more like a mantisoid than humanoid

After my jokes they just stare back silently, pain in their eyes, and I’m left with that hollow feeling of loneliness. 😞

Me, quietly thriving in the rare awareness that I don’t know enough about geopolitics to tweet confidently about it.

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Me, an animation scholar, when everybody talks about the 'Monkey Punch'

Agreed. If there’s one part of human anatomy worth copying for robots, it’s the hand.

The correct term for a humanoid robot/android that resembles a woman is:
'gynoid.'

You’re welcome.

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Me trying to process a culture war I don’t get, embedded in a sport I don’t get, with music I don’t get.

Gott behüte uns, wenn der deutsche Landwirt Drohnen für sich entdeckt.

The famous middle management orc arguing with Saruman about factory output.

Besser, fünf sagen:
„Ich hasse es“
und fünf:
„Ich liebe es“,
als wenn zehn sagen:
„Ganz okay.“

Finally an actually useful application for humanoid robots. (Apart from dancing, of course)

Apple Vision Pro.
Released exactly 2 years ago.
The kind of product that feels inevitable on paper, then turns out to be quite silly, impractical and useless.
Still somewhat cute.

Now lets replace the legs with wheels an we're actually getting somewhere...

I really miss the times when plans for illegal invasions came with elaborate artworks.

Note: Life in Germany is worse than in China AND Portugal.

And here i was, thinking it couldn't get more cringe than AI slop produced by fascists.
Monarchists: "Hold my crown."

No - Fpv drones have indeed been quite disruptive in recent and currentarmed conflicts.
I mean more autonomous systems.
(Now i think about it - i kind of would like to have a fpv function on my roborock 🤔)

Also: Robots have not really been that great on the battlefield so far...
But they perform brilliantly underneath my couch.

🙄 Too many procurement staff officers watching black mirror.

"It is time to abandon that dream for good. Robots are for battle, and robots are for spying, and robots are for places where humans will not or cannot be."

I'd like to differ:
>Underneath my couch< is definitely a place I don't like to be.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Not that any of this wasn’t already described in detail by Roberto Saviano over 15 years ago in 'Gomorrah.'

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Funnily enough, with this Disney is just returning to its roots:
tech, tech, and more tech. Disney was always obsessed with new technology and yes: he would absolutely have used GenAI.

„The Island": Hito Steyerl in der Fondazione Prada Die Künstlerin Hito Steyerl zeigt in Mailand ihre neue Videoinstallation. Darin kämpft ein Superheld mit Unterstützung der Quantenphysik gegen Populismus und die Übermacht von KI. Ein Gespräch über Fa...

«Wissenschaftliche Fakten gelten als langweilig. Mit langweiligen Fakten konfrontiert zu werden, funktioniert also offenbar ganz hervorragend als Provokation! An Kunst als Transgression hat man sich dagegen gewöhnt, die wird als normal hingenommen.» www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Viele Dronen related Technologien wie VR oder AR stammen ursprünglich aus dem militärischen Bereich, wurden dann von Kunst und Kultur adaptiert und kehren jetzt über diesen Umweg teilweise wieder zurück. Irgendwie schon ironisch.

Das ist eines der Probleme des öffentlichen KI-Diskurses – der Begriff «Künstliche Intelligenz» suggeriert eine spezifische Technologie (für die meisten Leute: ChatGPT und Verwandtes), kann aber bei Bedarf alle möglichen avancierten Software-Anwendungen auf Machine-Learning-Basis umfassen
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All while being a serial adulterer.

These moralizing Disney posts are weird.
As if Disney had ever acted out of moral principles.
Disney has always been tech-obsessed and profit-driven, from multiplane cameras to robots.
Testing technology is in Disney’s DNA. It is the reason for the success.
Acting surprised now is just naive.

Disney was never "pure." It’s always been about profits. Golden-age movies were primarily commercial products.
Which is ok.