Gatebox Waifu, and More of the Lotus Machine

[jeff_duntemann]

Somebody I follow on Twitter (don't recall who) posted a link to a video about a new product out of Japan called Gatebox. It's a little round 3-D video display roughly the size

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[apostle_of_eris]

By definition, a program that behaves unpredictably isn't working right.
By definition, intelligence is unpredictable.

[jeff_duntemann]

Well, heck, in 1983 I wrote a Turbo Pascal program that pulled letters at random and built names for aliens that were at least modestly pronounceable. It was predictable that it created names, but the names themselves were unpredictable. So if we write software to generate unpredictable results, I consider that software correct, if that is in fact what we wanted.

Intelligence is broadly predictable, and narrowly unpredictable. We'll have artificial intelligence before we have artificial human intelligence, but sooner or later we'll probably have it. (I've gotten more optimistic as the years have passed.)