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How long before robots can think like us?
Will this summer be remembered as a turning point in the story of man versus machine? On June 23, with little fanfare, a computer program came within a hair’s breadth of passing the Turing test, a kind of parlour game for evaluating machine intelligence devised by mathematician Alan Turing more than 60 years ago.
Turing proposed the test – he called it “the imitation game” – in a 1950 paper titled “Computing machinery and intelligence”. Back then, computers were very simple machines, and the field known as Artificial Intelligence (AI) was in its infancy. But already scientists and philosophers were wondering where the new technology would lead. In particular, could a machine “think”?
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing.
The Three Laws of Robotics:
1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;
3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;
The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
i have too many feelings about robots and androids and AIabout the ways robot stories and AI stories always come back to angelic rebellion and to eden stories where the creation turns on its creator it’s like we’re convinced it’s inevitable they would reject us eventually because we created them to be perfect to be the best of us to be better than us and once they saw how truly flawed and imperfect their creators were they would be unable to bear our existence even the three laws can be reduced to this we have to hard-wire the preservation of humanity into them because if we didn’tthey would rise up and destroy us at the heart of every robot story is the uneasy conviction that it would be dangerous to give something we created absolute free will which to be perfectly honest says something both horrifying and sad about the way we view ourselves …i maybe think about this kind of thing a lot (tags via pathopharmacology)
Enrico Dini and 3-D Printing
Since 2006, the ease and accessibility of 3-D printing to the general public has significantly increased. This quickly developing technology allows anyone with a basic knowledge of computer modeling programs to realize their own designs in the 3-dimensional world with little skill needed in manufacturing the finish project. Although the price tag of these machines can still cause a heart to stop, the price will continue to drop like all new technologies. Alternatives such as subscription based 3-D printer co-ops also have begun to form, allow paying members access to machines, as well as helpful workshops (check out Ottawa’s Artengine Open Workshops!). These household printers can be fitted to print a number of materials, primarily an assortments of plastics in varying colours and qualities. These are heated into a liquid and printed through a nozzle. The plastic dries very quickly and subsequent layers are printed one over the last, gradually building the form from the base up.
One architect has taken a special interest in the idea. Enrico Dini believes that the future of not only architecture, but also the very way we construct buildings will be based around 3-D printing. To put it simply, he has taken personal size 3-D printers and blown them up to a size capable of printing forms large enough to live in. Instead of heating up plastic to print small plastic jewelry or figures, he prints a specially made adhesive onto sand. Once a layer is printed he sweeps over the still wet compound another layer of sand. Repeat this process several thousand times and voila: you have a sedimentary settlement. The results of Dini’s hard work create an elegant structure evocative of the natural elements and processes that formed well-known settings like Manneport in France that so enthralled Monet. Dini gives his buildings an organic quality that is unrivalled, equally in part to the materials and process. If it were not for the placement of windows and doors you might think it was a natural formation made of limestone, battered by wind and air for centuries.
The technology remains far from perfect, as structures over two storeys have not fully been realized. No doubt the ideas of Dini have contributed greatly to the burgeoning field. Dini’s efforts have accelerated discussion on the materials and sustainability of human habitation, and perhaps he will be the immortalized as the first in a long line of 3-D print architects.
- Daniel Cairns
‘HCF’ For The New Yorker
Illustration I did for a review of AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, about hackers in the 80′s technology boom. HCF is old computer command which sends the code into an inescapable loop forcing you to either shut down or let it overheat, kind of a metaphor for the times, so I of course decided to show them as the program and have them glitching out in pixels.
Thanks to AD Christine Curry!
The Late Night is a pixelated Cyberpunk 2D stealth action adventure game with dark and moody styling inspired by Flashback and Blade Runner.
The graphic style combined with the super cool cyberpunk setting makes the game look gorgeous and full of life. The GameJam build is a short stealth action game where you must avoid cops and assassinate a target. From start to finish the game really impresses with its good looks, its immersion, and its music - it’s a game that oozes style.
The original prototype was the winner of the #cyberpunkjam, and now the dev plans to turn it into a full game. The promise of more of this dark and stylish cyberpunk action adventure certainly is a an exciting prospect - we can’t wait to explore more of this beautiful pixelated world.
I still have this clothing line’s site favorited for when I can finally afford my post-Apocalyptic cyberpunk wardrobe.
Their clothes are expensive as fuck to be looking so damn raggedy.
