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I remember when Boston Dynamics videos used to be an event every time they uploaded, but it seems they've just been doing iterative improvements and memes lately.

Yuli Ban wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:37 pm

It's the eyes zone, block it and it looks like a normal robot.

Yuli Ban wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:37 pm

Look at its facial reaction at 3:28, after the guy says "It won't take over the world, because we can turn it off" ...

Also, imagine it's 30 years from now, and we're looking back at this video. I think Ameca will seem laughably outdated.

Powers wrote: ↑Wed Nov 15, 2023 12:16 am

Yuli Ban wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:37 pm

It's the eyes zone, block it and it looks like a normal robot.

Plays directly into wjfox's comment, actually.
Most of convincing humans that something is alive DOES NOT HAPPEN FROM BRAINPOWER.
Yes, intelligence, sapience, all that fun stuff is the "last 10%" as it were.
But WE actually do the first 90% of it. All something has to do to convince us it's smart, that it's thinking, that it's alive and conscious, is to fool us physically.

Hence why motions like a robot's sighful roll of the eyes, or a golden retriever pulling its mouth back into something that looks like a smile, or a gorilla rubbing his chin and furtively looking around the room, or even a snake recoiling at tasting a lemon before looking up at a nearby human at the perfect moment, all "sells" us on a sense of intelligence in a way that can spook us, even if there's nothing actually in the brain remotely close to human level intelligence. On some level, there doesn't even need to be. ELIZA in the 1960s convinced people it was a thinking, feeling, conscious being, despite being a chatbot so simple that it could run on a pregnancy test nowadays. That's what's going to be scary and interesting about more advanced AI: when its brains actually CAN mimic and/or surpass humanity.

Heh, hopefully.

Cyber_Rebel wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 12:06 am Heh, hopefully.

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