*More Multidimensional food for thought Ashtar Massive...
A female robot called a TIME writer, which is no big deal in this day and age when robot calls have been a common occurrence for years.
However, what makes this robot call different is that the robot actively denies her robothood, going so far as laughing at repeated questions about being a robot.
In other reports, the term “robot” has been criticized, as many seem to think it suggests an actual android-type thing and not an interface designed to trick you into thinking you are carrying on a conversation with something that has parents.
But that’s exactly what TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer experienced at first, and it seems he may not have even realized he’d been speaking to a robot named “Samantha West.”
According to the site, the interaction took place deep in Uncanny Valley, and TIME reports:
“When Scherer asked point blank if she was a real person, or a computer-operated robot voice, she replied enthusiastically that she was real, with a charming laugh. But then she failed several other tests. When asked ‘What vegetable is found in tomato soup?’ she said she did not understand the question. When asked multiple times what day of the week it was yesterday, she complained repeatedly of a bad connection.”
Prepare to be unsettled — the actual recordings were also posted, featuring non-robot robots denying their entire existence:
According to the site, Samantha West disappeared as quickly as she’d appeared, and further apparent attempts at obfuscation resulted:
“As of Dec. 11, one day after this story published, the phone number listed above was no longer answered by Samantha West. Rather, it diverted callers to a busy signal. Also the website, premierhealthagency.com, had been taken offline.”
As the female robot has apparently disappeared under the scrutiny, we can only hope she’s fallen in love with a rogue bounty hunter and spirited away to safety hours before she was set to be brutally “retired.”
http://dailyglobe.com/28737/robot-calls-man-denies-robot-may-sentient/
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~Expect these themes to remain front & center as the new paradigm continues to emerge... Humanities relationship with technology is at the center point of a Spiritual tipping point that will define who we truly are. Spike Jonze's new film 'Her' serves as an interesting addition to the Multidimensional narrative of 'Artificial Intelligence'. ~InLight555
Here's some snippets of a review of the film...
Review: Spike Jonze's 'Her' shows love's perils — in any form
'Her,' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, and directed by Spike Jonze, is a love story and a horror show.
By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Film Critic
December 17, 2013
Spike Jonze has a knack for disturbing our peace, and his new film "Her" does that with a vengeance.
A different and daring futuristic tale starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, "Her" is a look at the pleasures and perils of new technology that's a smart entertainment and a subtle warning, a love story and a horror show. Acerbic, emotional, provocative, it's a risky high dive off the big board with a plot that sounds like a gimmick but ends up haunting, odd and a bit wonderful...
With "Her," Jonze for the first time has sole writing credit. He not only came up with a killer idea, he's had the nerve to go all the way with it, to tease out multiple implications of his lightly dystopian "what if" plot all the way to the unforeseen but perfectly logical denouement.
What helps Jonze get the most out of his examination of the consequences of a man (Phoenix) falling in love with the voice of his operating system (Johansson, never seen on-screen) is his lack of interest in making "Her" simply an empty Luddite screed.
As Jonze has taken pains to insist in numerous interviews, "Her" in his mind is as much about the nature of individual relationships as it is about a future in which we trust and rely on our devices more than we do our fellow human beings...
Finally, however, the questions "Her" poses about the ambivalent potential of personal technology is its most intriguing aspect. This is a film about how we live now and how we might live in the future. We are entering a brave new world and dealing with the consequences is our fate.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-her-...
tomato - tomahto...they take the robot word to literally. It still is a robot
salesman behind the programming!-the abuse of ai's will be much worse, obviously, in the future and when governments use it against us
I think the people themselves are gonna make their fair share of this abuse since the demand for sex-AI's will skyrocket the moment someone even comes up with the idea.
It will be especially catastrophic if the AI's become truly sentient since we would then need to treat them like everyone else, and I am not certain humanity have reached that level of emotional maturity yet. I fear most humans would look at truly intelligent machines as "still just disposable machines", and that's a deadly mistake. ;)
Humans need to re-focus here. If they are looking for a "slave-race" that can do all the nasty and dirty work, then AI's are NOT the right way to go. I truly hope mathematical evolution is as logical I believe it is because IF that is, then the created will destroy the creator the moment he tries to control its evolution whereas there will be no co-existence problems between AI's and Humans since only the tolerant and open minded will survive, on both "sides". ;)
I am pretty sure thats already in the works..................