by DonHopkins | 2025-04-13 16:08:42+00:00
> All this lacks is the grand finale where the misunderstanding is revealed and they kiss & make out.

Don't despair. It could still happen! Somebody just has to make a Stanislaw Lem robot.

Hanson Robotics: Philip K Dick: Research Robot:

https://www.hansonrobotics.com/philip-k-dick/

There's a funny story about that robot (and a hilarious parody of a guy who worked on it in HBO's Silicon Valley).

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38311690

DonHopkins on Nov 17, 2023 | prev | edit | delete [–]

I can do anything I want with her - Silicon Valley S5:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29MPk85tMhc

>That guy definitely fucks that robot, right?

That "handsy greasy little weirdo" Silicon Valley character Ariel and his robot Fiona were obviously based on Ben Goertzel and Sophia, not Sam Altman, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/8edbk9/th...

>The character of Ariel in the current episode instantly reminded me of Ben Goertzel, whom i stumbled upon couple of years ago, but did not really paid close attention to his progress. One search later:

VIDEO Interview: SingularityNET's Dr Ben Goertzel, robot Sophia and open source AI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbltBLaFeI

You can tell he's a serious person, because he pioneered combining AI with blockchains:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Goertzel

>Career: Goertzel is the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, a project which was founded to distribute artificial intelligence data via blockchains.

>He once received a grant from Jeffrey Epstein.

>Sophia the Robot: Goertzel was the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics, the company that created the Sophia robot. As of 2018, Sophia's architecture includes scripting software, a chat system, and OpenCog, an AI system designed for general reasoning. Experts in the field have treated the project mostly as a PR stunt, stating that Hanson's claims that Sophia was "basically alive" are "grossly misleading" because the project does not involve AI technology, while Meta's chief AI scientist called the project "complete bullshit".

Well at least she's SEXY and EASY TO CONTROL! I can't wait for Epstein's flight manifests are released, to see if Sophie is on it! I hope she didn't leave her head in the overhead bin.

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So apparently the PKD robot's head was lost after David Hanson accidentally left it in an overhead bin of an airplane: "Hanson suspects the head was either stolen by an unscrupulous baggage handler or fell victim to an overzealous security guard who called in a bomb squad." The bomb squad may have even blown it up with another robot! I wonder if it got lucky and found its way to Poland to search for Lem's robot head.

Wired: Losing One’s Head:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161221090733/https://www.wired...

Now Philip K. Dick’s Missing Android Head Has His Own Radio Show:

https://gizmodo.com/now-philip-k-dicks-missing-android-head-...

Bring Me The Head Of Philip K Dick:

https://archive.org/details/bring-me-the-head-of-philip-k-di...

Bring Me The Head Of Philip K. Dick's Simulacrum Paperback – April 21, 2021:

https://www.amazon.com/Bring-Head-Philip-Dicks-Simulacrum/dp...

The lost robotic head of Philip K. Dick has been rebuilt:

https://gizmodo.com/the-lost-robotic-head-of-philip-k-dick-h...