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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Hello Happiness
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/coca-colas-happiness-machines This article relates more to what Miguel had brought up earlier in class with the idea of Happiness Machines. It’s interesting to note how companies have taken to manipulating human emotions to market their products. That’s a pretty harsh … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Machine
For our contextualization day I looked more into the Ultimate Machine. It wasn’t quite as eerie as I had imagined it would be. I thought it would look more like a hand rising from a grave, kind of how many … Continue reading
“Buddhist Robot” and Lydia Liu
At first mention of the Buddhist robot and the fact that the goal of Buddhism is to reach an enlightened state, I immediately thought back to Isaac Asimov’s “Robot Dreams” in which the robot seems to reach another level of … Continue reading
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Artificial Paranoia/Turk
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/671/fall15/resources/colby_71.pdf The above article describes the state of paranoia and the abilities of the researchers to express it in an artificial robot. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2765.htm The above article gives a brief history of the Mechanical Turk and its implications. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/video-turking-for-respect The above … Continue reading
Three Marks of Existence
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#Three_Marks_of_Existence Buddhism 1. Impermanence– cycle of rebirth 2. Suffering– anxiety, discomfort 3. Not-self– “I” is a construct of the mind
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The Buddhist Robot — Doomsday Block
I found some clips from a movie called “Doomsday Block” which features the idea of an “enlightened AI,” one capable of thought beyond what humans have the capacity for. The AI in these clips raises great philosophical questions and ideas … Continue reading
The ELIZA Software
The ELIZA software simulates responses from a psychoanalyst in the form of “circular conversation,” in that ELIZA manipulates the words of the human subject, so that the human is able to look at themselves introspectively while offering nothing really meaningful … Continue reading
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The Ultimate (Useless) Machine of Minsky
http://kk.org/thetechnium/the-unspeakable/ This article offers some more of Arthur C. Clarke’s view on Marvin Minsky’s “useless machine” expanding on why the machine’s simple functionality (un-functionality) is so “unspeakably sinister” Additionally, the article reveals the mainstream appeal that the machine had as … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Machine
The link below shows several videos of people’s takes on the ultimate machine. Variations include using legos, and having a machine that unplugs itself when switched on, rather than hitting an off switch. http://www.soulphysics.org/2010/03/constructing-ultimate-machine/ Our fascination with the ultimate machine … Continue reading
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Cybernetic Social Planning
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine The Socialist Chilean Government’s Cybernetic plan to fully integrate technology into the governance of their state. Bonus Advanced Ultimate Machine:
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