Thread: Artificial Human Companions

Artificial human companions.

If we're talking beings like the cylons in the recent reimagining of Battlestar Galactica then probably none of us alive right now will be around for that. Currently the stage we're at when it comes to such AI is actually far from impressive when you consider that the said machines extant are like retarded cockroaches.

Earth is a Type 0 civilization. If you look at Star Trek, in the Type II civilization of the Federation there is the AI named Data. Can a Type 0 civilization produce a Data? Unlikely.

We're a century or so from reaching just Type I status.

Don't hold your breath when it comes to truly spectacular artificial human companions.

Moore's law may reach its limit in about twenty years but even if not it would be about fifty years from now before we would have artificial human companions that could reach genuine human parody but at that point they would be dangerous and we would have to voluntarily restrict their advancement in order to control them that way we can be safe from them so they wouldn't get to achieve human parody at such a time because we wouldn't allow it.

My theory is that about fifty years after such an event once we have successfully transitioned from a Type 0 to Type I civilization then such restrictions will be lifted and such artificial human companions would become pretty much more and more human on all levels including legally.

Furthermore, my conviction is that a Type 0 civilization entails certain political and religious/philosophical obstacles and therefore other obstacles that would make what I consider to be a true artificial human companion an impossibility.

I just don't personally consider anything less than human to be a artificial human companion. To me a true artificial human companion is truly human except is made human through artificial means.

Others would differ of course. I don't deny that anything less than my ideal conception of a artificial human companion would be a artificial human companion to anyone else but for me personally such wouldn't be at all.

If Anton LaVey considered the inventions in his Den of Iniquity to be artificial human companions then that was what worked for him. For me that wouldn't work.

I agree with the artificial companions, I would hope things would be like the film IRobot, however, oddities and technological anomalies happen, just like all the the spectrum of sciences. War has always been a part of human society and if we make technology increasingly human we will see the same Lex Talionis principle transfer to our robotic friends. I doubt that we will see a Terminator style future as we have not, and probably never will, harness and master the ability of actual time travel (my assumptions on that is that we will wire high resolution; superiorly high definition memories within our minds into a virtual matrix and visit our past artificially.) That fact aside if we play our cards right we can have all or manufacture friends fight all of our wars for us.

I love the rhetoric behind:

Mcdonalds = Good food

Good food = Healthy food

Mcdonalds = Healthy food

This typed of rotten rhetoric is taught and learned to be defaced in logic 101. Most well trained medical doctors have often stated, that in line with today's concept of food if it taste's really good 9 times out of 10 it's not good for you.

-Nevermore

Yes the technology we have now is "stupifieing". Everyone out there is addicted and numb and it only stands to get worse the way we are heading. The good taste in all the processed food is from chemicals like MSG that makes our brain think the food tastes good and creates an addiction. Never cared for most fast food. I tend to go for the finer foods.LOL Artificial human companions sound like a nice idea, but can they ever advance to the point where they really have any advantage over the real ones. they would have to feel real and seem real. Virtual is good for some, but doesn't replace the realness for me. There are advantages to both. A virtual experience is better than nothing if I am home sick and can view far off travel spots, but it's not as good as the real thing. It might be more effective to come up w/ a technology where the user puts on a helmet and actually has the experience in his brain. Saw that in an old 80's movie. It might be more real and have the same positive effects on the body that the actual experience would have-a thought, but that is a long ways away also.