Robot Base create AI for the individual but at what cost does all this technology come with? #AI #robotbase #kickstarter

The film 'Her' last year managed to put across the idea of Artificial Intelligence becoming an everyday part of our lives in a very real way, showing the good, the bad and the weird. We have so many distractions already, with technology infiltrating all sections of our life, why would we want to give up almost all of our choices and memory to a computer that does the thinking for us? I personally like having to remember to check that I've locked my front door, rather than hoping an AI will do it for me. I like having the freedom to lunch out a day because I feel like it with out being reminded what I should be doing constantly...... even though I have friends who do this for me..... and I like the feeling of control you have over your life when you are making your own choices about what to wear, when to take a photo, who to meet for lunch, when to cook dinner, who to be friends with....... Do we really value our freedom so little that we want to give it all up to an AI, albeit an AI that we can train....just like a dragon?

Robot Base have done what I seem to be the most worried about. They have created an AI that can recognise faces, emotions, inanimate objects like toasters and TV's. Most scary of all it talks. This is something that I guess is just hard wired into me.... Computers should not talk back!! If I went to get my hammer out of my toolbox and it started talking to me...

"Hi Tommy, good to see you again, its been cold and dark in there... Are we going to hit something today? I like hitting things. Can I recommend a double handed grip? Did you pick up your safety goggles? I refuse to work if you don't wear goggles......"

AAAHHRRGGRRHHHHH!! Who is really going to enjoy being talked at by something that is essentially a tool? Things that are meant to help us do things that we couldn't easily do with out using them are not also supposed to give us advice are they? Talking and thinking are both things I do all the time. I have no problem with them...... well sometimes after a long night in the pub... but they are things that come naturally to me. I like these abilities and I'm a bit worried that giving over all this power, and relying so much on an AI will make us all stupider, lazier, fatter and less able.

Wall-E fat people of the future

Check out the website (www.robotbase.com)and the kickstarter for Robot Base and see what you think about this idea and get back to me with your opinions. This is surly the start of something new and amazing but is it good or bad???

The video above is the promo for this new bit of tech that is taking previously developed bit of AI that can do very individual things and linking them all together into one big old brainbox.