It might be nice to know what you are in for before it gets started! Maybe widespread use of cheat detecting devices could foster communities of people interested in open relationships. Or it could potentially reveal some interesting insights into humans and monogamy…
– H.F.G.
Robots are being used to help people make healthier food choices in a non-judgemental way… with some promising results, but could robots be more effective at helping you lose weight if they were programmed to scare you skinny?
– H.F.G.
AI that learns, evolves and can transform itself is closer than you think. Would you have a relationship with an AI that could take the form of your ideal partner?
– H.F.G.
Could morphing robots be the future of body positive fashion? Perhaps it could help women to embrace their natural shape and looks rather than succumbing to the idea that they need to be thin to be fashionable and beautiful… or it could cause outrage, another industry de-humanised and taken over by robotics. What do you think?
– H.F.G.
What could be more passive aggressive than having a robot act in frustration for you?! It might help to diffuse situations, but it also might make people more resentful of your indirect behaviour.
– H.F.G.
Does the uncertainty of the future keep you from taking steps towards achieving your dreams? What if you had a tool that told you the statistical likelihood of your dreams becoming reality and gave you tips, ideas and actions you could take to improve those odds? Would it help you get started, or could it keep you motivated during frustrating moments?
Or would knowing that the odds are against you stop you from starting, leading you to fall into a funk and give up entirely? Or, alternatively, what if your goals weren’t all that noble, would it still help you anyway?
Maybe there is something to be said for uncertainty.
– H.F.G.
Cat stays inside while the poop goes out, all you have to do is open the door!
But would the cat really go for it?
– H.F.G.
There’s a lot of information out there…
the Internet is filled with people’s ideas, artistic creations, random blabbing, scientific information and so much more. But do you ever think about all the things that we delete from the Internet? Not just the things we post and then regret, but all the things we type and never send, the posts we never publish and the ideas we never share.
Imagine if all these things that have been ‘erased’ were cultivated and used as learning fodder for an Artificial Intelligence.
Those clever quips and witty retorts that never received an audience, the poems, love notes, angry emails, misguided selfies, fun anecdotes and interesting stories that you believed had been deleted for good, all brought together to form an artificial ‘personality’.
It isn’t unreasonable to think that an AI that has learned from our vulnerable and emotional moments might end up being a little unreliable (and a poor speller to boot). And you thought Tay was bad…
This AI would be lovelorn, prone to angry outbursts and risque behaviour. The embodiment of all our most impulsive and basic instincts.
It makes you wonder whether AI should be, like Bina48, an attempt to recreate human intelligence, or if it should be something else entirely…