Now that I'm three years into retirement the breakouts I used to get on my hands aren't a problem any more; the issue is thought to be an autoimmune disorder activated or worsened by stress, which explains why it was work-related. I'd have killed for something more effective than topical medications.
The other day I read a Substack that described "Friend" (or something), an AI device one can carry or wear. You're supposed to talk to it like you talk to a person. I guess. It replies in more or less appropriate ways and allows one to pretend to have an actual human relationship. With a disk. Except for Facebook, I can't remember the last time I saw anything so stupid, which means it will probably be a huge hit and I should buy stock.
You are in good company, here. Many of us have these autoimmune disorders that are exacerbated by stress. We are getting close on not only treatments, but some outright cures at this point. Lots of reasons to be hopeful.
These LLMs are certainly not going anywhere. Most people can no longer tell the difference between a robot and a person, which means in 10 years it will be many times cheaper, more efficient, and near impossible to detect. I am sure we will all have a 'Friend', which is to say, let me know the ticker symbol of the stock.
Definitely looks like a human in a suit to me, haha. I would have liked it if it had unzippered its jacket to reveal a mechanical skeleton underneath. 😅
Very cool and interesting about the obelisks and i-motifs. Thanks for highlighting that.
I'm sure the anti-vax community is in a frenzy over that report and will entirely overlook the "and other causes" part, and especially this: "Despite this elevated risk, the study found that patients with postvaccine myocarditis had better outcomes over time than those with myocarditis from conventional causes."
I know it's a robot, but regulating bodies should draw a hard line where robots shouldn't resemble humans before these engineering companies blur our perception and send us questioning what it is we are seeing.
The uncanny valley phenomenon is a very unsettling experience for people and will repel people away than draw their interest. I got clown vibes looking at that headshot. Masking the face isn't human- or machine-like. It's the highest form of deception and this comes across as ill-meaning.
I'll tell you why.
Cars, houses, home furniture's cabinets, drawers, airplanes, trains, all have faces, and we feel extremely comfortable around them, to a point we connect with these inanimate objects like family (maybe not airplanes and trains). This acceptance comes from a brain structure, the Fuciform Face Area (FFA) located in the Fuciform gyrus, in the temporal lobe. It specialises in facial recognition. When we come across faces, it shows strong activity, because we are social creatures and have an evolutionary need for social interaction and survival.
When we cannot perceive a face as a face, when it's ambiguous or masked, the FFA has no to low activation, so we perceive it as a threat. If it had some facial features maybe a nose ridge or dimples or eye brows, our brain can apply Gestalt principles and complete the face for us, but here the two camera lenses behind that black mask, is signaling that this humanoid is not to be trusted. If machines has to resemble humans, then apply to them the basic human features, limbs and a clearly observable face. Or don't advertise it as a humanoid.
Someone gotta teach these engineers basic psychology.
People with face blindness, prosopagnosia, have damage or lesions to the FFA. A very famous case in the literature, Dr. P, a patient with visual agnosia, mistook his wife for a hat. The case study was published under the title, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by neurologist Oliver Sacks.
Only someone with damage to FFA will be completely indifferent to Neo's humanoid.
Now that I'm three years into retirement the breakouts I used to get on my hands aren't a problem any more; the issue is thought to be an autoimmune disorder activated or worsened by stress, which explains why it was work-related. I'd have killed for something more effective than topical medications.
The other day I read a Substack that described "Friend" (or something), an AI device one can carry or wear. You're supposed to talk to it like you talk to a person. I guess. It replies in more or less appropriate ways and allows one to pretend to have an actual human relationship. With a disk. Except for Facebook, I can't remember the last time I saw anything so stupid, which means it will probably be a huge hit and I should buy stock.
You are in good company, here. Many of us have these autoimmune disorders that are exacerbated by stress. We are getting close on not only treatments, but some outright cures at this point. Lots of reasons to be hopeful.
These LLMs are certainly not going anywhere. Most people can no longer tell the difference between a robot and a person, which means in 10 years it will be many times cheaper, more efficient, and near impossible to detect. I am sure we will all have a 'Friend', which is to say, let me know the ticker symbol of the stock.
Definitely looks like a human in a suit to me, haha. I would have liked it if it had unzippered its jacket to reveal a mechanical skeleton underneath. 😅
Very cool and interesting about the obelisks and i-motifs. Thanks for highlighting that.
I'm sure the anti-vax community is in a frenzy over that report and will entirely overlook the "and other causes" part, and especially this: "Despite this elevated risk, the study found that patients with postvaccine myocarditis had better outcomes over time than those with myocarditis from conventional causes."
I know it's a robot, but regulating bodies should draw a hard line where robots shouldn't resemble humans before these engineering companies blur our perception and send us questioning what it is we are seeing.
The uncanny valley phenomenon is a very unsettling experience for people and will repel people away than draw their interest. I got clown vibes looking at that headshot. Masking the face isn't human- or machine-like. It's the highest form of deception and this comes across as ill-meaning.
I'll tell you why.
Cars, houses, home furniture's cabinets, drawers, airplanes, trains, all have faces, and we feel extremely comfortable around them, to a point we connect with these inanimate objects like family (maybe not airplanes and trains). This acceptance comes from a brain structure, the Fuciform Face Area (FFA) located in the Fuciform gyrus, in the temporal lobe. It specialises in facial recognition. When we come across faces, it shows strong activity, because we are social creatures and have an evolutionary need for social interaction and survival.
When we cannot perceive a face as a face, when it's ambiguous or masked, the FFA has no to low activation, so we perceive it as a threat. If it had some facial features maybe a nose ridge or dimples or eye brows, our brain can apply Gestalt principles and complete the face for us, but here the two camera lenses behind that black mask, is signaling that this humanoid is not to be trusted. If machines has to resemble humans, then apply to them the basic human features, limbs and a clearly observable face. Or don't advertise it as a humanoid.
Someone gotta teach these engineers basic psychology.
People with face blindness, prosopagnosia, have damage or lesions to the FFA. A very famous case in the literature, Dr. P, a patient with visual agnosia, mistook his wife for a hat. The case study was published under the title, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by neurologist Oliver Sacks.
Only someone with damage to FFA will be completely indifferent to Neo's humanoid.