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Singularity

In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful artificial intelligence. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) exists to confront this urgent challenge, both the opportunity and the risk.

To learn more about SIAI's charitable purpose, begin with What is the Singularity? and Why Work Toward the Singularity?, followed by Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk.

Robots installation

performance of "Robots-in-Residence: Give the Robots a Voice"CAVI

Artists' statement by Mark Polishook

E-mail that the audience sends to Robots-in-Residence during a performance is processed through a chatterbot to create dialogues which, during the installation, are heard as conversations spoken by the voices of a speech synthesizer.

From its analysis of e-mail/chatterbot dialogues, the Robots-in-Residence system knows when to instruct its robots to move. Once the robots have received cues from the system, they can contort, dance, gesticulate, gyrate, jump, shake, sleep, and stretch. Through examinations of the dialogues, the Robots-in-Residence system also knows how to control the pace and structure of the music that it always composes continuously and algorithmically.

The music features computer-generated timbres and recordings of the voices of women commenting on the role of technolgy in contemporary culture. The music, since it measures and give context to the spoken dialogues, can be conceptualized as robotic melodrama.

Visitors to the installation can send e-mail to Robots-in-Residence from computer terminals located right next to the robots. Through such interaction, the audience and the robots participate in defining the look of the installation. To amplify the perception of interaction among audience members and the Robots-in-Residence system, transcripts of the e-mail/chatterbot dialogues and video of the audience moving among the robots appears on monitors in the installation space and also on the Robots-in-Residence www site. Copies of the transcripts are sent electronically and automatically to audience members who send e-mail to the installation. The notion of dialogue and collaboration amongs humans and machine raises fascinating questions about the conditions and philosophy of human/machine interaction.

For example, do humans through their e-mails to Robots-in-Residence interact with the installation? Or, is it more apt to say that through their e-mails to the Robots-in-Residence system, humans become an extension of the installation and the system? How do the electronic networks with which we collaborate, shape and re-shape our ideas and our identity? Should we see that robots, and the networks of which they are a part, embody utopian perspectives about progress, in which machines complement and extend human capability? Or, should we consider that robots and networks may speak to a bleak future in which technology erases humanism and individuality? How do robots and the networks in which they participate influence, extend, support, or undermine the rituals and tasks to which we apply such technology?

Robot can be your best friend :)

At the Cebit technology fair, David Hanson of Hanson Robotics displays his "character toy", a robot that can "become your friend".