as they can go."