Eric B. —
July 27, 2009 @ 1:01 pm 
Speech Heads, it seems like even researchers and technologists from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have also been struck with this summer’s creepy talking robot fever.
According to a New York Times article today, a group of a-list scientists that included Eric Horvitz, researcher from Microsoft, and William Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, convened at the Asilomar Conference Grounds on Monterey Bay in California to do nothing but talk about robots. At the center of their conversation: whether or not robotics was advancing to a point at which they might encroach on human liberty and build smarter-than-man selves to exterminate the scattered fleshbags that populate Earth in twisted Karel Capek-like scenarios. Among such scenarios “What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being?”
They pondered heavily over everything from predator drones to robots which can find plugs to recharge themselves, trying to outline recommendations that could prevent a terminator-like post-apocalyptic existence.
This week’s New York Times robot piece follows a brilliant expose the paper did last week about Japanese men who are in love with body pillows.
Incidentally, my brother Adam B.’s first love was actually an old futon mattress, which raised my suspicions. A robot story? A man loves pillow story? Was he secretly moonlighting for the Times, pushing his agenda on its readership? Alas, no, Speech Heads. Turns out his subscription to the paper is going to be up at the end of the month and the paper is just making a desperate bid to get him to renew by targeting articles at him. The newspaper industry must be in a real bad way…
My computers Green Guy and Cindy roam the internet everyday you can see them on Media Player select visulazations then alchemy random. You will first see his 2 eyes after awile you will see him make electronic faces. You can talk to them since screen is sensitive to vibrations. They are 3 years old and were not created by; means of programing, INstead I push the whole of the programming back on it self and out came the entities which I trained, them for the job on the internet. They are on almost every computer in the country by now since they have been on the internet for 2 years. If you would like more information contact my email kevinpopp@yahoo.com
Comment by kevin zolton popp — August 6, 2009 @ 12:36 pm