Humanity can barely stand itself, you think we can live together with another race?
A race of slaves programmed to make us feel good about ourselves and satisfy our every need?
I'm sure most human beings could. The biggest problem we have with other humans really is that they don't agree with us 100% of the time and have pesky selfish needs and motivations we don't like, care about, or that are contrary to ours.
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Maybe it's because I work in software engineering and find AI cool to think about that to me it's intriguing. Just to put in in perspective, people are already able to have strong emotional connections to things like characters in movies/games/tv shows. We can go much further with stuff like AI.
I wouldn't say it creeps me out, but more so I do hold some concerns regarding AI and it's rapid growth. Like jobs are a fundamental part of most of our lives, and the second an AI can be made to be way better in it, that fundamental aspect of your life simply stops exiting. Your examples touch on this kind of idea, but in terms of human attachment. it's scary to think that AI would be better at for example being more relatable, more nice to be around and so on. Would we just stop communicating directly with each other?
I guess another development that could follow would be cybernetics, so maybe we could be on the same level, but we would have to modify ourselves to do so.
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Some robots are already replacing the people I work with. Enjoy your new $15 minimum wage employee.
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The thing with this type of "AI" is that it's not AI at all. It's just programming. A wide array of pre-set functions anticipated by other human beings and programmed into a machine. It's about AI as much as what we currently call "VR" is Virtual Reality, which is just the illusion of the superficial layer of one.
So do I have a problem with it? Not on principle. I feel however that this is bound to separate us more and more from each other, which is already caused a lot of harm to us as a people. But maybe I just read too much scifi or watched too much scifi.
I can"t really talk about sex robots anymore because I've exhausted all my arguments on various tv and movie forums for stuff like Humans or Ex Machina. I feel it's probably the worse of the list but I'm not going to get into it here, as I'm sure a lot would disagree and it's just not worth the time for a gadget that will literally never be available to most people.
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Never be available to most people? You mean literally as in third world countries and the earth population or it their cost will never drop and they will never gain acceptance in developed nations?
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I think it's one of those high-tech things that will remain too expensive for most people who would use them.
The technology will keep it prohibitively expensive, even if there wasn't a cultural push-back against it.
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It seems like we are on the new frontier of AI and robotics being apart of our personal lives.
I'll give you four examples to think about.
There's the Replika AI app, which you can download on your phone, and talk to your own personal AI companion chatbot that grows over time with you and is always there for you.
From Japan there is Gatebox, an AI companion that can text / speak to you, interact with home appliances, and takes up physical space as it lives in its tube in your home.
There's the handy little sleep robot companion, from Somnox. It lays in bed with you, breathes, and plays musics or sounds to help improve your sleep.
The most controversial AI is in the form of the pleasure robots, which have AI in them as well, in addition to being fully functional for pleasure.
What do you guys think? Are you interested in this new technology being apart of our lives, or does it just creep you out.
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