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by funkervogt
Thu Jun 01, 2023 2:10 am
Forum: Fictional Future
Topic: Detroit: Become Human
Replies: 34
Views: 47905

Re: Detroit: Become Human

Markus, the leader of the android rebellion, can "free" other androids from their programming by clasping their hands with his own and transmitting new programming to them. It's easy to see how this could be a real means of communication for androids and other machines someday. While it wo...
by funkervogt
Tue May 30, 2023 12:55 am
Forum: Fictional Future
Topic: Detroit: Become Human
Replies: 34
Views: 47905

Re: Detroit: Become Human

In the episode where you investigate the scene after the android rebels make their renegade broadcast, one of the worker androids goes nuts, grabs a gun, and shoots five or six human cops dead in two seconds. Androids and robots will be incredibly fast and accurate with all weapons, including guns. ...
by funkervogt
Mon May 29, 2023 1:59 am
Forum: Fictional Future
Topic: Detroit: Become Human
Replies: 34
Views: 47905

Re: Detroit: Become Human

In the episode where you have to break into the corporate news skyscraper, there's a scene where you have to discern clues about a human worker by looking at the items on her her dress and desk. You learn enough about her to make a fake phone call to her about a made-up emergency that gets her to le...
by funkervogt
Sun May 28, 2023 12:33 am
Forum: Fictional Future
Topic: Detroit: Become Human
Replies: 34
Views: 47905

Re: Detroit: Become Human

I played the episode where the emotionally volatile human detective puts a gun to the forehead of his android partner and threatens to shoot. In reality, an android designed to be a police officer would have bullet proof materials integrated into its body, so the gun would have posed no threat to it...
by funkervogt
Fri May 26, 2023 1:12 pm
Forum: AI & Robotics
Topic: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) News and Discussions
Replies: 370
Views: 311235

Re: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) News and Discussions

Good Lord, I don't believe Musk said that. How could such a comment not attract major mainstream media attention?
by funkervogt
Thu May 25, 2023 12:56 am
Forum: Fictional Future
Topic: Detroit: Become Human
Replies: 34
Views: 47905

Re: Detroit: Become Human

I just played the episode where you investigate the murder in the android brothel. In spite of 15 years of price inflation between then and today, sex with an android only costs $1 per minute, which actually makes sense since they will work for free. Androids will make unlimited amounts of high-qual...
by funkervogt
Wed May 24, 2023 5:33 pm
Forum: Biology & Medicine
Topic: BCIs & Neurotechnology News and Discussions
Replies: 126
Views: 164688

Re: BCIs & Neurotechnology News and Discussions

Implants in paralyzed man's brain and spine let him walk again.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01728-0
by funkervogt
Tue May 23, 2023 4:42 pm
Forum: AI & Robotics
Topic: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) News and Discussions
Replies: 370
Views: 311235

Re: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) News and Discussions

https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1660700692372410368 A key quote from that essay: Given the picture as we see it now, it’s conceivable that within the next ten years, AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains, and carry out as much productive activity as one of today’s largest corp...
by funkervogt
Mon May 22, 2023 8:50 pm
Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
Topic: The future of customized films
Replies: 2
Views: 10597

Re: The future of customized films

The same scene, by three different actors of different races and sexes, all excellent.





by funkervogt
Mon May 22, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: Science & Technology of the Future
Topic: The future of customized films
Replies: 2
Views: 10597

Re: The future of customized films

In the future, selecting which actors you want in films you're about to watch could be as natural as customizing your character at the start of a video game today.