[ExI] ai emotions

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 19:57:14 UTC 2019


I told Spike about Ted Chiang's new collection of stories and maybe some of
you read his stuff.  A long, 110 page story is about software and AIs as
pets and more -book is Exhalation.   bill w

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 2:41 PM Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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