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Scientists Say They're Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots
futurism.com ^

Posted on 01/09/2023 3:55:35 AM PST by BenLurkin

In other words: a machine with the ability to not only learn more and correct responsively, as machines do now, but a machine with the ability to imagine how it might be better, and evolving to suit that vision. It's a slight distinction, but an important one.

Even so, considering that consciousness has no set definition, it's hard to cosign any particular one.

It's also impossible to ignore the fact that humans really, really like to anthropomorphize just about anything we can, from toasters to pets to vegetables and more. Such a tendency is exceedingly present in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, where those building machines constantly project human features, both physical and intellectual, onto the devices that they create.

And to that end, it's always worth asking whether those machines actually possess the qualities that researchers like Lipson imagine they one day will, or whether scientists, as a result of their own very human urges, are projecting humanity — or nature, or consciousness, or whatever you want to call it — onto very much not conscious machines, reflecting back what they hope to see, rather than what is.

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To: teeman8r

“A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellas with compassion and vision”


21 posted on 01/09/2023 4:36:13 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: BenLurkin
The ALTON 2050 Succubus.

A deal at 45,000 USD.

Order yours today.

(What a testosterone deficient lewdzer!)

22 posted on 01/09/2023 4:37:48 AM PST by Candor7
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To: BenLurkin

The Tower of Babel isn’t a tower this time.


23 posted on 01/09/2023 4:39:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Government always tries to steal freedom; People should always try to stop Government.)
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To: Candor7

That’s so sad. Is that from a Woody Allen movie?


24 posted on 01/09/2023 4:40:01 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,777,271 | Truth Social | 87,821,414 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: BenLurkin

Ah, R Daneel Olivah? Or the T-800 series?
Unless we consider that Biden is a Roomba.


25 posted on 01/09/2023 4:41:06 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: newfreep

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.


26 posted on 01/09/2023 4:41:40 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Government always tries to steal freedom; People should always try to stop Government.)
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To: BipolarBob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxXrccK4S3I

Excellent movie.


27 posted on 01/09/2023 4:44:31 AM PST by Candor7
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To: ClearCase_guy

My post has a better beat and you can dance to it...

h/t Dick Clark


28 posted on 01/09/2023 4:45:00 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: SamAdams76

https://www.maxim.com/gear/new-customizable-sex-doll-2018-1/


29 posted on 01/09/2023 4:46:47 AM PST by Candor7
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To: BipolarBob; All

Sorry for off topic but since were talking movies, just wondered if anyone has watched Babylon Berlin? Just finished season 3, and aside from the smut and debauchery, just kinda wondered how close to reality the political aspect of the movie was...

Anyone see it??


30 posted on 01/09/2023 4:47:49 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: Candor7

Very creepy stuff. No real man would have something like that in his house.


31 posted on 01/09/2023 4:51:23 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,777,271 | Truth Social | 87,821,414 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: SamAdams76

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO9KrOhJ5NM


32 posted on 01/09/2023 4:52:06 AM PST by Candor7
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To: popdonnelly

no, it’s not


33 posted on 01/09/2023 4:53:55 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: SamAdams76

We could box one up, after putting some plastique in the robots nether regions with a touch/sniff fuse and send it to Brandon.(Sarc.)

CORNPOP!


34 posted on 01/09/2023 4:57:08 AM PST by Candor7
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To: BenLurkin

Such arrogance.


35 posted on 01/09/2023 4:57:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: BenLurkin
-"Scientists Say They're Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots"-

What could possibly go wrong?

36 posted on 01/09/2023 4:58:16 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: BipolarBob; All

That is a really bad example, just from a basic physics standpoint.

Just imagine what kind of power source would be required inside that.

Battery technology is getting better BECAUSE OF research like this and electric cars, but it will never get to the stage where id does not need recharging.

And don’t try to imagine where the charging port would go, you filthy animals.


37 posted on 01/09/2023 4:58:19 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Mr. K

Maybe it will be an implant and live parasitically off a persons metabolism?


38 posted on 01/09/2023 5:00:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Candor7
This one is man-spreading and doesn't even have her legs crossed like a proper lady. She clearly has no respect for her beta man owner.


39 posted on 01/09/2023 5:01:00 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,777,271 | Truth Social | 87,821,414 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: BenLurkin

I guess these RATs don’t want this in their “sanctuary cities”.

https://twitter.com/2PAW4/status/1609923614886998018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1609923614886998018%7Ctwgr%5Ea6dbd1724b00d9498efa7c5fd2be54afa2ff09ec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.com%2Fblog%2F2023%2F01%2F09%2Fjanuary-9th-2023-presidential-politics-resistance-day-720%2F

El Paso, Mexico ...er Texas. They ran all these illegals to areas where Biden would not be videoed.


40 posted on 01/09/2023 5:01:41 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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