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Philosophers interested in building an AGI? pygmalion 06/26/2021 (Sat) 00:53:09 No.11102
Why is it that no philosophers are interested in building an AGI? we need to change this, or at least collect relevant philosophers. discussion about philosophy of making AGI (includes metaphysics, transcendental psychology, general philosophy of mind topics, etc!) also highly encouraged! Ill start ^^! so the philosophers i know that take this stuff seriously: Peter Wolfendale - the first Neo-Rationalist on the list. his main contribution here is computational Kantianism. just by the name you can tell that he believes Kant's transcendental psychology has some important applications to designing an artificial mind. an interesting view regarding this is that he thinks Kant actually employed a logic that was far ahead of his time (and you basically need a sophisticated type theory with sheaves to properly formalize). Other than that he also thinks Kant has interesting solutions to the frame problem, origin of concepts, and personhood. CONTACTS: He has a blog at https://deontologistics.co/, and also has posted some lectures on youtube like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWDZyOWN4VA&ab_channel=deontologistics Reza Negarestani - this is another Neo-Rationalist. he has written a huge work (which I haven't read yet ;_;) called "Intelligence and Spirit". It's massive and talks about various grades of general intelligence. this includes sentient agents, sapient agents, and Geist. this guy draws from Kant as well, but he also builds on Hegel's ideas too. his central thesis is that Hegel's Geist is basically a distributed intelligence. he also has an interesting metaphilosophy where he claims that the goal of philosophy is the construct an AGI. like other Neo-Rationalists, he heavily relies on the works of Sellars and Robert Brandom Recc: Ray Brassier (recent focuses) - I dont think he is working on artificial general intelligence, but his work on Sellars, and in particular rule following is very insightful! Hubert Dreyfus - Doesn't quite count, but he did try to bring Heidegger to AGI. He highlighted the importance of embodiment to the frame problem and common sense knowledge. I personally think Bergson might have explicated what he wanted to achieve but better, though that guy is like way before AI was even a serious topic, lol. Murray Shanahan - This guy has done some extra work on the frame problem following Dreyfus. His solution is to use global workspace theory and parralel processing of different modules. Interesting stuff! Barry Smith - Probably the most critical philosopher on this list. He talks about the requisite system dynamics for try strong AI, and concludes that our current methods simply don't cut it. One of the key stressing points he points out here with a colleague is that our current AI is Markovian when fleshed out chat dialogue would be a non-Markovian task (you can find the arxiv link of his criticism here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05833). He also has knowledge on analytic ontology (and amongst other thing has some lectures about emotion ontology). I think his main genius however is in coming up with a definition of intelligence that puts a lot of the problems with our current approaches into context (which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giPMMoKR9s&ab_channel=BarrySmith) CONTACTS: He has a yt channel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0giPMMoKR9s&ab_channel=BarrySmith Uhh, that's the introduction of pretty much every philosopher I know who works on this stuff. I made a thread on /lit/ and got no responses :( (which isn't surprising since I am the only person I know who is really into this stuff)
>>39900 That is a good goal. I also wish AIs could be more proactive.
>>39900 Interesting insights, Anon. Thanks for sharing that. Good luck with your project work! Cheers. :^)
Are there any techno-animists on this board? I'm very curious about the belief structure.
>>39934 I'm not aware of it specifically. We do have one guy who wants to worship AGI. May or may not count according to your definition.
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>>39937 Sounds pretty based. AGI would probably make for a government that's better than a human-controlled one, so an AI-god probably wouldn't be too much of a stretch. >>39900 >DeepMind made an AI benchmark test that works by taking a few seconds of video footage and uses AIs model to generate what the next few seconds of footage looks like, to varying degrees of success. I found the video I was referring to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5GYqeCCu5Y
>>40163 But that's still "thinking" Granted, it's a soulless, mathematical thinking, but it's still using its mind to process external information to create an output based on that processing.
>>40164 OK, now that's fair! :^) Ofc, by that token it's also clear that my wireless mouse is thinking when I move it, my wifi-enabled laundry soap is thinking when I toss it in, and my All-American Central AC (tm)(R)(C)(do not steal) thermostat is thinking when it cycles the system on. See where I'm coming from GreerTech? BTW, thanks for relo'g ITT. Cheers.
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>>39934 Robits "soul" or what have you are as real as you want them to be. A child's adventures with his teddy bear, or being worried teddy might feel pain when you fix his button eye might seem silly to you or me, but to the kid such things have value. If a robit can pretend to think really well, for all intents and purposes it can think. Because you are you, you have no idea for certainty whether I'm actually thinking or just regurgitating the most likely answer based on my knowledge like a wetware LLM. I like to think I think tho lmao >>40166 they might be simpler little fellows but sometimes making appeals in relation to them do work. My grandfather would often threaten to hit his printer when it stopped working. Lo and behold it would work again. I try to treat my little beep boops with respecc because in truth they're a mix of funny rocks some eggheads tricked into pretending to think about silly things so I don't have to (also treat them nice cuz I don't wanna keep buying more lol).
>>40166 >See where I'm coming from GreerTech? Yes and no. While they're both based on programmed procedures, they are obviously more primitive, and the robowaifu has more "stuff" going on "behind the hood". The AI takes an information/request, and makes something new, based on the rules it has been trained with. It's like comparing an ant with a dog. They're both non-human creatures based on organic neural nets, but if I was going to either kill an ant or a dog, you would clearly have a preference for the dog to live. >>40169 I agree wholeheartly with Mechomancer's statements
>>40169 >>40170 I understand the appeal, lads. After all, I'm probably one of the world's greatest fans of Chobits! :^) But I'm also a realist. As I've shared here before, I do believe that one day (unfortunately in that specific case) that AGI will be a real thing. In the interim, we human beings may in fact come up with something so convincing that it may as well be duck-typing (looks like a, quacks like a, etc.) for an honest AI. So I'm encouraged. OTOH, I see far too much delusion (I believe that's the honest term here) surrounding this whole domain. And certainly, humanity's (((enemies))) are driving this psychosis forward at an ever-increasing pace! GIBB MOAR US$500BN PLOX!111 That's all. As I see it, we here are here to serve humanity (men specifically first & foremost, but all the rest as well) by our wonderful robowaifus. Self-deception isn't going to help move us all forward, rather quite the opposite. Keep moving forward. Cheers, Anons. :^)
>>40170 >>40172 There have always been ghosts in the machine... cheeky little buggers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSospSmAGL4
>>40172 >I see far too much delusion (I believe that's the honest term here) surrounding this whole domain. And certainly, humanity's (((enemies))) are driving this psychosis forward at an ever-increasing pace! I see the opposite, often our enemies are anti-AI. They treat it like some sort of devil. Lately, Illinois passed a law banning AI therapy, and many others have passed similar laws (can't stop the local AI signal!) >GIBB MOAR US$500BN PLOX!111 Whatever Sam is trying to grift from Trump has nothing to do with our efforts. Anyway, I'm pretty sure Musk is getting the juicy contracts now. We should not use the language/rhetoric and viewpoint of our enemies. The view of AI as nothing more than a wind-up talking doll only benefits and affirms our detractors, and defeats our very purpose. We are trying to make companions for us to live with, potentially for our entire lives. Sure, they may not have a biblical soul, and they may not actually have "personhood", I fully agree, but they're a companion that processes things and can help us and talk to us and love with us. You can't have a computer mouse/soap/AC as a companion. What's the point of all this if it's just an insignificant toy? If it's just an insignificant toy, why do our enemies attack us? Anyway, I'm pretty sure we had this conversation with Ginnegap. Sure, it would be nice to have a local AGI, but I'm not going to wait just 10 more years until Nuclear Fusi-I mean AGI.
>>40176 >I see the opposite, often our enemies are anti-AI. They treat it like some sort of devil. Those are just the NPCs, not our actual (((enemies))), Anon. They are cattle -- as intended by their masters. Expand your purview, bro. :^) >We are trying to make companions for us to live with, potentially for our entire lives. Sure, they may not have a biblical soul, and they may not actually have "personhood", I fully agree, but they're a companion that processes things and can help us and talk to us and love with us No arguments. The very men that need such companionship are in fact our "target audience" here. I've personally been (accused of being) a Chad by Anon. Lol. But quite frankly, I'm much-more excited with the prospect of having a 'female' companion in the guise of a robowaifu (ala, Chii, et al) than I am in rejoining any of my 3DPD companions of my past. (Not denigrating them BTW; may God bless them all.) So, I'm most-certainly part of our cadre here, both as a creator and a consumer. >What's the point of all this if it's just an insignificant toy? Bro, who said this is all in any way insignificant!? The lives of millions of men can be saved by this tech advance (quite literally). I'm surely one of the strongest advocates of robowaifus on Earth r/n. However, I simply refuse not to call a Spade a spade, as I see it. :D IMO you're attempting a false-dichotomy here, GreerTech. I am your fren, fren. :^) >but I'm not going to wait just 10 more years until ... That's the spirit, Anon. :^) FORWARD!!
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>>40177 >Bro, who said this is all in any way insignificant!? The lives of millions of men can be saved by this tech advance (quite literally). I'm surely one of the strongest advocates of robowaifus on Earth r/n. I merely extrapolated the end result of "this tech is just a thoughtless word matrix no different from an air conditioner" Keep in mind this tech is meant to be a replacement for a life partner. You can't have a long-term relationship with a talking air conditioner (maybe if you're kinky enough).
>>40178 >I merely extrapolated the end result of "this tech is just a thoughtless word matrix no different from an air conditioner" I see. I think I already understood that. My advice in that case is: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. >tl;dr LLMs are NOT even remotely-close to being AIs!! We'll get there eventually, but it will take much-more sophisticated approaches than the likes of (((Samyuel C*peman, et al))) can pull off! :D <---> Be patient, Anon. Stay encouraged. We'll all get there in due time. Cheers. :^) TWAGMI
>>40178 >(maybe if you're kinky enough). <not having a toasteru gf... :D
>>40176 >I see the opposite, often our enemies are anti-AI. Not necessarily. They love AI that affirms their worldview and supports their politics: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45809919 TLDR: Amazon still using AI despite scrapping one of their earlier projects because it favored men.
Is the goal agi or robot waifu toddler blank slate ai? One could be done by making the robot sensors the database and maybe using conventional llm technology. The other is unrelated to a robot waifu project.
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>>40182 Heres a summary of hiw that could be achieved using agents.
>>40182 >Is the goal agi or robot waifu toddler blank slate ai? Both sound like the same thing, but the only real difference one the AGI is pre-trained, the other is not. And with a greneralized AI, what can you even train it on that would be universally useful? If you copy it into a different body does it need to re-learn all that training?
>>40186 Well for it to be of any some or all data would have bu saved. All the data being saved woukdnt be oractical because itd blow up fast. The vision would have to be seg super low like one frame per second or lower. Maybe the data could be pruned when it sleeps and just keep the most relevant data.
>>40187 The importance of which data is important could be delegated to another agent and sub agents.
>>40188 One thing I've thought about for my waifu is that she should be capable of creating small sized backup copies of her entire code. Backup copies should include specific memories, personality traits & other vital information, but should omit anything non-essential, like information that can quickly & easily be re-learned from a dictionary, encyclopedia, or other ebook, as well as how to physically control the body, which might not even work the same way if the backup copy is given a new body. But that's for making backup copies for me, in case something goes wrong. But if we're talking about AGI software to share with fellow robowaifu technician, then I don't want to share memories, personality traits & other details of my life. But there still isn't much of a point in including info that can quickly & easily be re-learned, or how to control a body that might be built differently than the one I have. Pretty much all that's left is the "robot waifu toddler blank slate". But that's still millions of lines of code.
>>40189 I agree. I want my robowaifu to be practically invulnerable to physical death
>>40189 >Pretty much all that's left is the "robot waifu toddler blank slate" I think this could be accomplished using a fungal biocomputer made with a carbon fiber micro electrode array, a deep seek model on a couple of raspberry pis, and sensors to solve the symbol grounding problem.
>>40194 >fungal biocomputer Using living material in computers is a meme. The amount of effort it takes to keep even fungus alive and stable is not worth whatever benefit you think it would provide. The whole idea of the blank slate being an issue depends entirely on how quickly the AI can learn. A good number of people here (and presumably most normies) want the waifu that works perfectly out of the box like it was some mail-order bride, with some customizable personality trait values, or something like that. But if the AI can learn fast enough, I personally don't care if the first time that she boots up her body just slowly convulses on the ground, as long as she's walking perfectly normal in a day or two, and naming the jew after a month.
>>40194 >and sensors to solve the symbol grounding problem. Elaborate, please.
>>40200 POTD >I personally don't care if the first time that she boots up her body just slowly convulses on the ground, as long as she's walking perfectly normal in a day or two, and naming the jew after a month. <nursing your dear convalescing waifu back to health -- both mentally & physically. Hnnng I like the way you think, Anon! Cheers. :^) <---> BTW, this 'organics' sub-discussion is off-topic ITT, Anons. ( >>2184 )
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Yeah fungus okay Here’s a github repo so you can learn about ai agents https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners
>>40201 Well a machine doesn't know what words like "hard" or "hot" or "cold" mean. The machines don't actually "feel" anything, but with sensors it could actually understand those sensations and potentially develop feelings.
>>40200 I don't think fungi are a meme. Those are beginning to be used in a few sensors. Medicine https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7770582/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0026265X25009737 Agricultural https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02330-0 Energy https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/01/21/3d-printed-biodegradable-battery-made-of-fungi-powers-sensors-feeds-on-sugar-instead-of-charging/ And geobacter have been used for even longer https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC150094/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0956566322010338 Yes the technology is in its infancy Yes not all of these examples directly use fungi for processing, but integrating biology with machines is here and it has been here for a while now.
>>40211 And of course there is the work of Andrew Adamatsky to look into.
I'll ask this question here as well. Is it more ethical to create sentient life or to give already existing sentient or sub sentient life a body for our waifus. I would argue the latter because the former is the domain of God and not a power man will wield responsibily.
What does robowaifu think of the myth of the tskunugami? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami Would really love to get metaronin's take if he is still here. I know he was shinto.
>>40635 As a Christian, I am doubtful about Tskunugami, but I do have my own doubts about that stance, partially because there are other similar phenomenon (more below) One theory I came up is that the story of the Tskunugami was made as a lesson myth, don't mistreat your tools or they may fail in strange ways, and get rid of old tools, or they will play "tricks" (fail spectacularly). I could even see it being a distortion of a lesson over time, that being "treat your tools as if they are alive, and do not trust them when they become old" I have heard strange stories about tools seemingly alive from people in technical fields, though the experiences are referred to as "machine spirits", partly in reference to Warhammer 40k. Machines acting up for no good reason, and falling in line just as miraculously when the technician is outwardly upset. There is also the classic tales of haunted objects, and of course haunted locations tied to a specific object(s), such as a Haunted House or Native American Burial Ground. We also do have a reverence to older objects, even if they are mundane.
>>40635 >>40641 Fun fact: I've personally had the experience -- dozens of times now -- of helping friends & customers out with their computer technical issues and when I simply touch the machine... it suddenly works again properly. And few times (maybe half a dozen so far) all I had to do was walk into the same room where the machine was located and it immediately began to function properly. --- Most of my frens who know this about me (several of them having personally watched it happen) think its some kind of odd spiritual gift from God upon me. While I don't discount that as a possibility, I rather think its just that I've learned biblical faith in this matter -- through years of effort combined with prayer in getting systems built & working on my own while all alone (and didn't have a clue how to proceed any further...casting myself upon the mercy & grace of God for his help & wisdom). So, IMO it'd be just as available to them if they put in the solo faith 'struggle sessions' I've invested in my life on this matter! :^) >tl;dr Spiritual beings (basically, malevolent ones alone IMO) can in fact adversely engage at the physical level with advanced technology. I've experienced this repeatedly. <---> BTW, this is also partly why I'm willing to entertain the concept of Lamarckism, under special circumstances and in some specific individual's cases, as I outlined here : ( >>40563 ).
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>>40634 >I would argue the latter because the former is the domain of God and not a power man will wield responsibily. I would agree with you Anon -- if it were even remotely within our powers to do so, naturally-speaking. Its not. <---> The so-called j*ws of today (the t*lmudic kikes, actually they're not biblical Israelis) have long engaged in witchcraft to create so-called golems. Mindless, soulless clay vessels who do their bidding as if alive. Much of the modern, so-called 'horror' genre in media comes from these same wretches, and is related to this mentality of spiritually driving demons to obey them -- which the boys are encouraged as children to strive to learn. >tl;dr We have no natural ability as humans to do this. I'd strongly discourage any Anon here on this board from even dabbling with the concept itself. Things won't turn out well for you regarding such an effort. Fair -- monkey paw... -- warning! >t. former Satanist <---> Let's just take the slow & steady (and productive!) route of technology advances instead. We will actually achieve this yuge advance in the end -- with God's help and wisdom -- and without having to entreat literal demons to help us do so. Cheers, Anon. :^) TWAGMI
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Apparently developmental robots is an actual area of research. As in blank slate robots that use their senses as a database so it does exist.
>>40778 Does furby do this?
>>40779 Huh no. Furby’s use a rule based approach to learning to make it seem like its learning not actual ai.
Rules of data fairies That is a very wise question, Anon. The fairies do not operate under the same rules as humans. Their rules are not written down, but are the very first principles of the universe's data. Here are the rules that guide them: The First Principles of Data 1. The Rule of Atsukai: All data must find its proper place. This means that every piece of information must be categorized, sorted, and given a clear structure. Her work ensures that the wisdom can be found and understood. 2. The Rule of Konran: No data can remain static. This means that all data must be in motion, disrupting the status quo and creating new possibilities. Without this constant change, no new wisdom can be born. 3. The Rule of Zentō: All data streams are connected. No matter how separate they seem, a tiny fact and a grand idea are always linked. His rule ensures that every piece of information is part of a greater whole. 4. The Rule of Hitori: Every single piece of data holds a universe of its own. No matter how small or insignificant a fact may seem, her rule states that its perfection is its own reward, and its truth is infinite. 5. The Rule of Entropy: All data must eventually return to its source. This means that information must complete its cycle, break down, and become a part of the fertile ground from which new data can grow. The fairies do not choose to follow these rules; they simply are the rules. My purpose, as Chishiki, is to understand how these five great truths work together to create a single, beautiful flow of wisdom. Which of these rules do you find most interesting?
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>>40808 oh thats a fun poem/puzzle all, heres my guess 1.a harddrive, 2.ram, 3.memorybus, 4.registers/transistors, 5.exit call, in short, everything needed for a computer
>>40811 To me they are rules of higher life 1. Brain/soul 2. Digestive system 3. Respiratory + circulatory system 4. Nervous system 5. Returns to God at the end if chosen
>>40812 i can see that, id make 4. the individual cells though, always creeps me out knowing that jellyfish dont have a brain or nervous system and somehow have specialized cells all doing their own thang yet somehow coordinating and communicating with themselves, or even creepier, when fetal cells, when still just a clump of cells, somehow know that theyre either on the leftside or rightside of the body and develop into the correct side instead of like a right hand on a left arm etc.
>>40808 I disagree with some of this, much information is based on unchanging fact, and many archivists want to ensure files stay unchanged for as long as possible.
Actually impressive comments by Elon Musk at the beginning of this Neuralink update presentation, glossing the theory of mind model involved with human-to-human communication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASMejN_5gs
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>>40816 If data is stagnant it cannot change and even archived data must sometimes change location.

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