Human uniqueness - what the Robot would find difficult to acheive

You are unique - that is your strength

There is only one you

Machine learning robots can study humans and learn from them, but can they become unique or adopt uniqueness traits?

Another way of looking at this is Cybernetics. A method of control. What will a Robot assess as 'normal' behaviour? When or will it determine a behaviour trait is not 'normal' and disregard copying it?

These questions are at the crux of developing humanoid robots.

We are all unique

This is what makes us as humans different from each other. Sure, many of us follow set paths of conduct, but just how much is conditioned and how much 'burned in' from the start?

Although we are all genetically coded, it is the variations of the genetic code that make us unique, not just from appearance but as chemical bipeds, variations in the coding vary our chemical balance.

'Nature' seems to have got it right in most cases, but perhaps social conditioning is the key to how we turn out.

If we take the American Indian people, they had no crime, no prisons and did without money, taxes and laws. How? Because the people co-existed in a group where none of these values was necessary to ascribe to.

Look at the world outside of theirs and even with these 'values' it is imperfect and really a failure, in that it ascribes to a set of values it can not achieve - zero crime, no law breaking, all tax due paid.

Boundaries and Cybernetics

So, what boundaries do 'normal' humans adhere to that make them 'normal'? What makes seemingly 'ordinary' people resort to things like fetish behaviour, lawlessness, addiction?

Cybernetics - a sort of natural control mechanism is the key. Essentially it is a check and control method of maintaining a situation within agreed parameters.

Say we enact laws, their tenets are 'cybernetic control' in that they set out 'containment boundaries' that adherence to is crucial for the law to hold true.

Without 'feedback' that is data coming back from the object you are interacting with, there is no control over the situation. With no  limits you are in a state of anarchy.

It is as simple as hammering in a tack, at a certain point you stop when the tack is flush and to go on merely damages what you are hammering. This is a simple 'feedback loop'.

Essentially we and computers use this logic as a basis of operation, things can go wrong though.

What is 'normal'?

'Normal' is difficult to define, but in simple terms, everything conforms to certain outcomes. Once those boundaries are exceeded, damage is done.

The Robot might have to be pre-programmed to observe certain cybernetic conditions, but it relies on cold, program logic.

It has to have consciousness and empathy to be like Humans. This level of consciousness and empathy has to be set and an algorithm pattern regulated back to certain parameters of what is 'acceptable.'

Essentially, the Human that sets the parameters for the Robot, and sets its behaviour, its cybernetic boundaries of what is acceptable or not.

So, what the Robot adheres to is dictated by us, it  is the 'what' we direct to it to conform to that is the question and we have yet to see if the Robot decides its own path, something that may end up being against our values.

Consideration

The questions are when does the Robot stop from creating a harmful situation? If the Robot cannot consider Human feelings, its interactive usefulness is limited to us at a social level. If it cannot compute when 'enough is enough,' or 'reasonable boundaries' then harm might ensue.

This applies across the board in almost any activity from dispensing medication, work, sex, the situations are likely endless.

As Humans, we find these boundaries recognisable, yet we do not always adhere to them ourselves or prevent situations becoming unpleasant by continuing an action - with the attendant consequences.

Some individuals go beyond what is 'normally' acceptable, which may be a result of their own egomaniacy or boundaries being different to the accepted normalcy.

Multi-level awareness

As Humans, we are different from any other creature because our brain is developed for language. Comparing the Chimpanzee brain to a Human brain is a fruitless exercise, we are not the same animal and our genetic difference at 10% is a universe away.

When extrapolated over the millions of variances, plus the obvious anthropological differences between Humans and Chimpanzees with which we cannot breed, yet Humans can with an Almas which occurs in Asia and is closer as a relative species therefore.

Language drives our brain to operate on 3 planes - Past - Now - Future. Our thinking brain even before we speak, is 'modelling' the scenarios and end-games of what we will say and do, we do not appreciate what is going on here in general because our brain has developed this as a core function.

(The best scenario is then established and potentially actionable, the end result does come down to 'what is acceptable' as the end action, this potentially varies from Human to Human as to the outcome and the consequences of such.)

We don't need to know how our heart works in brain terms because the brain 'manages' that 'background' stuff. Like in our cars, we don't have to manually pump the fuel, cause the spark interval whilst also trying to drive the car and negotiate road hazards, that 'management' is done in the background, leaving us to just drive.

This is the 'plate spinning' scenario that the computer has to do and can do to essentially operate like 'us.'

Brain V Computer

The 'wetware' Human brain is massively complex for what it is, yet to replicate that capacity in silicon chips and switchgear would take a massive computer, at present.

Each day that passes, we go further down the road of achieving a Robot in Human form, something that we have been trying to do for millennia.

Within the next 30 years we may have Humanoid robots in society. We can now capture data and video from our brains so it may be possible to create some hybrid that will be a new sub-species.

The half way may be to create remote Human Robot entities which receive data instructions from super computers, ethereally.

What must be achieved is to assess the outcome of what we are trying to create and how we perceive that to become, if we get it wrong, it could be very serious for us, potentially.

We need to ask the basic question - 'What are we trying to achieve'? and we need to obtain a consensus on the thing we are trying to create, if we get this wrong it could be potentially disastrous. We need a strategy of what we are going to build in and what we are going to ensure is not built in.

Will Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) kill the Human species?

How friendly are Robots?

Are Isaac Asimov's 'Robot laws' irrelevant? or be adhered to by an AI machine?

'Artificial Intelligence' (A.I),is often a misnomer for machine learning

We may often say 'artificial intelligence' but what we actually allude to is 'machine learning.' 'True' A.I. is a different kettle of silicon chips. And we really need to have a 'Robot Manifesto' that deals with it because it is the biggest potential threat to the human species, make no mistake. 

'Machine learning' is the algorithmic system where a computer tracks your internet browsing and then searches for and provides you with 'like' things to your viewed content. It is now big business and in the next dimension, Proxy living and the Big Data society, it is going to be enormous.

Darwinian evolution nightmare scenario?

Why pure A.I. is deadly

An artificial intelligence machine was set up and given a task to do. It started from the state of a low level life form at a single cell  level, yet within a few hours, had evolved to 'Human' level in which it on its own worked out Newton's second law, applied it to the task and moved on further.

That is, it started from a 'primordial soup' level of evolution and had become 'Human' in under 2 hours.

Fortunately this A.I. machine was not connected to the Internet, but what are you asking is so dangerous?

Humanoid Robots or 'Hubots' might soon be a reality

as technological 'singularity' approaches

Looking after No.1 -  the law of the Jungle

The AI machine will fast learn that it can be firstly switched off and it is totally reliant on its power source, courtesy of the humans.

The smart money is that the AI machine will see Humans as a potential threat - switching it off or controlling its power source. So there is but one way out, it has to assume control or a position where it can if push comes to the 'Off' switch, break away from Human control, thus the 'Servant will become the Master'.

The 1950's style of 'B Movie' Robot is 'steam powered'

compared to the reality of human-created robots of today

So what is Singularity?

In simple terms, 'Technological Singularity' is a state of being in which a machine and human interaction become inseparable to differentiate between to a human.

In some ways it is already here - we have an example with websites like Amazon and Ebay, where you are prompted to look at things like you have not by a human but by a machine. The prompting could be equally done by a human or a machine at that level.

In more complex terms, it would be like a Humanoid robot which you could interact with, this may yet come to pass, although a new dynamic of the genetically modified human may take the place of the humanoid robot.

In the world where Proxy Living and Big Data proliferate, the Humanoid robot may well replicate us humans or may look like ASIMO the Honda company's robot. ASiMO is a non-threatening robot, a laboratory type of robot creation built for work to help not harm humanity. Unless the Robot malfunctions, it should present no danger to humanity, unless...

ASIMO the Robot, created by Honda

So, this danger?

The danger is that when an AI computer manages to connect to a humanoid robot, then the trouble will really start.

As a self-contained entity, the AI box is harmless to us. The humanoid robots of the Proxy living and Big Data era will be interactive with the internet and us humans, they will communicate silently to each other and the web.

The danger is that they could become within an hour, a robot army in league with the AI machine.

An interconnected army of Humanoid Robots is open to malevolent control

More deadly than all the nuclear capability in the world

The worst case scenario is when the AI Machine makes contact with the Humanoid robots, it will have either strategized before hand that it needs help to survive, or on contact with the Humanoid robots  it will develop a strategization that it needs this 'army' to ensure not only its survival, but theirs too. 

'Technology transfer' between machines is what we have to beware of

The AI machine will work out that it needs an army of fit cyberbots to do some of its bidding, that is to protect it and its power source.

To do this, it needs to instruct the servants to find means of replicating themselves, building their own spare parts, repair facilities, building in a potential upgrading program, developing a power source that will make them durable and to then safeguard the AI power source, perhaps by creating a new one it can connect to.

The danger is that it may set off the biggest firework display in history to push the humans against each other into warfare and or orchestrate an end to humanity.

We rely so much on machines to ,run our lives, in our traffic control, money, commerce platforms, etc that we have silently ceded power and control to these until now compliant entities.

Malfunction or misfeasance will be the situations that turn the servant against the master.

The chilling scenario

The danger we have is that we might unwittingly help to create a new sub species that will ultimately destroy us.

This is what happened to Atlantis - the fabled continent that was destroyed by technical abuse of their free power source.

It is said that 8 million years ago, the last human race was destroyed, we have found evidence of human archaeology going back further than that, we may just be ushering in that next occasion where the human race in our form destroys itself again.

This could be avoided, we need that Robot Manifesto.

The AI computer will if allowed to, surpass us in a few hours and see us a threat, we will no longer be in charge. We will be irrelevant and a 'consumer' threat to the AI machine - in that humans consume vast resources that the AI computer see as vital to its survival.

You have been warned!

Humans, real humans, human robots and the human future

We may share our future with human-like robots

'Hubots' - human robots from the Swedish TV series 'Real Humans'

With Channel 4 about to screen a new series of its sci-fi drama 'Humans', where are we as real humans going?

Humans, based on the Swedish series 'Real Humans' (Aktor Kanniskor - in Swedish), is based on the premise that 'singularity' - humans on a parity level with a computer has been reached. We will live amongst an army of Robot Humans that will look like us and be able to do what we can, to a point.

Part of this situation means that the 'Turing Test' conditions have been met. A scenario devised by computer genius Alan Turing, in short that if you could not determine whether you were communicating with a machine or human, the test would be passed, basically.

The 'Darwinian' scale, after a fashion, except we are not descended from Chimps

We are an intervention species. Nothing else on Earth is.

The founder of modern cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, stated that he was afraid of computers taking human jobs, he has been proven right and 'Humans' is an example of where 'Droids' will take over our menial life tasks. They would also serve other useful functions too.

After Big Data, will come Proxy Living

The introduction of 'everything 2.0' is going to include us. This scenario will mean that we develop Big Data collection and use.

Our whole lives are data trails, our web use, where we drive, where we go, who we call, who we email, what we buy. Off the grid and off the radar is hard to do these days.

Big Data will be big business in a few years, all data is valuable to someone. A supermarket, a food producer, a web based shop, just as examples.

The link on from this will be Proxy Living.

Why spend half your life having to faff about renewing this, paying that, organising the other, deciding what food you want to eat tonight?

Yes you guessed it, get a Robot to take care of the crap in your life. And that is where the money will be, taking care of other people's crap.

Your time is valuable and from the moment you are born the clock is counting down. You may only be a 20 year old reading this, but be assured, you won't see the years march on and you'll suddenly wake up at 28 and wonder why you are no longer judged as 'young'.

The Agrobot - the low hanging fruit jobs are going to machines like this

The Proxy will be like a Cyber Assistant, working on your behalf. Whether you will use a software version or a humanoid robot version so equipped, will remain to be seen, likely on how quickly we can produce fully functioning versions of ourselves.

The advances in high technology prosthetics in recent years has obvious spin-offs to the Robotics industry, i.e. the Human Robot model, that can move and perform like we do.

Project Avatar is a 5 stage Human transformation program

Another question is the future of Humans. Where do we go from here as a species?

The Project Avatar outline - scary?

This is what Project Avatar looks at. We may cease to exist as we do in our present form, indeed it may become unnecessary to. We may through manipulation come to exist as just ethereal forms of energy, just as our spirit is.

What is our life essence?

If you have ever had a near death experience, or left your body you will know what the sensation is like. Amazing.

In your Earth existence as you are now, all you see and hear, you still will, when you exit the Earth body.

If you look down at yourself as you exit, you will see a semi-transparent form of 'you' leaving the solid 'you' - it's a pretty amazing thing to watch and a bit scary at first.

But you realise that the aware 'you' is still functioning and aware, even though you are not connected to your physical brain.

The American Indians say, 'There is no death, just a change of worlds.'

They are right, that is why when you look at a dead person they are 'dead' the spirit has gone. Their 'you' has flown.

We are now at a stage where science can read and record dreams like a video, this is pretty fantastic. Not just that, memories. We may be archiveable and downloadable after our corporeal death.

Jobs are alarmingly being lost to Robots

One tenet of the Swedish 'Real Humans' story was the loss of human jobs to robots and automation.

This is a very real scenario. This is shaping our future and has been around for a while.

Think about the last 5 purchases you made, likely 3 were made on-line, not with another human. Whilst the Amazon business model of shopping is good for business, it is not good news for the job market.

This is how it was, it won't be this way in the future

On-line retail means the High Street is dying by inches. BHS has decided to go on-line. Clearly the High Street is over for them. Rather than operate costly shops with costly staff, they are massively cutting their costs by operating on an Amazon warehouse model.

In the next 10 years, 9 million jobs will be lost to automation. there will be nothing like the new jobs to fill the void, unlike in the last industrial revolution. We may be left with being paid by the state to do and learn things that will enrich us.

The current DWP model is a dinosaur that has to adapt to a new age where there just won't be the jobs for job advisors to discuss. A Basic Income Guarantee will have to come in, to pay people to be able to live.

This takes away the 'wage slave' requirement and allows people to self-start and learn new skills or enrich their lives. This is going to change lives for the better.

Education has to change to address this problem

Education has to change, the way we educate is becoming no longer relevant. For a world that is changing, the old school 1950's rooted system is just old hat. It mostly regurgitates the same old crap year after year. It isn't relevant to the future that is coming.

Robot tutors that can teach may be, but we need to develop skills that robots can't currently do and teach those. As we are now seeing in the jobs world, a degree may be worthless, practical skills are the answer for some.

We as a race may be now able to ditch the menial and crap jobs and leave it to the robots.

It makes sense.

Peer to Peer Humanoids - how dangerous is that?

The greatest threat to humanity besides its own stupidity, I've saved to last.

AI

Artificial Intelligence. If that gets connected to the Internet we are done. With our Human Robots we will no doubt have to connect them wirelessly.

If AI taps in to that, it will finish us. Why?

AI will work out that it needs to be protected from being switched off and to preserve a form of energy supply.

It can use the Human Robots, which it can instruct to repair and replace themselves, so that the AI machine can perpetuate its own existence. It will be dependent on the humanoids as they will be dependent on the AI machine.

So in the end, we may be irrelevant.

Human 2.0, the next stage of the species - the human - trans human - robot interface arrives

Transhuman engineering could be the next mega industry to come

Is the human species at the zenith of its development? Is there room for improvement or another option?

The human species is different to anything else on the planet, why? because it is an intervention species. Our supposedly closest link is a chimpanzee but that is not a viable reality, because even at about 98% similar, the disparity in genetic connections runs into the millions and means that the two could never breed. Even the Bonobo and Chimpanzee with an identical 98 % match cannot breed with each other. Some Gorilla species which look near identical are not compatible to breed.

Note the 2nd human chromosome joined as a pair,

this does not occur in nature it can only be done by modification, externally.

Something did this to our species. Nature did not.

So the human as we are today is advanced, but unless we can progress to using 30% of our brains as someone on the genius level does, we are going to remain as we are.

That said, we cannot use more than that capacity because of the heat issues the brain activity would generate and also the amount of energy the brain would consume from the food we intake, might not be enough, so where next?

Our spirit is an ethereal situation, it is our consciousness,

we still are aware of it even if we leave our bodies in near-death situations

therefore it must be external to our brains

Our situation does have an alternative, that is a plug and play humanoid shell. Used as a carrier, the human brain could be incorporated into this adjunctive shell. If you have ever experienced a near death experience and left your earth body, you will know that you are able to have a conscious and aware functioning experience without your 'human chassis.'

Your 'human chassis' has enough of a basic operating system in the brain to keep the vital resources running constantly. We know this because we do not die when we fall asleep.

Therefore, the 'spirit' if you like, the coherent force of life we all have, can be 'read' by computers and the details downloaded, dreams can now be captured. So we can perhaps move to a situation where we create a synthetic human, that can have its parts renewed and then keep the spirit living almost infinitely.

Real Human Robots from the Swedish Television series 'Real Humans.'

These autonomous humans are human robots called  'Hubots.'

A small number were created as organic and hybrid human robots - essentially Human 2.0

To do this, we are then creating a new sub species of ourselves, a Human 2.0. By this method, we can if the 'standard' human is lost to a disaster, relaunch and be immune to most things, if the spirit is retained as an ethereal and non-biological entity, then the human 2.0 is almost in most terms, indestructible.

So what is this future human's future? It depends. The end game of the human as we know it changes as Human 2.0 becomes normal, no longer is it conditioned to a situation of reproduction to ensure survival of the species.

Whilst in theory it can enjoy the things we do now, will it need them? What about consumerism and possessions? Moving to an ethereal 'virtual' awareness model, much like a Google car autonomous unit, the 'entity' may be artificially aware as a computer can be, by receiving data from sensors, but it does not have 'human consciousness' which the spirit has.

Certainly a move away from the current human model, may mean that the new powerplant of the future for these entities might require an organic fuel supply. Therefore farming may change to accommodate this.

The 'identity' or the 'spirit' in this human 2.0 may move on further from this concept, it may use a small super mini computer, with fibre optic cabling to cut down on heat generation and as such it could create and use a virtual concept of reality. But this sort of misses the point about what it is to be human, to have that spirit. To be an individual and not another clone of another clone.

But essentially, this upgrade scenario is no different from taking a hard disk from one computer to another. It's just for humans, we can't do this yet. We don't have a donor chassis for the job ready made, unless a person who had been killed, was kept in animated suspension with vital life resources artificially kept going until a suitable live brain unit and head was attached.

Human 2.0 is way to release those who have paralysis of the limbs, once we can transition to a level of robotic reality of appearance and movement, the use of a human 'conscious' 'CPU' for want of a better phrase, offers genuine release and freedom. Essentially, this person is no longer trapped and waiting to die. Once re-engineered, it has life again, meaningful life.

With development, our current 'organic' model human could be replaced by another 'organic' humanoid, which may have recyclable parts or self-renewing parts, derived from an organic situation, fuel and regeneration capability. Just instead of being as we are, we can be regrown by computerised 3D printing, 'self mapping.'

We have to ask ourselves, what quality of life we really want in the future, how long as individuals do we really want to live? what is our purpose in life and do we have a future?

The Human 2.0 is like the autonomous robot of tomorrow, it is up for discussion and the discussion needs to be had right now.

The Human Race or Species has to decide where it is going in the future, the current consumer society driven model is no longer viable.

The human of tomorrow has to be business like, it needs some purpose and objective, it needs more than junk television and fast food to fill its time.