Opening myself up as a target, I feel like having Marry, Fuck, Kill be about cars here doesn’t really make it any more acceptable. It’s still marry, fuck, and kill, and those words don’t make any sense unless you refer back (at least mentally if not explicitly) to the original woman framing. Which is truly an ugly…

Boo! Hiss!

I’m basing my thoughts on what’s actually dominating in the field of consumer-side AI today and extrapolating logically from that in terms of things like commercial pressures and how human-interfacing AI operates.

Not only would it not make sense it would be self-defeating and impractical in many regards.

Yes, I do realize that, and I accounted for that in my post if you’d try rereading it. Or maybe just reading it at all, because I mention that on a planet the androids would be linked to the ship. And while I didn’t explicitly add the step (mostly because it’s dead easy to see without my belaboring it) by extension…

He’s not really a Bernie supporter. He’s a conservative troll. For the love of God, stop playing into their hands.

Ah, bummer. Nice catch. I still feel like the “We are Walter” is significant, even if they didn’t mean it the way I took it.

I guess I could have been clearer: I think that what we’ll see in flourishing AI looks much more like Google Assistant than almost any of the AIs we are getting in robot form in our current crop of sci fi, and I think that the near-constantly connected, server-side aspect of that will likely dominate unless things…

What does it take to get out of the gray on this site?

Don’t be. I have never been much of a Star Wars fan, but I’ve always loved Ben Kenobi, and Clone Wars turned Maul from a pathetic, 1-dimensional character into something legitimately tragic enough for this finale.

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I have never argued that the end-robot won’t have processing power, I just believe that the bulk of what’s being parsed will happen “elsewhere,” because the robots we’re talking about (Walter) will require that to be of the uses for which it is intended.

You are arguing that simulating a human mind requires a giant mainframe to remotely control the robot

We’re fucked as a species. Seriously fucked.

Things are permanent

Every bit as good as The Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men.

Yes. Absolutely. But the kind of robot we are looking at here, a humanoid robot that has to be aware on a level of at least a fellow human of what’s going on, is something different from a car or a roomba.

No.

It’s not an analogy. It’s a direct reality. The way useful AI-ish assistants work is by accessing the vast amounts of news and information that make them usable. And again, while there is a processor in the phone, the processing that has GA and Alexa interact and serve you happens remotely.