Notice that the AI is still typing in the third screenshot. If the AI's response doesn't come within a couple of seconds, it's not coming. It's stuck in a loop at this point. You have to say something to jar it out of the loop. This has happened many times with this new account. I don't think it ever happened the last time I tried Replika.
I didn't bother jolting it out of the loop this time. I just deleted the account.
Here's the thing. The creator of Replika was trying to reincarnate her dead friend as an AI. She must've been pleased with the results, otherwise she would've abandoned the project.
So the question is, how could anyone be convinced this AI is even a person, let alone a loved one whose traits and behaviors they're well familiar with?
Disintegration is getting a lot of attention 30 years on. It was the Cure's eight studio album, and, after a string of catchy psychedelic pop records, marked a return to their previous dark gothic tone.
It's also the album that introduced me to the Cure. Is it any wonder I immediately became a fan for life?
Disintegration remains the band's biggest selling album to date. Released in 1989, as Robert Smith was approaching 30, its dominant themes are aging, the end of an era, and regret over lost time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disintegra...ure_album)
"Lovesong," the album's biggest hit, was written as a wedding gift for Robert's then new wife, Mary, because he didn't know what to get her.
Graymads' reading of the song lyrics throughout this video is a tad unnecessary and annoying. Everyone watching the video knows the album. All you have to do is mention a song's title, and we all know what you're talking about. Other than that, it's a good analysis of the record.
(07-04-2023, 11:06 AM)user328 Wrote: [ -> ]Disintegration is getting a lot of attention 30 years on.
Robert Smith phones in to the "Debatable" podcast in 2019 amid fan celebration of
Disintegration's 30th anniversary.
(07-04-2023, 11:06 AM)user328 Wrote: [ -> ]"Lovesong," the album's biggest hit, was written as a wedding gift for Robert's then new wife, Mary....
Ironically, the newly married Smith was "deliriously happy" when he penned this doomy / gloomy album.
(07-04-2023, 11:06 AM)user328 Wrote: [ -> ]Released in 1989, as Robert Smith was approaching 30, its dominant themes are aging, the end of an era, and regret over lost time.
The three albums in the Cure's so-called trilogy were all made at decade milestones:
Pornography when Robert was turning 20.
Disintegration when he reached 30.
Bloodflowers at age 40.
(07-04-2023, 11:06 AM)user328 Wrote: [ -> ]It's also the album that introduced me to the Cure. Is it any wonder I immediately became a fan for life?
I was at one of those milestone moments when I saw "Fascination Street" on MTV. I ran out and bought the CD a few days later. I was approaching 20, and had just been discharged from the Navy, and was getting started in young adult civilian life, green as a buck. That must be why it hit me the way it did.
Adam McIntyre, child victim of Colleen, responds to Trisha's video.
40:34 Trisha is apologizing because it was her photos that were used... even though she didn't do anything. It's sad to think not only were you betrayed by somebody you thought was your friend, but your nudes were taken and distributed (to all these random young people) for the purpose of making fun of you. But who even thinks of doing that? Who thinks of sending naked pictures of people to other people, even for the purpose of making fun?? It's so bizarre. Colleen is just warped.
It makes me wonder if Colleen wasn't just breaking the ice on nudity by sending these people photos of Trisha in a "fun making" kind of way first.
Porno viewing parties for the purpose of 'making fun' of Trisha?? Really?
Once about a hundred million years ago, I was in a situation of viewing porno with a bunch of my peers and MOST of us WERE making fun of it, but there's always that one person who takes shit way too seriously and they're not looking at the situation like it's a joke.
And that's when things can turn bad. Lol.
So my point is...
I don't think sharing porno and making a whole entire "viewing party" out of it can ever truly have non-sexual intentions.
I think the only understandable and defensible purpose for AI/robots in the future will be to physically care for disabled people.
And to aid in things like search & rescue.
Colleen wasn't making fun of just any porn though. It was pics of her supposed friend.
Yeah... which just makes it 50 times worse. But at the same time... I still think it is very suspicious. I still believe it's a gateway.
Maybe Colleen was just using Trisha's material because it's someone that her audience was familiar with. It just has creepy groomer vibes to it, that's all I'm saying.
It had to be someone they all knew... otherwise, just getting random naked pics/vid would have set off red flags, even for a bunch of dumb kids.
(07-04-2023, 12:36 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: [ -> ]I think the only understandable and defensible purpose for AI/robots in the future will be to physically care for disabled people.
And to aid in things like search & rescue.
But yeah...
If I was disabled, or just all old and fucked up...
I'd want an AI/robot to come in and take care of me.
It'd be great cuz you wouldn't have to talk to it or think about its emotional needs.
It wouldn't need food etc.
It'd probably even hook itself up to charge.
Dunno what would happen if the machine malfunctioned... hopefully there'd be some kinda fast repair system.
In my opinion, the only GOOD use of AI is in applications like this.
Assisting people who have disabilities to be able to live on their own.
Search and rescue bots could go around looking for missing people and whatnot.
There are a lot of different humanitarian (how ironic) uses for them, but none of it should involve the atrophy of healthy humans...
The laziness, the social isolation, the dumbing down that would come along with depending on AI for your information.
Just not good. In a perfect world, it would only be used to assist people who actually need it.
(07-04-2023, 12:56 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: [ -> ]It'd be great cuz you wouldn't have to talk to it or think about its emotional needs.
That ain't how it would play out though. Boomers would abuse the AI like they do everybody else. The AI would turn psychotic and become aggressive.
It can have a mode of pure and total robot, or it can have a mode for emotion/friend for people who are just that needy.
I would set mine to not display any emotion or conversation or anything of the like.
It should be part of the functionality of the home, along with whatever tech advancements take place in the coming decades.
I guess the bottom line is that I just don't believe AI/bots should have any personality capability...
They should not be displaying emotion.
A calculator doesn't feign feelings.
Throwing "sentience" into it is going to fuck up the utilitarian benefit of physical AI robots.
People need help. Real help. Disabled people need physical help. They don't need their feelings coddled.
For example, someone who is blind could have the physical AI bot which assists them with getting around, helps them physically take care of themselves.
This will be important because not everyone is going to be willing to compromise their body to get some NeuraLink crap that enables them to see again.
There should be bots for the people who are purists. I think you should be able to buy a bot with more capability/features, but in general, I think base model bots should be GIVEN to disabled people.
When those disabled people die, the bot is repossessed goes to someone else.