Welcome

Welcome to roBman.fyi. This is a central hub for all my posts on what I’ve been thinking about and my ongoing research.

In 2010 (around 15 years ago as I write this) I started exploring some ideas that at the time seemed pretty fringe. This is the playground where I can now explore them in more detail.

Background

It’s a long read and I don’t expect you to look through it in detail, but if you want to skim through, then here’s a link to a document I posted way back then. The Pervasive Experience Project - July 2010

The starting point for this whole thing was a single diagram drawn by the late Marc Weiser. Unfortunately, his original website is now badly broken, even in the internet archive, and all I have left is this poor quality copy from my 2010 document.

Sadly it seems even the web is now getting it’s own form of alzheimers.

The key question

I got distracted for a long time with work and life….but the same question I was asking in this project kept coming back to me.

As our lives become increasingly digital,
can we define a threshold where 
we are no longer 'human'?

It might sound a little abstract and there’s a world of detail beneath that question, but I have a really tangible plan to work towards defining this formally and mathematically.

Plus I think this has important ethical implications for AI Safety and development in general, plus for Embodied Cognition & Robotics.

Life happens (if you’re lucky!)

Recently, I’ve had a unique opportunity to re-visit these ideas.

Now I’m slowly working my way back, and diving into the details. As I create media or research reports I’ll post them on this blog and share summaries via social media in the hope of generating some discussion.

So lets get started

Here’s a link to my first post that takes a look at Recent advances in Emotional Intelligence for AI.

If you like thinking about how AI is shaping the future of our thinking, how can we really define Consciousness, how can we define the edges of Distributed Cognition, exploring how Cognitive Prosthetics will really work, and more…then you’re in the right place.

I hope you find these topics as interesting as I do and I look forward to discussing them with you…