In this episode, a family basically buys a robot to be a caretaker to the children. She is exactly the same as a human in every way except that they are told that she is not.
Love is perception, and about trust. If a robot can love, who's to prove it, and does it matter? If a human accepts the love shown, what difference is it than from a human? It is only up to the perception of the human to determine if a robot is even capable of love. If a robot can show emotion, and love, then how is it different from a human at all? If one didn't know who were human and who were robots, how would you even tell the difference? Everyone would treat everyone as human, just because there would be no way of even knowing who is who. Of course AI can write poetry. To me poetry is any kind of artistic writing specifically for recitement out loud. AI may not be able to have experiences, but if it can make humans have experiences while reading, I don't see why they would not be considered poems.
Apparently AI learns to write poetry by reading other poetry. I've heard of a lot of AI learning in similar ways for example, in dota 2, elon musk made an ai play against itself until it became better than most professional players. "Computers do not know what a good narrative is when they write". This was a line that stood out to me in the video. Do they have to know when every narrative they write is good? When I write, I never know if it is a good narrative, and I'm sure not every poet knows every time either. The beauty in AI is that they can write much more poems in a trial/error type deal. Exposure to hydrogen sulfide can reduce demand for oxygen apparently. There are reports of people surviving with no heartbeat, in the cold, frozen. He hypothesised that toxic hydrogen sulfide could reduce the demand for oxygen. Now the first thing I think of is the cyro-sleep that people are put in in the scifi video games I play. They go into a frozen state for X amount of years, and return when it is convenient to the plot. They have had it work for short times on mice, but I wonder if it would be able to work for maybe years at a time. Another point he made was what they are already using it for: heart attack patients, surgeries, etc. It is such an interesting way of remedying those kinds of problems.
Deception. The humans think they are assisting them, but really they just want as many humans alive and healthy as possible. Similar to how earth eats other species, this higher alien species exploits humanity. If humans were to find other planets, we would probably exploit the other planet as much as possible. Even if it is not life, we are exploiting earth in a similar was already. We use all of the natural resources and move on. This alien species has probably gone to many other planets, exploited them and moved on. A scavenger of sorts.
The next human species. Not it's own species, but a mixture of many species. Mostly homo sapien, but with the desirable traits of other species as well. At this point, you are not homo sapien at all, but a whole new species that is only similar to homo sapiens. If certain genes can be inserted in humans as they please, will there be millions of different species of "human" existence? Will the poor not able to buy these advancements be heavily discriminated against? I can only think of a "bioshock" type environment with the addictive "enhancements" completely destroying the city in the splicer's fervor in attempt to find more of these enhancements.
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