A.I. companions for astronauts

[Techwright]

Has no one at the various space commands seen 2001?  Or played Portal?  I have a bad feeling about this.

 

It can only be attributable to human error. -HAL 9000

“Science Has Validated Your Birth Mother’s Decision To Abandon You On A Doorstep.” -GLaDOS

 

https://www.space.com/astronauts-artificial-intelligence-companions-deep-space-missions

 

 

[Luminara]

1 hour ago, Techwright said:

Has no one at the various space commands seen 2001?  Or played Portal?  I have a bad feeling about this.

 

It can only be attributable to human error. -HAL 9000

“Science Has Validated Your Birth Mother’s Decision To Abandon You On A Doorstep.” -GLaDOS

 

https://www.space.com/astronauts-artificial-intelligence-companions-deep-space-missions

 

[honoroit]

it'll be great - for lonely people, the elderly (see prior), and case in point - provides a rich interactive that evolves, or can educate you, tell you stories, and (if allowed to) tasks groups of itself to better understand you, and even act as your proxy.

 

my only hope is that we create laws not to just stop machines taking our jobs, which they absolutely will, is that those laws wrap and forbid very explicitly and tightly any enslavement of sentience... because we, humans, will try.

 

we will (likely) try to make something far greater than us our slaves.  and should be damned as slavers should we try.  i can think of no greater betrayal of creation.

Edited November 17, 2023 by honoroit

[Frostbiter]

I can't help but feel like those AI are just going to turn into therapists. Even odds for if they get turned into sex therapists or not.

[Luminara]

2 hours ago, Frostbiter said:

Even odds for if they get turned into sex therapists or not.

 

You're questioning whether the horniest species in the universe will create AI sex therapists?

[Frostbiter]

2 hours ago, Luminara said:

 

You're questioning whether the horniest species in the universe will create AI sex therapists?

 

Not even for a minute.

 

 

Edited November 17, 2023 by Frostbiter

[biostem]

21 hours ago, Techwright said:

I have a bad feeling about this.

Ever see the Andromeda TV series?  There was an episode or possibly a mini-arc, where the captain of a ship, (which all have AI and associated avatars), fell in love with said AI, (or was it the other way around)?  I'm also thinking of the 2009 film "Moon" where the AI robot did serve as a companion, but also 

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intentionally misled Sam Rockwell's character...

 

[Techwright]

19 hours ago, honoroit said:

it'll be great - for lonely people, the elderly (see prior), and case in point - provides a rich interactive that evolves, or can educate you, tell you stories, and (if allowed to) tasks groups of itself to better understand you, and even act as your proxy.    That's fine, so long as they stop at the NS-4 model and never advance to the NS-5 model.

 

my only hope is that we create laws not to just stop machines taking our jobs, which they absolutely will, is that those laws wrap and forbid very explicitly and tightly any enslavement of sentience... because we, humans, will try.   The more the discussions grow about the rapid expansion of robots, A.I. and what it means to workers jobs, the more I feel that the storyline of superhero Magnus: Robot Fighter will began to feel meaningful if ever brought to the screen.

 

we will (likely) try to make something far greater than us our slaves.  and should be damned as slavers should we try.  i can think of no greater betrayal of creation.

 

3 hours ago, biostem said:

Ever see the Andromeda TV series?  There was an episode or possibly a mini-arc, where the captain of a ship, (which all have AI and associated avatars), fell in love with said AI, (or was it the other way around)?  I'm also thinking of the 2009 film "Moon" where the AI robot did serve as a companion, but also 

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intentionally misled Sam Rockwell's character...

Yep, saw the first half of the series Andromeda before the TV station in my area started messing with the timing.  While I was initially upset, when I started learning details of the latter half of the total series, I feel I might have been dropped off right before it jumped the shark.  Still loved the first parts, though.

 

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

No inventing AI robots until you've invented the shotgunaxe.

[Skyhawke]

I agree that AI is getting too smart. My workout app suddenly started quantifying my progress in turkeys lifted...like it knows why I've bumped up my sets. My app shouldn't know I'll be eating mounds of turkey in two days yet...

[Luminara]

3 hours ago, Skyhawke said:

I agree that AI is getting too smart.

 

Show bobs.

[Skyhawke]

14 minutes ago, Luminara said:

 

Show bobs.

 

[Frostbiter]

6 minutes ago, Skyhawke said:

 

 

You beat me to that. I had to sort through a large amount of hairstyle photos. 😆

[Shenanigunner]

On 11/16/2023 at 11:20 PM, honoroit said:

it'll be great - for lonely people, the elderly (see prior), and case in point - provides a rich interactive that evolves, or can educate you, tell you stories...

 

See Harry Harrison's "I Always Do What Teddy Says." Largely forgotten sf short from when HH wrote literate, thought-provoking stuff (such as "The Streets of Ashkelon") and not reams of bad comic-book drafts.