Robotics (65)
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- The Atlantic
- 2019
A book proposes we let robots do all of Earth’s physical labor, creating a world where virtually all human needs are met, in this new ideology called Fully Automated Luxury Communism, or FALC. This is modeled after certain fictions such as Star Trek.
- The Atlantic
- 2019
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- The Atlantic
- 2019
Give Us Fully Automated Luxury Communism
A book proposes we let robots do all of Earth’s physical labor, creating a world where virtually all human needs are met, in this new ideology called Fully Automated Luxury Communism, or FALC. This is modeled after certain fictions such as Star Trek.
Do you think the FALC ideology is tangibly possible? Which potential problems do you see in its implementation? If robots become advanced enough to become what are essentially human actors, can they be expected to complete all of the world’s labor without compensation?
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- 7 min
- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
Autonomous vehicles could be subject to hacks by adversarial machine-learning, possibly perpetrated by out-of-work truck/Uber drivers and “adversarial machine learning”. The fact that vehicle algorithms can already be fairly easily tricked also raises concerns.
- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
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- MIT Technology Review
- 2019
Hackers Are the Real Obstacle for Self-Driving Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles could be subject to hacks by adversarial machine-learning, possibly perpetrated by out-of-work truck/Uber drivers and “adversarial machine learning”. The fact that vehicle algorithms can already be fairly easily tricked also raises concerns.
Had you considered this big obstacle in self-driving? How would this risk impact the business of self-driving vehicles? What are the consequences of companies not fully understanding the machine algorithms that they use? Should we use self-driving vehicles when this threat stands?
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- 6 min
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- 2018
Through a series of interactions on a chat and a truth-or-dare type game, the user guesses if they are chatting with a bot or human.
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- 2018
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- n/a
- 2018
Bot or Not?
Through a series of interactions on a chat and a truth-or-dare type game, the user guesses if they are chatting with a bot or human.
Are you able to tell the difference between interacting with a bot or human? How? What indicators did you rely on to make your decision?
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- 20 min
- UC Research Repository
- 2018
This 2018 study uses several experiments to demonstrate how human racial bias is imposed upon robots as well, specifically in that racialised black robots are more likely to be perceived as threatening to the group sampled.
- UC Research Repository
- 2018
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- 20 min
- UC Research Repository
- 2018
Robots and Racism
This 2018 study uses several experiments to demonstrate how human racial bias is imposed upon robots as well, specifically in that racialised black robots are more likely to be perceived as threatening to the group sampled.
Does robots having socially-constructed race happen inherently as robots become more humanoid? If so, could there be applications for robots to fight human racial bias? In general, could technology be a component in eradicating human biases?
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- Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press
- 1916
A brief excerpt on Pygmalion’s love for his “marble maiden,” which could be compared to the human creation of robots for companionship use.
- Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press
- 1916
Pygmalion and his Ivory Maid: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book X, lines 243-297.
A brief excerpt on Pygmalion’s love for his “marble maiden,” which could be compared to the human creation of robots for companionship use.
How does Pygmalion’s love for his “marble maiden” resemble the relationship some people have with advanced AI dolls or sex dolls? Can advanced AI dolls replace human companionship completely, or is there something inherently unique to our interactions? Venus gives life to Pygmalion’s maiden, so she could be argued to have a soul, but when humans give ‘life’ to advanced AI, is that similar or different to Pygmalion’s maiden? What does it mean to have consciousness if you can act and perform like a human in all capacities?
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- Kinolab
- 1982
Main Control Program, an Artificial Intelligence presence, has self-developed beyond the imagination of its creators and sets its sights on hacking global governments, including the pentagon. It believes that with its growing intelligence, it can rule better than any human can, and forces the hand of Dillinger, a human, to help move its hacking beyond corporations. Meanwhile, a team of hackers attempt to break into the mainframe of this system. When the rebel hacker Flynn attempts to hack into the mainframe of the MCP, he is drawn into the digital world of the computer which is under the dominion of the MCP. Sark, one of the digital beings who serves the MCP, is tasked with killing Flynn.
- Kinolab
- 1982
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- Kinolab
- 1982
Digital Hegemony in the Real and Virtual Worlds
Main Control Program, an Artificial Intelligence presence, has self-developed beyond the imagination of its creators and sets its sights on hacking global governments, including the pentagon. It believes that with its growing intelligence, it can rule better than any human can, and forces the hand of Dillinger, a human, to help move its hacking beyond corporations. Meanwhile, a team of hackers attempt to break into the mainframe of this system. When the rebel hacker Flynn attempts to hack into the mainframe of the MCP, he is drawn into the digital world of the computer which is under the dominion of the MCP. Sark, one of the digital beings who serves the MCP, is tasked with killing Flynn.
Is human anxiety over the potential for super-powered AI justified? Would things truly be better if machines and artificial intelligence made authoritative decisions as global actors and rulers?
What could be the implications of ‘teleporting’ into digital space in terms of alienation from the real world? For now, it seems that humans are in charge of computers in the “real” world; if humans were to enter a digital world, who would be in charge? Do AI beings owe subservience to humans for their creation, given their increasing intelligence?
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