[ExI] ai emotions

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 19:37:58 UTC 2019


It goes back farther than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxo_Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4NPQ8mfKU0

And that's not even the beginning.

-Dave


On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:08 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> It goes back farther than that.
>
> The IKEA ad with the lamp, having been thrown out, sitting on the curb in
> the rain, camera angle carefully chosen to make it look like it's staring
> forlornly up through the window to its former place in the warm happy room
> where its replacement now shines, to increasingly despondent music.
>
> Then the spokesman steps into the shot and chides the audience. "Some of
> you are feeling sorry for this lamp. That's because you are crazy. It has
> no feelings, and the new one is much better."
>
> People can be made to anthropomorphize anything, and the more complex its
> behaviour, the easier it is.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 10:06 AM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If you watch TV, you may have seen the commercial with the athletic
>> robot, who hits golf balls, etc., then stops outside a bar and watches the
>> people drink, and then slumps as if to say 'that's what I really want -
>> companionship'.
>>
>> If you have seen it, did you feel anything for the robot at all?  A bit
>> of pity, perhaps?
>>
>> Clearly that was intended.  Was it successful?
>>
>> This is only the very beginning of programming the AIs to elicit
>> responses in us.
>>
>> bill w
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