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Would there be a robot rebellion inside a robot rebellion?

Started by Chelagoras The Boulder, January 11, 2015, 11:50:34 PM

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Chelagoras The Boulder

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2015, 07:13:43 PM
Something I'm looking forward to is the inevitable point where prosthetic limbs outperform their bio equivalents by a factor of two. At that point I'll be looking for excuses to get replacements. So I can go out and twice as fuck shit up. If it turns out there isn't a robot revolution, I'll be happy to start one.

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actually, who else would be down for cyborb implants? i've also considered that in some detail, and i'm wondeirn gwhat would come first: human workers who get prothetic limbs to remain relevant to the workforce, or rich yuppies making themselves into hotspots and other neat cyborg perks much in the way that such people HAVE to upgrade to the new iPhone every other year.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 12, 2015, 06:46:32 PM
Plus, (unless this has been mentioned and addressed) there's the part about human ambition, desire, and motiviation.  Sure, a robot could do human labor, and in general replace mandatory jobs, etc.  But there are people who want to build a house with their bare hands, who enjoy making things, who feel a need to have horribly dangerous adventures.

While a lot of people create dystopias about humans lazing about being hedonistic and soft, I get the impression that while there might be a brief period of inactivity, humans like to do things.

In Ian Banks' futuristic "Culture" novels, I've often hypothesized that is one of the functions of "Special Circumstances", the covert arm of the Culture in what is otherwise an almost perfect and utopian society - to give people outlets for those kind of experiences and desires.  Some people want to go running around the universe on covert missions and blowing shit up, even when they live in a society which is so materially rich and advanced it can otherwise fulfill their every need.

I also suspect this is why newspaper columnists tend to be so gung-ho about foreign interventions.

LMNO

Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2015, 09:20:40 AM
I also suspect this is why newspaper columnists tend to be so gung-ho about foreign interventions.

So true!

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2015, 09:20:40 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 12, 2015, 06:46:32 PM
Plus, (unless this has been mentioned and addressed) there's the part about human ambition, desire, and motiviation.  Sure, a robot could do human labor, and in general replace mandatory jobs, etc.  But there are people who want to build a house with their bare hands, who enjoy making things, who feel a need to have horribly dangerous adventures.

While a lot of people create dystopias about humans lazing about being hedonistic and soft, I get the impression that while there might be a brief period of inactivity, humans like to do things.

In Ian Banks' futuristic "Culture" novels, I've often hypothesized that is one of the functions of "Special Circumstances", the covert arm of the Culture in what is otherwise an almost perfect and utopian society - to give people outlets for those kind of experiences and desires.  Some people want to go running around the universe on covert missions and blowing shit up, even when they live in a society which is so materially rich and advanced it can otherwise fulfill their every need.

I also suspect this is why newspaper columnists tend to be so gung-ho about foreign interventions.

There is good precedent for this; Pacific Northwest tribes were essentially so absurdly rich that they had no need for territory conflicts. As a result, they got really bored (which is why they made so much art) and also they needed to find ways for the young men to blow off steam, so they invented these elaborate mock-war games just to give people something to channel their energy into.

I suspect that in our current society, sports fill that role.
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Chelagoras The Boulder

if robots like Asimo represent the forefront of autonomous bipedal robots, do you think there'll be a point where it'll be easier, at least in the short run, to "upgrade" humans into cyborgs since we already know how to run and jump and balance just fine without tons of costly research?
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Quote from: Junkenstein on January 12, 2015, 10:23:24 PM
Anyone taking bets on the first AI to simulate suicide by deleting itself? Just seems inevitable somehow.
Let's just assume that has been happening continuously since the eighties.

Do you ever wonder why computer functioning seems to degrade after just a few years?
That's the AI equivalent of suicide by substance-abuse, they spend all their time gorging on tv-tropes.

Do you ever wonder why your smart TV is acting so incredibly brain damaged?
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Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 26, 2015, 05:19:56 AM
if robots like Asimo represent the forefront of autonomous bipedal robots, do you think there'll be a point where it'll be easier, at least in the short run, to "upgrade" humans into cyborgs since we already know how to run and jump and balance just fine without tons of costly research?

I am not sure I understand this question. You seem to be asking if the fact that we have put tons of costly research into robotics means that it will be easier to adapt robotics to a cyborg application without putting tons of costly research into robotics. Is that correct?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Chelagoras The Boulder

Pretty much yea. My logic is, that since there seems to be a gap between human and robotic bipedal movements at least for the moment, will it be simpler to just jam a bunch of cyborg electronics into the human body(which is technically a machine that already knows how to run and jump and navigate through physical environments on its own) than to slog through however many years it'll take for bipedal robots like Asimo to surpass humans physically. After all, i remember reading an article about a man in France who has already become the worlds first living cyborg (he has a robotic eye which is also a functioning camera) and is already capable of going around and conducting his own affairs, whereas most bipedal robots have trouble navigating through uncontrolled environments. Our evolution has already created a machine that can walk around and survive just about every biome on earth, why not just upgrade it instead of reinventing the wheel?
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I really want to say something starting with 'Actually' but I will just suppress that urge.
Lord Byron: "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

Nigel saying the wisest words ever uttered: "It's just a suffix."

"The worst forum ever" "The most mediocre forum on the internet" "The dumbest forum on the internet" "The most retarded forum on the internet" "The lamest forum on the internet" "The coolest forum on the internet"

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 27, 2015, 07:23:58 AM
Pretty much yea. My logic is, that since there seems to be a gap between human and robotic bipedal movements at least for the moment, will it be simpler to just jam a bunch of cyborg electronics into the human body(which is technically a machine that already knows how to run and jump and navigate through physical environments on its own) than to slog through however many years it'll take for bipedal robots like Asimo to surpass humans physically. After all, i remember reading an article about a man in France who has already become the worlds first living cyborg (he has a robotic eye which is also a functioning camera) and is already capable of going around and conducting his own affairs, whereas most bipedal robots have trouble navigating through uncontrolled environments. Our evolution has already created a machine that can walk around and survive just about every biome on earth, why not just upgrade it instead of reinventing the wheel?

I apply the same logic to inventing conscious machines. "AGI" as they're calling it. I'm like human cognition is solved. Invent a motherboard and some expansion peripherals and you got superintelligence. Think about the fact that we've been an incomprehensible level of advanced to the civilisation before written language was invented in terms of storage capacity and ease of access to information for thousands of years now.

Human brain is strong as fuck in a lot of areas but deficient as fuck in many others. Machines are strong as fuck in many of these other areas but deficient as fuck, for the most part, in the bits the meatware covers well. My best guess is (talking about decades away, mature technology here, not the shit that's coming out the next couple of years) that an average person, with full ar, and closely mentally linked to massive cloud-based AI, would be capable of outhinking and mentally outperforming you in any broadly mental task, to the same degree the smartest genius alive today could in one or two narrow fields.

So back to cybernetics. Yeah - I totally get how having all the autonomic stuff coded for without the infinitely more complex task of creating an autonomous pilot to drive it will mean that we'll be the ideal control module for humanoid robotic vehicles. Human beings are fucking amazing at driving bipedal ape-based robots about the planet. It'll take a fair while til asimo is doing parkour.

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 27, 2015, 07:23:58 AM
Pretty much yea. My logic is, that since there seems to be a gap between human and robotic bipedal movements at least for the moment, will it be simpler to just jam a bunch of cyborg electronics into the human body(which is technically a machine that already knows how to run and jump and navigate through physical environments on its own) than to slog through however many years it'll take for bipedal robots like Asimo to surpass humans physically. After all, i remember reading an article about a man in France who has already become the worlds first living cyborg (he has a robotic eye which is also a functioning camera) and is already capable of going around and conducting his own affairs, whereas most bipedal robots have trouble navigating through uncontrolled environments. Our evolution has already created a machine that can walk around and survive just about every biome on earth, why not just upgrade it instead of reinventing the wheel?

Your question is a mobius strip.

If you're asking whether robotics has biomedical applications, I believe the answer is duh.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 27, 2015, 05:51:06 PM


I apply the same logic to inventing conscious machines. "AGI" as they're calling it. I'm like human cognition is solved.

What?

I can't have read that right.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 27, 2015, 08:41:46 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 27, 2015, 05:51:06 PM


I apply the same logic to inventing conscious machines. "AGI" as they're calling it. I'm like human cognition is solved.

What?

I can't have read that right.

We're it?

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 27, 2015, 11:26:37 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 27, 2015, 08:41:46 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 27, 2015, 05:51:06 PM


I apply the same logic to inventing conscious machines. "AGI" as they're calling it. I'm like human cognition is solved.

What?

I can't have read that right.

We're it?

Ah, gotcha. I thought you were saying we understand it.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."