Addie Wagenknecht, Self portrait–loneliness is what we can’t do for each other. IKB dry pigment and resin on canvas. 80 x 90 in / 203.2 x 228.6 cm. 2017. Courtesy of bitforms gallery.
[…] as we become more dependent on digital devices to mediate our actions and interactions, we begin to experience them as “creatures” instead of machines and form bonds with them.
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Amygdala uses adaptive neural networks to learn a ritual of skin cutting by training on itself. By exploring its own body and environment the robot learn how to move and how to cut its skin.
Amygdala is a project by Marco Donnarumma.
Savioke obviously thinks we are all into kissing and taking selfies with robots that mostly look like garbage bins on weels.
Does he have a favourite robot? “I actually do. 64117. There’s a kind of leaderboard system that tracks each drive unit [a droid in Amazon lingo, Ed.], and I follow them all. 64117 has travelled only 164 metres the whole time it’s been here. It’s the laziest drive we’ve got. It’s got the work/life balance worked out.”
[…] actually you can teach robots things in VR, such that the robot experiences everything the way that it will experience it when doing the job itself.
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Ishiguro believes that since we’re hardwired to interact with and place our faith in humans, the more humanlike we can make a robot appear, the more open we’ll be to sharing our lives with it.
Impersonate a self-driving car and experience how complicated that problem is.
(Probably also the best use of VR I’ve ever seen so far.)
