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Title: One small step for mankind. One giant step for Pintsize's incarnation
Post by: ChippyD on 04 Jul 2008, 03:58

http://www.futurenerd.net/concept-all-in-one-computer-ball/
I found this on StumbleUpon. I swear this concept model is a set of limbs, a head, and a chauvinistic AI away from being a real life Pintsize.


Is anyone else just a little bit frightened at what the future may hold?

Title: Re: One small step for mankind. One giant step for Pintsize's incarnation
Post by: ThePQ4 on 04 Jul 2008, 08:31

Link doesn't work --or maybe it's just me?

There are actually quite a few Pintsize-like creations out there. (Search function, I'm too lazy to link for the other threads).

Title: Re: One small step for mankind. One giant step for Pintsize's incarnation
Post by: Jepser on 06 Jul 2008, 16:12

Neat, but would it be possible to program Pintsizes kind of behaviour? Or any kind of sincere human behaviour?
Any AI-experts out here?

Title: Re: One small step for mankind. One giant step for Pintsize's incarnation
Post by: taekwondogirl on 06 Jul 2008, 18:45

I don't have a specific link to it or anything but I know MIT's made a robot with an AI that learns and grows to the point it can develop friendships with the students in the class it's for. They wipe its memory at the end of the year and it really gets to them; it's the robot equivalent of death.

As far as how programming itself works, I don't really know much about coding but you could get a static "replica" of a personality just by accepting for a lot of if/then situations, which I imagine ends up taking more time than creating an AI that can develop itself without human input.

Title: Re: One small step for mankind. One giant step for Pintsize's incarnation
Post by: Cagia on 06 Jul 2008, 19:31

It does beg the question, who would be insane enough to program Pintsize's personality?

Title: Re: One small step for mankind. One giant step for Pintsize's incarnation
Post by: Jepser on 07 Jul 2008, 04:50

Some weird scientist who is really missing a buddy he can relate to, prolly.

Title: Re: One small step for mankind. One giant step for Pintsize's incarnation
Post by: Jepser on 07 Jul 2008, 14:02

Or both. *Scary laughter*