Doesn't everyone remember Dr. Smile from Phil Dick's novel "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch"??
-- Ben p.s. it was a robo-psychiatrist whose job was to make you crazy enough that you could be exempted from being sent to a Mars colony, for reasons of insanity ;-) On Nov 1, 2007 4:35 PM, Edward W. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personal AGIs could be very good psychologists for humans. > > If the nano-electronics revolution delivers on its promise, in fifteen to > twenty-five years most of us should be able to afford and wear (or have > implanted) personal AGI's that can substrantially record all of our lives. > Once they have recorded audio, video, and emotional indicators of all or > substantial portions of our lives, they will be able to provide us very real > advice about what has made us happy, what has engendered bad emotions, what > we are doing right and wrong in our relations with others and in our work. > They will help us understand the origin of many of our problems, help advise > us about how to solve such problems and better achieve our goals, and help > remind us when we are straying from what we have told it we really want to > do. > > What's more they can provide a valuable friend that cares about us -- one > that can remember every funny joke they have ever heard, and have the > sensitivity to know when each of them might be appropriate. > > Ed Porter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Tintner [*mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [agi] a2i2 looking for another AI Psychologist > > Bob: > I'm just waiting for the day when "robopsychologist" jobs become > available :-) > > > > There ARE lots of AI/robopsychologists in sc-fi - to help out all > > those > > paranoid androids. > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: > *http://www.agiri.org/email*<http://www.agiri.org/email> > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: * > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&* <http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;> > ------------------------------ > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=60085971-a3a0cc
