Heck with AGI Shrinks. More likely the nerds on this list will be marrying robots by 2050:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044918

Time will tell whether robo-spouses will be more maddening or less :-)

-JW

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Nov 1, 2007 4:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [agi] a2i2 looking for another AI Psychologist


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] ]
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.


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