Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: AI/Robotics
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Way back four years ago, I posted the first part of what I thought would be a series on robots, artificial, and theology. I guess life got in the way of that but given I’m doing some writing on AI at the moment and that things like ChatGPT and Bard are all the rage, it’s…
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I’ve spent a bit of time today going through web links that have been archived in the “Research” folder this year. Here’s a selection of things related to various technological and transhumanist fronts.
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This time we’ll look at two comic-based films based on Japanese manga set on post-apocalyptic contexts. Firstly, Akira directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, set in a future Neo-Tokyo, and then, Alita: Battle Angel, set in a similar environment. Both of these, as well as a slew of other Japanese manga turned into film and television, del…
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Robots, religion and theology are back on my agenda, and seem to be cropping up increasingly in my social media feeds and email. It seems that religious communities have woken up firstly, to the fact that the creation of systems that appear intelligent might have implications for how we think about ourselves, our belief systems…
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Clearing out some links relating to artificial intelligence from my browser bar. The Next Web – How will AI affect my faith and religion in general? A few lightweight reflections on AI in relation to religion The Conversation – Could an artificial intelligence be considered a person under the law? Interesting piece on how law in…
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An article following on from the one the other day – though from a different source. This time, work on creating a hand with human-like dexterity as part of a larger project to create robots that interact with the everyday world. Combine this form of inductive learning with the ‘pain’ sensitivity of the other robotic…
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While we’re working to insulate ourselves from pain, we’re also working to make robots feel it. Makes for some interesting ethical scenarios about both human and machine pain. An artificial nervous system aimed at teaching robots how to feel pain is being developed by German researchers. Source: Robots to be taught how to feel pain
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The blog’s been pretty quiet while I’ve been concentrating on other things. One of those other things is a research project looking at post- and transhumanism in popular culture, and particularly in film. One of those projects has been the development of a couple of blogs to track that. The first of these is underway…
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A while ago, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, theology and robots was a topic that generated a number of books and publications including the ones below: “God In the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God” (Anne Foerst) “God and the Mind Machine: Artificial Intelligence” (John C. Puddefoot) “From Human to…
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IEEE Spectrum has a new chart up of different robots the mimic human babies and children in various ways (on capabilities vs. appearance axes). See IEEE Spectrum: Invasion of the Robot Babies (Infographic) for that and some other interesting links on humanoid robotics. Of course, if you have time and access to the DVD, a…