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ELIZA
The ELIZA software was created in the 1960’s as a psychoanalyst. Individuals during that time would actually incite a conversation with the software to resolve their issues. However, ELIZA would converse in a roundabout way without offering substantial insight. ELIZA … Continue reading
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Freudian Robot: Death Instinct and Entropy
I was interested in further understanding the link between drawing upon the concept of entropy and converting the law of thermodynamics from one of heat to that of energy. I researched further that entropy is a law describing how nature tends … Continue reading
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The Implications of Computerized Therapy
http://psychcentral.com/lib/computerized-therapy-will-your-next-therapist-be-a-computer/ This linked article describes a future of (as well as come current and past examples) computational therapy. A program mentioned in the Freudian Robot chapter, ELIZA, is described as a program built on the principals of psychologist Carl Rodgers, which … Continue reading
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The Ultimate (Useless) Machine
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323628804578348572687608806 My article was written as recently as 2013, and brings back to light the purpose–or lack thereof–of the Ultimate Machine. Having been invented in the 1950s, the Ultimate Machine had been largely forgotten and unsurprisingly so. The machine is … Continue reading
Contextualization Link
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150806144425.htm This article explains the current project underway to get robots to organize themselves as small groups to accomplish tasks. This requires a new level of communication that might stem out of self awareness or at the very least, Darwinian … Continue reading
Hello Happiness
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/coca-colas-happiness-machines This article relates more to what Miguel had brought up earlier in class with the idea of Happiness Machines. It’s interesting to note how companies have taken to manipulating human emotions to market their products. That’s a pretty harsh … Continue reading
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The Ultimate Machine
For our contextualization day I looked more into the Ultimate Machine. It wasn’t quite as eerie as I had imagined it would be. I thought it would look more like a hand rising from a grave, kind of how many … Continue reading
“Buddhist Robot” and Lydia Liu
At first mention of the Buddhist robot and the fact that the goal of Buddhism is to reach an enlightened state, I immediately thought back to Isaac Asimov’s “Robot Dreams” in which the robot seems to reach another level of … Continue reading
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Artificial Paranoia/Turk
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/671/fall15/resources/colby_71.pdf The above article describes the state of paranoia and the abilities of the researchers to express it in an artificial robot. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2765.htm The above article gives a brief history of the Mechanical Turk and its implications. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/video-turking-for-respect The above … Continue reading
Three Marks of Existence
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism#Three_Marks_of_Existence Buddhism 1. Impermanence– cycle of rebirth 2. Suffering– anxiety, discomfort 3. Not-self– “I” is a construct of the mind
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