#robots and AI systems

[pddparthi]

The Ethical Considerations of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

The rapid advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have brought forth a multitude of ethical considerations of robotics that need to be carefully examined. As robots and AI systems become more integrated into our daily lives, it is essential to reflect upon the potential impact they can have on society, individuals, and the ethical values we hold. In this article, we…

[beepboopappreciation]

Shoutout to robot and AI enjoyers who post about overlooked characters

Shoutout to robot and AI enjoyers who reblog posts about overlooked characters

Shoutout to robot and AI enjoyers who write fics about overlooked characters

Shoutout to robot and AI enjoyers who draw fanart of overlooked characters

Shoutout to overlooked robot and AI characters

Raising a glass for all of the Johnny 5 fans, the Robot Jones fans, the Colossus fans, the WX-78 fans, the Momo fans, the SHODAN fans, the Mr. Smith fans, the Cortana fans,

Fans of each and every single robot and AI character who doesn't get enough recognition,,,,, this one's for you!!!!!

[hazyaltcare]

Typing Quirk Suggestions for a Robot kin

I hope it gives you a wonderful uptime! :3

Mod Vintage (⭐)

Letter replacements:

Replace "O" with zeroes "0"

Replace "i" or "L" with ones "1"

Replace "one" with "1", including "one" sounds like "any1", or "we 1 = we won" (the past tense of "win")

Replace "zero" with "0"

Frankly, you can just replace all sorts of letters with numbers, such as

R = 12

N = 17

B = 8

A = 4

E = 3

etc.

or maybe make all "A"s and "i"s capitalized, cause "A.I." (artificial intelligence

Prefixes and Suffixes:

Get inspired by programming languages!

Begin your text with "//" like a comment on C++

If you prefer other languages comment tags, you can use "< !--your text-- >"

Or maybe begin it with " int main () { std::cout << "your text"" and end with "return 0; }" like C++ too

Greet people with the classic "Hello world!"

Or greet people with "beep boop!" honestly, I have no idea where this comes from, but it's cute.

Or write down html stuff, like sandwiching your italicized text with "< em> "

The possibilities are endless!

Robot Lingo:

(under the cut because there's a LOT! maybe terabytes! ...just kidding >;3c)

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some of these are from the machinesoul.net robot server! (not sponsored) (we're not in there anymore, but we saw the robot lingo shared there when we were)

Fronting = logged in, connected

Not fronting = logged out, disconnected

Conscious = activated

Dormant = deactivated

Blurry = no signal

Upset, angry = hacked

Small = bits, bytes

Bite = byte

Huge = gigabytes, terabytes, etc.

Your intake of food, medicine, etc. = input

Your artwork, cooking, handiwork, handwriting, etc. = output

Body = chassis, unit

Brain = CPU, processor

Mind = program, code

Imagination = simulation

Purpose = directive

Nerves = wires

Skin = plating

Organs = (function) units

Limbs = actuators

Eyes = ocular sensors

Glasses = HUD (head's up display)

Hair = wires

Ears = antennae, audio sensors

Nose = olfactory sensors

Heart = core

Liver = detoxification unit

Circulatory system = circuits

Voice = speaker, voice module, voice box

Mouth = face port

Name = designation

Sleep = sleep mode, low power mode, charging

Eat = fuel, batteries

Energy = batteries

Tired = low on batteries

Translate = compile

Memory = data, database

Bed = recharge pod/charger

Dreaming = simulation

Birthday = day of manufacture

Talking = communicating

Thinking = processing

Transitioning = modifying your chassis

Depression = downtime

Joy = uptime

Trash = scrap metal

Fresh/Clean = polished

Keysmashing = random 1s and 0s

Self-care = system maintenance

Going to the doctor = trip to the mechanic

Group = network

Anyone = anybot

[twptwp]

Ancient sentient security system GLOMA

It is powered by something mysterious. Gloma continues to guard the walls and inner workings of a kingdom despite it now being deserted for thousands upon thousands of years.

It guards the kingdom just as seriously as it did when the place was inhabited implying that either the kingdom still holds a grave secret or that Gloma itself is stuck in the past and simply following set instructions.

There is a lot of money offered to those who can figure out what lays within this dead kingdom. This interests Bunbaa

[multiplicity-positivity]

Here’s some positivity for robot headmates!

Many systems may find that they have members who are nonhuman in some way. Robot headmates may form for a variety of reasons, and they are all special, wonderful, and integral parts of their system and our spaces. Robot headmates, you deserve to be acknowledged and celebrated - so this one’s for you!

🤖 Shoutout to headmates who are introjects of real or fictional robots!

⚙️ Shoutout to headmates whose robot identities correlate to the role they play in their system!

🦾 Shoutout to headmates who are often so dissociated that they feel like a robot!

🤖 Shoutout to robot headmates who are nonhuman, alterhuman, or both a human and a robot at the same time!

⚙️ Shoutout to headmates who are androids, machines, computers, or AI!

🦾 Shoutout to headmates whose robot identities are rooted in abuse, neglect, or some other form of trauma!

🤖 Shoutout to robot headmates who struggle with feeling, processing, managing, or regulating emotions!

⚙️ Shoutout to headmates whose gender, sexuality, and romantic orientation are influenced by being a robot!

🦾 Shoutout to robot headmates who have difficulties relating to others and forming/maintaining positive relationships!

🤖 Shoutout to robot headmates who deal with most of their system’s depersonalization, derealization, or other dissociative symptoms!

Robot headmates, please know that you are so loved and cherished just the way you are. You are an important part of your system and the plural community just the way you are, and your voice deserves to be heard, acknowledged, and uplifted. We hope that you can find peace, happiness, and fulfillment in your life, whatever that looks like for you!

We sincerely hope that you can find ways to bring you euphoria and self-acceptance as the AI, machine, computer, or object that you are! Regardless of how you feel about your robotic identity, know that you belong in our spaces and we are so happy to have you here. Thanks so much for reading, and have a wonderful day!

[offlineblues]

aiyu's unexpected interruption

[f0ntainefuturistics]

Not enough people talk about SHODAN whenever we talk abt AI characters

Look at her!! She’s so pretty!!!

We need more fem appearing evil robots/AI in media, there’s not enough cool ones and if u have any recs I will HAPPILY take them!!!

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for : a spaceship ai kin with space themes, computer stuff, and the colour red without gifs that include human hands requested by a system member for their system's host

x | x | x x | x | x x | x | x

[catboldbot]

please please PLEASE can people stop making the distinction "generative AI is bad, analytical AI is fine and good"

the same analytical AI that is being used to identify cancer cells or interpret handwriting or whatever entirely reasonable use you want to bring up is ALSO being used to try to identify protestors in surveillance footage or to make robotic weapons platforms or to deny insurance claims or job applicants or whatever

it is never about the technology itself! it is always about the conditions that allow someone to unilaterally abuse that technology. you will never find the distinction between things that are fine and good and things that are ontologically evil, PLEASE stop trying

[biomorphic-beast]

[theecosystemdid]

AI Introject/ Kin Flag!

An Aesthetic Flag For Introjects / Kins of Artificial Intelligence or Introjects/ Kins of sources associated with Artificial Intelligence

First generalized topic flag that I’ve made! I’ve explained before why I wanted to make this but I’ll explain again. Not every source either has an appearance or is accessible by people, for example, introjects and kins of OCs, concepts, podcast, etc. This makes it easier for those introjects/ kins to be represented!

And granted while we have made an RK900 flag before this was something our Nines Introject wanted me to make -🦇

[artroidsart]

"How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"

Now THIS Goddess, I haven't drawn in FOREVER! Among my vast array of hyper fixations, A.I. characters have always lived rent free in my brain. Long term fans of mine may have seen SHODAN on my page before, but I wanted to revamp my design for her.  For SHODAN here, I wanted her to have a powerful, goddess look. A big halo, flowing hair, and a goddess dress with bangles all over. She even has a crown! I don't usually draw strands of hair, but I felt like SHODAN needed some glowing highlights. 

Anyway, have you guys checked out the System Shock remake? It looks AMAZING!!! I'm so glad it was finished! Here's hoping the team can remaster System Shock 2 next! (Although, the remake took FOREVER, so I know it'll take a hot minute for the sequel. Oof) The remake is actually what inspired me to draw SHODAN again. I definitely plan on drawing other Evil AIs too, like GLaDOS or AM. (Portal and IHNMAIMS, respectively.)

[frank-olivier]

Bayesian Active Exploration: A New Frontier in Artificial Intelligence

The field of artificial intelligence has seen tremendous growth and advancements in recent years, with various techniques and paradigms emerging to tackle complex problems in the field of machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. Two of these concepts that have attracted a lot of attention are active inference and Bayesian mechanics. Although both techniques have been researched separately, their synergy has the potential to revolutionize AI by creating more efficient, accurate, and effective systems.

Traditional machine learning algorithms rely on a passive approach, where the system receives data and updates its parameters without actively influencing the data collection process. However, this approach can have limitations, especially in complex and dynamic environments. Active interference, on the other hand, allows AI systems to take an active role in selecting the most informative data points or actions to collect more relevant information. In this way, active inference allows systems to adapt to changing environments, reducing the need for labeled data and improving the efficiency of learning and decision-making.

One of the first milestones in active inference was the development of the "query by committee" algorithm by Freund et al. in 1997. This algorithm used a committee of models to determine the most meaningful data points to capture, laying the foundation for future active learning techniques. Another important milestone was the introduction of "uncertainty sampling" by Lewis and Gale in 1994, which selected data points with the highest uncertainty or ambiguity to capture more information.

Bayesian mechanics, on the other hand, provides a probabilistic framework for reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty. By modeling complex systems using probability distributions, Bayesian mechanics enables AI systems to quantify uncertainty and ambiguity, thereby making more informed decisions when faced with incomplete or noisy data. Bayesian inference, the process of updating the prior distribution using new data, is a powerful tool for learning and decision-making.

One of the first milestones in Bayesian mechanics was the development of Bayes' theorem by Thomas Bayes in 1763. This theorem provided a mathematical framework for updating the probability of a hypothesis based on new evidence. Another important milestone was the introduction of Bayesian networks by Pearl in 1988, which provided a structured approach to modeling complex systems using probability distributions.

While active inference and Bayesian mechanics each have their strengths, combining them has the potential to create a new generation of AI systems that can actively collect informative data and update their probabilistic models to make more informed decisions. The combination of active inference and Bayesian mechanics has numerous applications in AI, including robotics, computer vision, and natural language processing. In robotics, for example, active inference can be used to actively explore the environment, collect more informative data, and improve navigation and decision-making. In computer vision, active inference can be used to actively select the most informative images or viewpoints, improving object recognition or scene understanding.

Timeline:

1763: Bayes' theorem

1988: Bayesian networks

1994: Uncertainty Sampling

1997: Query by Committee algorithm

2017: Deep Bayesian Active Learning

2019: Bayesian Active Exploration

2020: Active Bayesian Inference for Deep Learning

2020: Bayesian Active Learning for Computer Vision

The synergy of active inference and Bayesian mechanics is expected to play a crucial role in shaping the next generation of AI systems. Some possible future developments in this area include:

- Combining active inference and Bayesian mechanics with other AI techniques, such as reinforcement learning and transfer learning, to create more powerful and flexible AI systems.

- Applying the synergy of active inference and Bayesian mechanics to new areas, such as healthcare, finance, and education, to improve decision-making and outcomes.

- Developing new algorithms and techniques that integrate active inference and Bayesian mechanics, such as Bayesian active learning for deep learning and Bayesian active exploration for robotics.

Dr. Sanjeev Namjosh: The Hidden Math Behind All Living Systems - On Active Inference, the Free Energy Principle, and Bayesian Mechanics (Machine Learning Street Talk, October 2024)

Saturday, October 26, 2024

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay on the topic of crack treated seriously crossover isekai with mdzs, I've been batting about the daycare attendant from fnaf getting reborn into... Someone.

My first thought was obviously wwx, cuz main character, excellent wild card. I considered lxc, all smiley with a heavy heart and too much responsibility trying to care for everyone even as it ruins him. I considered NHS or jgy for that manic rodent customer service energy, I considered xy for his demonic cultivation and intensity, even jyl if you really wanted to lean into the crack energy, and also Moon snapping would be Excellent crouching tiger energy.

I also considered jc.

The thing about the robot DA, if you don't know,

Half is Sun, a frustrated, overworked, sarcastic mf dealing with his alter ai going insane and trying to kill/kidnap the kids they protect. He's anxiety riddled, pithy to adults, a bit of a control freak trying to scrabble together a semblance of balance in a steadily collapsing situation while trying to maintain himself while being terminally neglected. His sanity is hanging by a thread.

Its alternate, Moon, appears whenever it's naptime - ie, when the lights go out. Moon is an uncanny security guard of the pizza plex (imagine a giant themed mall slash party venue that fails basically every osha compliance) that acrobatically hunts down anything that moves when the other animatronics (basically tortured androids let's be real) are in recharge. Moon is corrupted by a semi computer semi haunted magic virus that makes him evil. Sun is left the responsibility of keeping it locked up in his head by never, ever, resting, or by being in the dark.

By the end of the games, sun and moon, the DA, is a shell of his former self. Despite being a multi million investment as a highly marketed, one of a kind animatronic with a worryingly lifelike ai (or two), the DA is abandoned by its creators and left to rot in the slowly crumbling ruins of the daycare, along with the half destroyed and monstrous forms of its fellow animatronics who aimlessly, sightlessly roam the halls. Sun is huddled in the last beam of light from a jacked generator, and when that finally dies moon is reduced to little more than a manmade beast in the dark as they too slowly run out of power, their powerful battery long stolen and grafted into someone else. Their kingdom boarded up and half destroyed, their own private apocalypse they cannot escape, the DA begs the next person he sees for a total reboot. The combined personality, eclipse, is a gentle and naive thing unable to perceive the reality of its situation. Until it runs out of power, it will be placid and calm, lost in its illusion of the past. It is, essentially, requested euthanasia. It's the kindest send off anything else in the pizza plex gets.

So, a snarky, bitchy guy with huge abandonment issues sick of trying to corral unruly kids without reward, constantly overlooked and frankly neglected in favour of the more successful and popular siblings, with deep rooted trauma about losing his core, too much responsibility and no support, desperately trying to keep himself from lashing out and causing irreparable damage and kinda failing? Who just wants to play stupid games and stop having to shoulder everything himself? Fiercely protective of children but also not immune to pettiness?

Yeah, at that point it's not even a question. Let's give jc an identity disorder and a crippling fear of water.

[venterry]

grows up predominantly with scifi, keeps making worlds and writing stories and saying "oh its nothing its just fantasy lol"

> look inside

> its scifi

[dunyun-rings]

do you ever think about how both the dinosaurs and the automated systems of Jurassic Park fall into chaos? It’s a much larger part of the book, but it’s also the main issue for the second half of the movie. Not only did John Hammond and co plan to monetize the hell out of the delicate science/ethics of extinct animal cloning (in the book he explains that while there’s a cap on how much he can drive up the price of pharmaceuticals, which he had done up until recently, there are no laws about charging people to see cloned dinosaurs on this island outside of any major gov’t), he also automated every last part of the process that he could.

anyway I just think there’s something to be said about the chaotic nature of automated systems (*cough* AI). It’s depressing how relevant the themes of that book continue to be 30+ years later