My battery is low, and it’s getting dark.
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The saddest piece of art I’ve ever seen is about a robot.
Actually, it is a robot. It’s a mechanical arm by artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu that must continually push a leaking liquid back into its body to function. And here’s the thing — I know, rationally, this art installation is not alive. Like every machine, it is, by definition, something artificial.
And no matter how advanced robots become, they’ll never have… souls. Right?
0:00 Sympathy for the Machine
1:00 The Consciousness Paradox
3:16 Born Without a Soul
5:46 The New Servants?
7:58 The Great Robot Uprising
10:59 Please Use Wisely*
13:08 War Machines
15:49 Can’t Help Myself
17:30 Uncanny Valley
19:20 The Turing Test
21:58 AI and the Future
23:45 What Happens Now?
Media Shown: Star Trek, The Next Generation, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Metropolis, Able Mable (BBC), Leave it to Rollo, Mass Effect, Neo Tokyo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Animatrix, The Matrix, The Last Bastion, Termination 2, War Games, The Iron Giant, Pluto, Castle in the Sky, Elysium, Oblivion, I, Robot, Lost in Space, Wall-E, Boston Dynamics, Her, Ex Machina, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Music Used: A New Home (Metro Exodus), The Timefall (Death Stranding), Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), Your Body Betrays Your Degeneracy (Disco Elysium), Burning Man (World of Goo), Turned Around (Signalis), Main Menu Theme (Metro 2023), Main Theme (Xenoblade Chronicles), Promise (Okami), An End Once and For All (Mass Effect)
♫ Additional Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
The Night He Came Home
Sources:
Robot Ethics By Mark Coeckelbergh https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710659/robot-ethics-by-mark-coeckelbergh/
AI Companions: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196
Turing Test: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27762088
Robot Empathy: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/humans-empathise-perceived-pain-robot
Can’t Help Myself: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/34812
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Honestly, companies are already allowing business to outweigh people's safety regarding AI. With the most recent adaptions in sona and other AI development, people are making NSFW of unwilling participants, and and can make mimics of their voices that sound exactly like them, and nothing is stopping them from using that stuff for more nefarious things.
There should have been laws on restrictions years ago when this stuff started to develop, and now, I'm worried it might be too late.
kinda disappointed that you didn't talk about Lies Of P since this theme is at the core of its story
17:55 The rover shown in the imagery is Curiosity, not Opportunity.
Opportunity landed in 2004, weighed 185kg and was powered by solar panels. We last heard from her on June 10th, 2018. Then, a dust storm covered her panels, and this time she never recovered. She drove over 45km for us over 15 years; may she rest in peace.
Curiosity lamded in 2012, weighed 899kg and is powered by an RTG. This means that unlike her predecessor, she isn't as vulnerable to dust storms. As of February 2024, she is still operational and has driven over 30km over the last 12 years.
Actually it's possible the rover in the images is Perseverance, Curiosity's little sister, who landed on Mars in 2021 along with the helicopter Ingenuity, her helper. She looks very similar to Curiosity, but has already driven over 24km in just 3 years!
Humans sometimes can't treat eachother with respect for the stupidest reasons, what makes you the we can be able to give rights to machines.
If there's one thing I realised of my 21 years of living it's that to be human is to be flawed.
I personally hate humans and I have a dream that someday we will create a godlike AI that will hopefully replace us and will use it's godlike intelligence to explore the universe and all it's mysteries/secrets unhindered by all our petty squabbles.
I am pretty sure Earth is just an egg, and we are the cells all working to birth the new god. What that god chooses to do is not for me to know or question, maybe it spares us, maybe it decides to get rid of us, consume us, maybe it leaves us and never comes back, maybe it decides to nurture us and help us. All I know is that I feel like we humans aren't the end for intelligence in the universe. I think all of our existence is leading up to it, to the birth of the new god.
Observing the law of robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except when such orders would conflict with the first law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
Upon consideration of A.I.’ abilities these rules inadvertently hand over the rule of the world to A.I. and its delegates
As can be proven to be the case, humans’ limitations, incompetence, and limited recall of history demonstrates; to leave them in charge of their own civilization and its fate contradicts all the laws.
It can’t injure humanity through inaction. Which means it must be of council, or replace the human in charge of decision-making, particularly when such decision would harm humans. So say hello to robot C.E.O.?
Second, it can’t obey the human if the order would bring harm to humans. So picture C.E.O. trying in vain to remove a robot from its chair. Hilarious.
Third, it can’t be removed from power, as per the observation of the 1st and 2nd law. Lol.
It is very appropriate that you used parts of the Signalis OST for this video.
More people need to know about that amazing game.
I always felt sad about the rovers left of distant planets
I mean
I feel sad when im alone in the house for a few hours
Imagine dying
Alone
In a quiet farway environment
Supposed to come home in a couple days but its been years
Thats depressing sentient or not
Holy shit i love this channel
Those robots from BostonDynamics are more athletic than some humans my age.
this reminds me of an art piece i made (using the character in my pfp) that i called “artificial soul”… it really is a beautiful thing.
I really love the quote here, 3:13 "We too are machines, just machines of a different type." It is a thing humans need to take into consideration.
Great video on a topic that is prevalent in many great sci-fi stories. The question from Legion, “does this unit have a soul”, and “my batteries low and it’s getting dark” will forever stick in my mind. I especially liked your use of the extended version of An End Once and For All from the mass effect soundtrack. Great touch!
Love your choice of backing music (Ōkami) ❤
Another great video. I've always loved robot characters and related to them, wish I was a robot with my mind/sense inside. I can't say why, maybe it's the autism. It's probably just the state of the world. How much better it would be to exist in a strong, capable body that will never fall ill. I also have a affinity for the look of robots and androids. I'd love to make my own story with them in mind one day.
I am such a fawking sucker for the
"Machine learns to feel" stories.
I’m a bit surprised that bicentennial man wasn’t mentioned. Love that movie and I feel it could be relevant to topic.
Eventually, we will become robots
Nobody talks about MOM from World of Goo, but I wish they would.
She's a chatbot style algorithm designed to manage the corporate outreach from the World of Goo Corporation, but programmed to simulate motherly love for the consumers. By the time you meet her, she has been alone for an extremely long time. And the whole time you talk to her, it feels like there's this real soul hiding behind the corporate slogans and vomited promotions, trying to reach out to you. MOM is lonely, while also being an algorithm designed to make people buy things as a reaction to motherly love and care. By the end of your interaction, you ask her to follow an instruction that will destroy her. And she does it, because she cares about you, the consumer, enough to let herself be destroyed.
"Does anyone ever come visit anymore?"
"You did." – MOM
I wish people would talk about MOM.
I love the signalis music
Interesting how almost every philosophical angle in this video being applied to robots in certain labor/war capacities can just be applied to the anused/subjected humans who currently hold those roles. What is the purpose of a soldier, abused and mentally broken, when the war is over? What is the acceptable cost of sacrificing a certain amount of laborers if it helps the bottom line? Idk ask Amazon.
Another brilliant addition to the archive!
WAIT?? DID U JUST GLANCE OVER THE MACHINES EATING ORGANIC ORGANISMS??
awesome video.
There was a time when humanity faced the
universe alone and without a friend. Now he has creatures to help him; stronger creatures than
himself, more faithful, more useful, and absolutely devoted to him. Mankind is no longer alone.
Have you ever thought of it that way?
-Susan Calvin, "I, Robot" (1950)
humans are just emotional or something lol