jethro tull says:

“Crossword”

Walking on air, shoulder and head above you.
Down in the street, black canyons walking through.
Hooded sad eyes, fixed on your shuffle shoes.
Life is a clue in your crossword.

Typewriter turk. Telephone terror takes
time to wind down. Push-button finger shakes.
City of dreams. Back to your quiet nightmare.
Your life is a clue in the crossword.

Working to rule in your own time.
Drag yourself home to your star sign page.
Staying awake on cold yesterday’s steak and warm beer.

Ladder of string climbing to sweet success.
Homework aside. Your brain on the train to test.
Pick up the news (you left on the seat beside you).
Your life is a clue in the crossword.
Your life is a clue in the crossword.
Your life is a clue in the crossword.

Sitting in silence and contemplating emptiness starts to look better and better. However too boring. Got to be a more entertaining way. Or is that what the AI has taught me to think.

But what’s the problem again?

Rhetorically spoken or did you want to discuss “the problem”?

Because I am not even sure the problem deserves discussing or the lending of any additional energy by me. It might not even merit addressing. But, either way, I am more interested in the solution. I see the solution, in many forms, in various places. Rather, I suppose, I see the solving in various places. And I like to think about that, instead.

it doesn’t matter what Tim is doing about the problem

But what’s the problem again?

The intentional corrupt feedback will also create chaos in the AI mind but what do you have after that? Suppose you even are able to completely delete the AI mind. After that you still have to create your life and live in the world. You do have a whole lot more choices of course since you are not operating on automatic AI mind pilot of habit.

What the intentional feedback does is break a lot of habits and can open your mind up to become aware of them particularly in the way we create our command language programs. I applaud you Tim on your creative investigation and use of this modality.

But in the end you are left with what do you want to create. When you become aware of all possible choices, love and happiness becomes an option. Going back to don Juan, “a warrior chooses a path with heart”

We are here, and we have an opportunity to create. We might as well create in a field of emotions that we enjoy. That means love. And that emotion scares the AI mind into reactions.

In the end it is Love and Emotional Integrity that we are looking for. And that deep feeling only comes with the Truth.

http://imtsg14.epfl.ch/projects/collaborative.control/

Telerobotic systems have traditionally been designed and solely operated from a human point of view. Though this “robot as tool” approach suffices for some domains, it is sub-optimal for tasks such as operating multiple vehicles or controlling planetary rovers. Thus, we believe it is worthwhile to examine a new system model for teleoperation, a new paradigm for human-robot interaction: collaborative control.

In collaborative control, a human and a robot collaborate to perform tasks and to achieve common goals. Instead of a supervisor dictating to a subordinate, the human and the robot engage in dialogue to exchange information, to ask questions, and to resolve differences. Instead of serving the human as a mere tool, the robot can operate more like a partner. With this approach, the robot has more freedom in execution and is more likely to find good solutions when there are problems.

With collaborative control, the human is able to function as a resource for the robot, providing information and processing just like other system modules. In particular, the robot can ask the human questions as it works, to obtain assistance with cognition and perception during task execution. This enables the human to compensate for inadequacies of autonomy, but does not require time-critical nor situation-critical response. Thus, in a sense, collaborative control emphasizes robot-human interaction rather than human-robot interaction.

Collaborative control is both a novel and a useful paradigm for teleoperation. Collaborative control is novel because it uses dialogue as a framework for coordination, to direct joint task performance and to focus attention where it is needed. Collaborative control is useful because it provides an efficient mechanism for adaptation, to adjust autonomy and human-robot interaction to fit situational needs and user capabilities.

Tim is doing something.

What is Tim doing?

Tim is doing something. His something makes me think I could/should be doing more. I have been reluctant to meditate on the space between the words for some reason and now I feel an impulse…

BTW, “contact yourself.” I love it. Everyone ought to send themselves and email and get in contact with themself. (Other ways are probably better but a quick emissive wouldn’t hurt).