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Most of us find it exceedingly easy to dismiss any attempt to equate the behaviors of machines with intelligence. Perhaps if we looked a little closer, we'd think differently. Read More
Pygmalion
Watson's reaction time was deliberately slowed to give humans some chance to hit the buzzer first, or else the computer likely would have been unbeatable.
The rise of the machines (a subtitle of one of the "Terminator" films) has been a staple plot of scifi since the early years. Sometimes the machines are our collaborators (Robbie the Robot in "Forbidden Planet"), sometimes our enemies ("Battlestar Galactica"), sometimes out of control (HAL in "2001," "Colossus"), sometimes our lovers ("Metropolis," "Making Mr. Right"), and sometimes simply our replacements ("Saturn's Children"). It surely hasn't escaped anyone's attention that many of those fantasy machines are humaniform.
To the extent these tales presage anything real, their scenarios are not mutually exclusive. We already use robots in war and, while we don't yet let them pull the trigger, we increasingly give them autonomy, in part because, as The Economist recently noted, they "have the potential to act more humanely than people." Perhaps they can love us more humanly than people too. Though it doesn't yet have a product for it, Calvin Klein already has trademarked "Technosexual" just in case.
Pygmalion is still at work with his chisel.
Interesting article.
Interesting article can't wait to see where it goes.
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