Can Robots Be Turned Into a Machine of Loving-Kindness?

No one could say exactly when the robots arrived. Apparently they were smuggled into the camps during recess without any notice, explanation, or warning. There were twelve available: six-wheeled, chest-shaped boxes with small yellow flags on top for display. They traversed roads near the campus using cameras, radars, and artificial sensors. He was there for the students, carrying the packers through the university food program, but everyone I know who works at the school had a story about their first meeting.

The stories were shared, first of all, with excitement or a sad note. Several people complained that the machines used free bikes but did not know their conditions: They refuse to submit to pedestrians and walk slowly down the road, passing cars. One morning a friend of mine, a classmate who had been late for class, pushed his bicycle behind the boat, trying to get on the road, but it just kept going, unnoticed. A friend of mine found a bot that was caught inactive on a motorcycle. It was heavy, and he had to ask a passerby for help to free him. “Unfortunately, it was just a motorcycle,” he said. Just wait for them to start colliding with bicycles and moving cars. ”

Among the students, the only problem was overeating. Bots were often raised during childbirth because students strive to take selfies and machines outside of dormitories or socialize. The robots had limited communication skills – they could greet and greet and say “Thank you, have a great day!” when he rolled over — yet this was enough to appeal to as many people as creatures. Bots often return to their sites with the following information: Hello, robot! and We love you! They encouraged the proliferation of memes on the media page at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Another student wore a bot in a hat and handkerchief, cut out a photo, and made her profile on a dating program. The name was spelled Onezerozerooneoneone, aged 18. Occupation: sending boi. Detection: experimental robot.

During this time autonomous machines were coming out of the country. The grocery store was used to tour the streets, looking for trash and garbage. Walmart notified its senior management to keep the inventory available. A New York Times The report stated that many of the robots had been baptized with their names and co-workers and given badges. One was thrown on a birthday, where they were given, among other gifts, a bucket of WD-40 oil. The article published these myths randomly, in particular, as harmless events, but the same genetics was already driving the government’s attention. In 2017 the European Parliament ruled that robots should be considered “electronic persons,” stating that some forms of AI were advanced enough to be considered supervisors. There were legal differences, which were made according to medical law, although the language seems to call for an ancient, living organism in which all kinds of inanimate objects – trees and rocks, pipes and kettles – are considered inhuman “humans”.

It made me think of the opening of the 1967 poem by Richard Brautigan, “All Overlooked by the Love Machine”:

I like to think (and
soon!)
of cybernetic dome
where animals and computers
stay together in harmony
software in conjunction
like pure water
touching the white sky.

Brautigan wrote these lines in the summer of Love, from the center of nature in San Francisco, where he was a poet living at the California Institute of Technology. The poet’s writings vividly describe the fascinating environment of “cybernetic forests” and computer-like computers, a world in which digital technologies reconnect us with “our mammal brothers and sisters,” in which humans and robots and animals can be equated. The project brings to light a part of West Coast utopianism, which commemorates the return journey by Stewart Brand’s Global Catalog, which assumes that the tools of the American industry were also transformed to bring about a more balanced and natural world. It focuses on the technological possibilities that have brought us so far back in antiquity – the prehistoric and possibly pre-Christian era, in which humans live in harmony with nature and inanimate objects enjoy life.

Dreams of this dream are still available in professional discussions. It is said by them, like MIT’s David Rose, who thinks that the internet of things will soon “delight” everyday things, inserting door doors, thermostats, refrigerators, and cars responsibly and intelligently. It can be found in the writings of posthumous scholars such as Jane Bennett, who thinks of digital technology that reverses the way we feel about “dead things” and revives the old form of “living, enduring, unconscious, or remodeling that is the only source of wonder for us.”

“I Love to Think” begins each section of Brautigan poetry, a word that does not look like a poem instead of a secret ritual. This vision of the future may be an alternative, but it is a compelling one, simply because of its similarity. It seems that it is only right that technology should bring back to us the magical world that technology has destroyed. Perhaps the forces that enabled us to be expelled from Eden will one day restore our garden and digital life. Probably the only way to escape is to cross it.