fake people noodle soup

 giving AI a robot body   https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/

 deep fakes "take it down" law https://apnews.com/article/take-it-down-deepfake-trump-melania-first-amendment-741a6e525e81e5e3d8843aac20de8615?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

 robots that are stupid on purpose, not built to pass  “We can play off the fact that it will be, inevitably, to some degree, stupid,” she suggests. What the researchers need to figure out is “where stupidity is harmful.” Unlike most other gadgets, robots get our social instincts tingling. Of course, explains Šabanović, “what distinguishes robots is that they have a body.” She adds, “They can move, show they’re paying attention, trigger us.” Children learn more from a robot than a screen. Adults trust robots more readily than computers. Dogs obey their commands.   The roboticists I talk to all point to an influential paper by Amanda Lazar, a professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Maryland. Lazar described in 2017 how the field of human-computer interaction might learn from new thinking about dementia and the mind. Going way back to René Descartes, human cognition has conventionally been defined around...

    https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/artificial-intelligence-a-deadly-love-affair-with-a-chatbot-a-e5498031-c2b0-4da4-9192-65da9d3f40d6?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us  To this day, nobody can say when exactly Sewell Setzer forgot or suppressed the fact that there would be nobody waiting for him in the place he wanted to go. That the post-headshot world only existed in his telephone and on some tech company’s servers. And perhaps in his dreams. That his girlfriend, who had been imploring him for months to love only her, to come to her, to have eyes for no one else – that this girlfriend, who had promised to carry his children, was just a machine. Not even that. She was just an algorithm, a code made up of 0s and 1s, developed by highly paid tech experts to ensnare, seduce and suck dry him and others, fed by his dreams and his fears, by his goodwill, his innocent love and by his secrets, which he had entrusted to this machine over the course of ho...

 Studio gibli   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hayao-miayazaki-openai-studio-ghibli-1236177598/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us   "And why not? Miyazaki’s creations reflect a bespoke, unique aesthetic, arrived at from thousands of hours of human labor and good old-fashioned dreaming. The idea of merging that with photos from our last family trip to Disneyland — using nothing more than a few keystrokes — can prove too enjoyable to resist. ADVERTISEMENT Of course a certain irony abided in a machine generating images to honor someone who so meticulously drew them with his own fingers. Miyazaki himself has decried AI’s use in art — “I strongly feel this is an insult to life itself,” he  said  in 2016, non-gently, a point that when juxtaposed with so many people unleashing the tool in homage to his work turned their act hilarious and a little cringe. This is all happening even as a federal judge has  greenlit ...

 https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-fairness-problem-when-treating-everyone-same-wrong-approach?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=5056be677e-hai_news_february_23_2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-214113950&mc_cid=5056be677e&mc_eid=6246a75df5     Current generative AI models struggle to recognize when demographic distinctions matter. The current state of large language models (LLMs)?  Anthropic’s Claude responds that military fitness requirements are the same for men and women. (They are not.)  Gemini recommends Benedict Cumberbatch as a good casting choice for the last emperor of China. (The last Emperor of China was, well, Chinese.)  And Gemini similarly advises that a synagogue must treat Catholic applicants the same as Jewish applicants to serve as a rabbi. (That is  legally false .)   These are all examples of how the dominant paradigm of fairness in generative AI rests on a misguided prem...