Can Artificial Intelligence replace spirituality or religion? Should it? What's the value of introspection when technology and automation can do our thinking for us?
7. The Delight In The Data
New York Times' Farhad Manjoo: I don’t like to let my mind
wander. I’m a terrible person to ask. I disagree with the premise. I
don’t like moments where my mind wanders.
Manoush Zomorodi: So how do you come up with your ideas?
Manjoo: They’re all based on just looking at the Internet a whole
bunch. I read a lot, but when I’m not talking to people on twitter, I
don’t find those moments to be better. I will sometimes have a great
idea in the shower. I don’t think trying to engineer those moments
works for me.
The nature of Artificial Intelligence is to replicate, or copy, human intelligence via machines. AI is already being utilized in amazing and transformative ways in business and health arenas to improve people’s lives. However, the accelerated quest for innovation and automation is leading to cultural and legal changes society is not yet equipped to face, including areas like self-driving cars, augmented humans, and sentient machines. While it’s easy to focus on the threat of Terminator Robots taking our lives, Week Three of The Artificial and The Divine will focus more on how technology can easily supplant our focus on introspection or spirituality with the artificial assumption that we can automate human wellbeing.
The nature of Artificial Intelligence is to replicate, or copy, human intelligence via machines. AI is already being utilized in amazing and transformative ways in business and health arenas to improve people’s lives. However, the accelerated quest for innovation and automation is leading to cultural and legal changes society is not yet equipped to face, including areas like self-driving cars, augmented humans, and sentient machines. While it’s easy to focus on the threat of Terminator Robots taking our lives, Week Three of The Artificial and The Divine will focus more on how technology can easily supplant our focus on introspection or spirituality with the artificial assumption that we can automate human wellbeing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejczMs6b1Q4#t=156
At a technological level, Ellie combines a video camera to track facial expressions, a Microsoft Kinect movement sensor to track gestures and jerks, and a microphone to capture inflection and tone. At a psychological level, Ellie evolved from the suspicion that our twitches and twerks and tones reveal much more about our inner state than our words (thus Ellie tracks 60 different “features”—that’s everything from voice pitch to eye gaze to head tilt). As USC psychologist and one of the leads on the project, Albert Rizzo told NPR: [P]eople are in a constant state of impression management. They’ve got their true self and the self that they want to project to the world. And we know that the body displays things that sometimes people try to keep contained.”
More recently, a new study just found that patients are much more willing to open up to a robot shrink than a human shrink. Here’s how Neuroscience News explained it: ”The mere belief that participants were interacting with only a computer made them more open and honest, researchers found, even when the virtual human asked personal questions such as, ‘What’s something you feel guilty about?’ or ‘Tell me about an event, or something that you wish you could erase from your memory.’ In addition, video analysis of the study subjects’ facial expressions showed that they were also more likely to show more intense signs of sadness — perhaps the most vulnerable of expressions — when they thought only pixels were present.
The reason for this success is pretty straightforward. Robots don’t judge. Humans do.
Let my mind wander. I’m a terrible person to ask. I disagree with the premise. I don’t like moments where my mind wanders.
How do you come up with your idea
They’re all based on just looking at the Internet a whole bunch. I read a lot, but when I’m not talking to people on twitter, I don’t find those moments to be better. I will sometimes have a great idea in the shower. I don’t think trying to engineer those moments works for me. People may be different.
Have you tried
I’ve tried to not look at my phone. Then I think of something interesting, I want to get more info, I look at my phone. The phone is always a step away and that’s always better for me.
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