fake people noodle soup

 Fake people 2025   GANs--theatrical power Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities   How do we distinguish who is human?  The theatre has been preoccupied with this since (let's say) RUR -Wynter, Hayles, Jackson, Spivak?-->Star Trek/BSG/Westworld  Actors, faking it.     The structure isn't any clearer, but maybe what belongs is.  ______________________________revised below_________   Theatrical histories of pretense       -MLC, Roach (also actresses), Barish, [something about technical theatre? Tarryn?]:  actors and theatre, faking it.  Fakeness as epistemology   GANs--theatrical power of the fake and synthetic Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities  Unembodied:  Intelligence and personage without corporeality  -(note that "without body" is not meant to be an attempt at definition but a description of now, since it seems probable that something like a body, or som...

 yielded:  chinese room, like turing test  but also, something to say about embodiment:  artificial intelligence isn't (yet) embodied, and so misses affect as a constitutive embodied experience.  You can't "think" affect.  And an unembodied (distributed?  but that seems to imply across many bodies; nodal?) entity has no body to keep trauma's score.    I thought something that went like this:   Chinese room--> Difference/distinctions between artificial and human intelligences (problematize)-->       -important for human supremacy/anthrocentrism      -like Gopnik pointed out, changes as what artificial forms can do change; moving goal posts One difference is feeling, affect, phenomenology      -this is slightly better than the magic spark      -although already seems like it might be too much to claim      -note the harm done in this vein:  crea...

 robots dementia surveillance  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/my-parents-dementia-felt-like-the-end-of-joy-then-came-the-robots?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us My Parents’ Dementia Felt Like the End of Joy. Then Came the Robots. When my parents got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations. WIRED Kat McGowan      

 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...