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OUR RELATIONS WITH COMPUTERS
H.Jaap van den HerikTilburg centre for Creative Computing (TiCC)
Tilburg UniversitySchool of Humanities
Diner Speech
ISCRAM Tilburg, August 25, 2009Summerschool 2009
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Words of Thanks
With much pleasure I would like to thank the
organisation ISCRAM for the invitation
In particular Dr. Bartel Van de Walle
Professor Piet Ribbers
Janneke Liebregts
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Words of Inspiration
GO FOR A Ph.D. THESIS
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The Main Topic
The Acceptance of Scientific Findings
by our Society
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Topics to be discussed
• Playing Chess• Judging Court Cases• Authentication of Paintings• Acting as an Auditor (only mentioned)• Deciding on Euthanasia (only mentioned)• Intimate Relationships
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The Research of the Future
• City Labs
(Paul Burghardt)
• Cloud Computing
(Bart Bogaert, IBM Belgium)
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Technology and Future
MechanizationMechanization19501950
ComputerizationComputerization19701970
Information handlingInformation handling
20002000IntelligentIntelligentE-commerceE-commerce
E-commerceE-commerce
20052005 Agent TechnologyAgent Technology
20122012 Grid Technology Grid Technology
19901990IntelligentIntelligentProgramsPrograms
Communication (ICT)Communication (ICT)
20152015 Cloud ComputingCloud Computing
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Turing’s (1950) prediction
“The orginal question, “Can machines think?” I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion. Nevertheless I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”
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Shannon’s (1950) prediction
“The thesis we will develop is that modern general purpose computers can be used to play a tolerably good game of chess by the use of a suitable computing routine or ‘program’.”
Playing Chess
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World Champion Programs
– KAISSA 1974 Stockholm– CHESS 1977 Toronto– BELLE 1980 Linz– CRAY BLITZ 1983 New York– CRAY BLITZ 1986 Keulen– DEEP THOUGHT 1989 Edmonton– REBEL 1992 Madrid– FRITZ 1995 Hong Kong– SHREDDER 1999 Paderborn– JUNIOR 2002 Maastricht– SHREDDER 2003 Graz– JUNIOR 2004 Ramat-Gan– ZAPPA 2005 Reykjavik– JUNIOR 2006 Turin– RYBKA 2007 Amsterdam– RYBKA 2008 Beijing– RYBKA 2009 Pamplona
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Fritz Reul
• Ph.D. thesis defense June 17, 2009
• New Architectures in Computer Chess
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Classification
Four examples:• Recidence predictions serial killer (RIGEL, PREDATOR)• Screening Airline Passengers
(CAPPS)• Fraud with Credit Cards
(BARCLAY SYSTEM)• Risc on Recidivism
(Blokland and Nieuwbeerta, UL)
Judging Court Cases
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Stijn Vanderlooy
• Ph.D. thesis defense July 1, 2009
• Ranking and Reliable Classification
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A Painting Problem
Cezanne Gauguin van Gogh
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Training Data
Van Gogh
(5000 textures)Schuffenecker
(5000 textures)
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Four Characteristics1. Colour
2. Repetition of patterns
3. Composition
4. Brushstroke
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Neural Networks
Van Gogh
Schuffenecker
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GeneralisedGeneralised Results
• 96% of the non-visible characteristics is classified correctly
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Results• Trained neural networks applied to the
characteristics of the Yasuda Sunflowers
• 89% of the characteristics are classified as owing to Van Gogh
• But… identification of painter or painting method? (“Russian tank effect.”)
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Data set 6 impressionists, 10 paintings each
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Eleven Approaches
1. Hue 7. RGB
2. Orientation 8. Mean
3. Standard Dev. 9. Fast Fourier Transform 240
4. HSI 10. Fractal Dim
5. Kurtosis 11. Comb 8, 9, and 10
6. Skewness
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State of the art: automatic recognition of impressionist painters
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Laurens van der Maaten and Igor Berezhnyy
• Ph.D. defense June 23, 2009
• Feature Extraction from Visual Data
• Ph.D. defense December 7, 2009
• Digital Analysis of Paintings
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Scientific Background for Intimate Relationships
• Artificial Intelligence• Computer Science• Gender Studies• Psychology• Robotics• Sexology• Sociology
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David Levy
• Ph.D. defense October 11, 2007
• Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners
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The investigation
• Past developments in our relationships with computers
• Present developments in our relationships with computers
• How these relationships are continuing to progress
• The culmination of this progress – robots becoming our artificial partners
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The problem statement
• PS1: To what extent will the emotions that humans feel for other humans, for pet animals, for virtual pets, and even for less animal-like artefacts – namely computers – , be extended to embrace the robots of the future?
• PS2: To what extent will the normal bounds of human sexuality be extended with respect to the robots of the future?
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Four research questions to PS1
• RQ1: Is it possible to trace what (precisely) causes people to develop strong emotional feelings of attraction (leading to attachment or love)?
• RQ2: What characterizes the affective relationship between humans and pets?
• RQ3: What is the attractive power of a virtual pet?• RQ4: What is the attraction of a humanoid robot
for a human being?
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Four research questions to PS2
• RQ5: Why do people enjoy sex?• RQ6: Why do people pay for sex?• RQ7: What technologies are available to be used
as sex technologies?• RQ8: What mental obstacles exist to prevent the
final step towards the second objective?
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Trend – The uses of robots
• From the highly impersonal to highly personal• First used in industry (e.g., car factories)• Next came service robots (e.g., cleaning,
demolition, mail-carts, refuelling cars)• Then came personal robots for use in the home
(robot pets, carer robots)
The trend is for increasing human-robot interaction
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Repliee Q1 – very humanlike
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Trend – Human emotional attachments
• Originally only for other humans• Then for pet animals• Then for virtual pets• In the future for robots
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Trend - Marriage
• Women’s property used to be owned by their husbands• Ownership sometimes extended even to the women
themselves• Interracial marriage used to be illegal, e.g., in the USA and
South Africa• Same-sex marriage has recently become legal in some
parts of the USA and in some other countries• Marriage used to be for life – now the divorce rate in many
countries is around or approaching fifty percent• Marriage used to be regarded almost universally as being
for procreation – now many couples opt not to have children
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Trend – Marriage (what next?)
• Social change is happening much faster nowadays than 200, 100 or even 50 years ago
• Changes in the meaning and purpose of marriage are also happening much faster than ever before
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Trend - Vibrators
• Early models steam and clockwork driven• First electric model invented in the 1880s• Became popular at the start of the 20th century• Popularity soared towards the end of the century
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Trend – Sex machinesWhat do people want?
• Survey in 2003 on www.BetterHumans.com
1st Humanoid love slaves (41 per cent of votes)
2nd Mind-to-mind interfaces (24 per cent)
3rd Virtual reality sex (17 per cent)
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Conclusions to RQ1, RQ2, RQ3, RQ4
• RQ1: Ten main factors are the most important for causing humans to fall in love
• RQ2:The emotional rewards of human-pet relationships, combined with anthropomorphism, create strong love for pets
• RQ3: Humans attach emotional feelings (love) to virtual pets
• RQ4: Almost all of the same ten factors (from RQ1) will play a part in human-robot companion relationships
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Conclusions to RQ5, RQ6, RQ7, RQ8
• RQ5: People enjoy sex mainly for pure pleasure and to express emotional closeness
• RQ6: People pay for sex mainly in order to obtain variety and sex without complications and constraints
• RQ7: Technological developments of sexual artefacts have outstripped the previous limits of the human imagination of sexual possibilities
• RQ8: Mental obstacles to the general acceptance of sex with robots will be overcome with time
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Answering the problem statement
• Problem statement PS1 has been answered by the conclusions to research questions RQ1, RQ2, RQ3 and RQ4.
• The overall conclusion for PS1 is that the emotions that humans feel for other humans, for pet animals, for virtual pets, and even for less animal-like artefacts – namely computers -, will be fully extended to embrace the robots of the future
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Answering the problem statement
• Problem statement PS2 has been answered by the conclusions to research questions RQ5, RQ6, RQ7 and RQ8.
• The overall conclusion for PS2 is that the normal bounds of human sexuality will be fully extended to embrace the robots of the future
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The Longer Run (2200 - 2500)
Hugo de Garis: Superhuman Intelligence
Two opinions: Cosmist
Terrens
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Hugo de Garis (Utah, USA)
Ray Kurzweil (M.I.T., USA)
Hans Moravec (C.M.U., USA)
Kevin Warwick (Reading, UK)
Jaap van den Herik (Tilburg, The Netherlands)
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