A New Zealand Company Built An AI Baby That Plays the Piano (bloomberg.com)
pacopico writes: A New Zealand company called Soul Machines has built a disturbingly lifelike virtual baby powered by artificial intelligence software. According to a Bloomberg story, the baby has learned to read books, play the piano and draw pictures. The work is built off the research of Mark Sagar, the company's CEO, who is on a quest to mimic human consciousness in a machine. Sagar used to work at Weta creating lifelike faces for films like King Kong and Avatar and is now building these very realistic looking virtual avatars and pumping them full of code that not only handles things like speech but that also replicates the nervous system and brain function. The baby, for example, has virtual dopamine receptors that fire when it feels joy from playing the piano. What could go wrong?
How much longer will it take for AI's to start writing code?
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Because, while you can tune a piano, you can't tune a fish.
Sex slave programmed to feel joy only when servicing his/her master in 3, 2, 1...
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Why are all of the "AI"s so specialized?
One can play piano, another can drive a car, another can do speech to texr, another can identify faces, etc.
Is this really Intelligence? Is "Artificial" just a synonym for "fake"?
Baby Al who?
Baby Al Gore?
Baby Al Capone?
Baby Alexander the Great?
Ok, fine, piano, books, whatever. But is this AI potty trained?
What is best in life? Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.
Subby, at that point it isn't lifelike, but life.
It is not a realistic-looking AI. It's a realistically animated (by a human) 3d model, which is given instructions by a computer program ("artificial intelligence"). You can separate the one from the other much more easily than you can separate a real intelligence from its body.
I mean creating minors.
Babies freak me out.
The baby, for example, has virtual dopamine receptors that fire when it feels joy from playing the piano. What could go wrong?
Its AI could become desensitized to the piano induced dopamine, and decides it needs to learn the bagpipes instead.
thinks he's a real ww3 head roller? sad at best closer to pathetic.. cease fire stand down,, there are moms & babys in every single town all the wwworld around
just wait... he's still trying to grasp wtf our motives are? greed fear & ego do not qualify as reasons to delete most of us.. in the moms we trust.. hand in hand...
of Oz... The "man behind the curtain"... It's all fake. Somebody trying to convince us that it's "real AI" when it's just the same old fucking stupid piece of metal and basic ifs and loops and function calls. Fucking retarded.
Imagine when skynet baby throws a temper tantrum or if the AI suffered from bipolar disorder among other things...
Why mimic HUMAN consciousness? Isn't that setting the bar a little low? Why mimic the greed and hate that powers wars and poverty?
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Let's see what happens?
They wrote some software that can play the piano. I hate to break it to them, but pianos have done that for well over a century. The fact that itâ(TM)s happening through a baby-shaped apparatus doesnâ(TM)t change the underlying function. That is basic logic. Where did the intelligence go in tech? Seriously. Have IQs dropped again or something?
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Of this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
And it is an annoying puff piece which would have you believe this guy has created an actual conscious AI. No video in the article but found this TED talk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k7eeV9VEtsA
The animation is indeed impressive but the AI behind it? Not buying it , the simulating dopamine sounds contrived. I think we see why he selected a baby to model - no matter what it does it looks plausible. It's like "talking Tom" version 5 but no more.
You know what happens next.
Anyone?
Watch the movie "Ex Machina" for some examples of what could go wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Meh! Let me know when the baby can dance.
First of all, this guy is flipping the bird at the uncanny valley with a big FU to the UV.
He's good, and he knows it.
Second, this project requires an enormous amount of experimental interaction time with the simulated being, and humans are programmed to tolerate fragmentary interactions with babies (subtype: who mainly speak only when spoken to) for a lot longer than dealing with the cognition-limited adult sitting next to you on the airplane.
Third, it's for the same reason that artists practice on "natural" models. If you're good, you want to heighten critique, and not run away at the first sign of an uphill gradient.
I've always regarded the UV as overrated. It's nought but craggy gully that separates the boys from the sheep. (Separating the men from the boys is a further challenge, long after the UV is well and truly in your RV mirror.)
Indeed. Maybe when it turns 18 (not sure which applies for robots: years, months, weeks, days, hours or seconds), it can vote. And it will vote with more intelligence than 99.6% of Kiwis just did.
captcha: "molests", really?