I read an article decades ago that said Japanese scientist assigned to months of continuous duty at an international scientific base in Antarctica were each issued a biologically correct, life-size blow up doll. Presumably an AGI could be packed into something a little more baba-licious than that, and a lot more 'Oh! Oh! Oh! Yes!. Yes!. Yeeeeeesssss!" than that, and have a lot more better than Dr. Ruth naugtily know how than that -- I'm talking real Red-Hot-Mama Robo-Babes.
Seriously, I think one of the real problems of AGIs is that they can create virtual worlds and machanical friends that are so much more interesting than us humans that we might lose interest in each other. (One can argue that such a change, or at least something approaching it, could help prepare human feelings for the transhumanist transformation.) But if personal AGI's could be interactively controlled well enough by us, we could interact with other people with and through them. Perhaps the personalized sub-goals and sharable visual and auditory memories another has given their personal AGI would become part of what was perceived as their personality. Being with someone would be being with a flesh-and-blood, wetware-and-hardware, whole that could be pretty damn interesting. I think creating high bandwidth interfaces that let humans rapidly communicate with and control AGIs is going to be one of the important challenges of keeping human wetware in the loop for a reasonable length of time during the transhu transit. Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: JW Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] a2i2 looking for another AI Psychologist 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 <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&a rticleId=9044918> &articleId=9044918 Time will tell whether robo-spouses will be more maddening or less :-) -JW -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Goertzel 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]> 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. ----- 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/? <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/? <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/? <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=60143626-076465
