[ExI] elon says this isn't cgi

[William Flynn Wallace]

For nursing home patients, you would give them a questionnaire and find out
their interests outside the home (you might want to stay away from things
they can no longer do:  cooking, gardening). Then scan the web for news of
that sort and have the bot bring it up conversationally.  For some people
that would contain a lot of information to discuss.  The bot could search
during conversations for reactions in Facebook ,Twitter etc. - polls,
maybe, telling what people think.  Of course you would load it with family
info and pictures so they could look at their family anytime they wanted.
That's a good start, I think.  bill w

On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 2:50 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *Cool thanks for the ideas Mike.*
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> *>…*covid lockdown of the facility, my mom was not allowed entry so was
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> Doh!  Sorry to hear, hope it opens again soon.  Out here the isolation of
> the nursing home patients has no clear end in sight.
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> >…There are privacy issues (HIPAA as well as colloquial "privacy") but it
> could be a powerful tool to make remote presence more
> visceral/embodied/immersive than the current camera+mic setup we're using…
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> Ja, your idea (I think) is to use a simulated Zoom meeting where the
> avatar is animated but looks like a 3D meat-world person?  Or did I
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> Computer graphics hipsters, how close are we to having animation good
> enough to pass for a person on a Zoom window?
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> Privacy: ja I don’t know what to do there.  Good point.
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> >…The barrier to listen-bot (which may well be alexa in a teddy ruxpin) is
> that nobody will talk to it any more than they've ever talked to an
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> I disagree sir.  Plenty of us poured out our hearts to Eliza back in the
> 70s, knowing full well we were talking to ourselves.  This would be better
> than Eliza in a way: it could call on encyclopedic knowledge of the world
> thru the internet and it could remember stuff we told it last time.
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> >…I think the solution is that the device must be conversational…
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> Ja.  A critical design feature is that it would remember what we told it
> last time.  Then we start telling the same story a second time, it could
> decide to listen again or have it ask questions, knowing where the
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> >…This is where I know the GPT-n and some text to speach is probably "good
> enough" for a viable product.   However, if this project is an excuse to
> get started, the "getting to know you" bot could build a knowledgebase...
> and the telepresence operator interface could navigate those topics...
> imagine if the next caregiver can enter a room and continue conversation
> where the last caregiver left (with AI providing fill-in conversation in
> the interim)
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> A lot to digest in that one paragraph.  Consider the terabytes of inane
> “conversation” available on teen chat sites.  Perhaps we could set up
> something that would somehow mine and catalog the terabytes of inane
> conversation on ExI and MENSA, then feed that back to the user.  That
> sounds kinda cool, and certainly a good reason to archive our inane
> conversations here: a data source for future chatbots.
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> Lotsa good stuff in your post Mike, thanks.  I am the scarecrow from
> Wizard of Oz: I would get on this and figure it out if I only had a brain.
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