Fernand
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@ucmndd said:
People that anthropomorphize their cars creep me the fugg out.
I'm sorry to add to your discomfort. I can't speak for others, but in my my case my wife offers many features that Nicki The Tesla lacks.
Yet I think it fair to explain a couple of things. First, I find the wokey Gender twisting of language in relation to humans to be symptomatic of profound cultural and neurological damage. The car, however, has both male and female attributes in my eyes, so I find it very amusing. There's also a reference to Professor Tesla, and a Toni Basil song.
Personification of objects and animals has some operational value. Hey, Google, Hello Amazon, Whoa Siri. With regard to semi-intelligent entities there's something in how I've "worked" with them over the past decades. For a coder-designer, personification has some use. I remember what Pokey The Chicken or Hawkeye the Drone is capable of better than if I called 'em "Coq Au Vin" or "Model 86743-D". My dog and car even come when summoned, at times. We cool.
What I've found is that the horse analogy works best. And horses have names. There's a division of labor. A lot like the way our Central Nervous System sets targets and top level parameters, while our Autonomous Nervous System handles the details: the heart rate, blood pressure, GI tract motility, and in this case the steering, slowing, trotting forward along the path. When told what to do, and kept under control, Nicki the Tesla does well, better and better. I don't whip horses or kick dogs, or smash automatons. They're taught to help, and they're learning.
It adds greatly to my pleasure to see the car's intelligence improve, and its behavior evolve: more audacious at times, overly hesitant at others. It's a very tough AI task; it's truly never been done before. Worth every penny for me. And Nicki's doin' good. Eyes in the front, back and sides, more sensors and logic than I can muster. There's a lot of give-and-take, and bonding, in how we work together. Sorry it "creeps you the fugg out" that I consider it a "being".
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People that anthropomorphize their cars creep me the fugg out.
I'm sorry to add to your discomfort. I can't speak for others, but in my my case my wife offers many features that Nicki The Tesla lacks.
Yet I think it fair to explain a couple of things. First, I find the wokey Gender twisting of language in relation to humans to be symptomatic of profound cultural and neurological damage. The car, however, has both male and female attributes in my eyes, so I find it very amusing. There's also a reference to Professor Tesla, and a Toni Basil song.
Personification of objects and animals has some operational value. Hey, Google, Hello Amazon, Whoa Siri. With regard to semi-intelligent entities there's something in how I've "worked" with them over the past decades. For a coder-designer, personification has some use. I remember what Pokey The Chicken or Hawkeye the Drone is capable of better than if I called 'em "Coq Au Vin" or "Model 86743-D". My dog and car even come when summoned, at times. We cool.
What I've found is that the horse analogy works best. And horses have names. There's a division of labor. A lot like the way our Central Nervous System sets targets and top level parameters, while our Autonomous Nervous System handles the details: the heart rate, blood pressure, GI tract motility, and in this case the steering, slowing, trotting forward along the path. When told what to do, and kept under control, Nicki the Tesla does well, better and better. I don't whip horses or kick dogs, or smash automatons. They're taught to help, and they're learning.
It adds greatly to my pleasure to see the car's intelligence improve, and its behavior evolve: more audacious at times, overly hesitant at others. It's a very tough AI task; it's truly never been done before. Worth every penny for me. And Nicki's doin' good. Eyes in the front, back and sides, more sensors and logic than I can muster. There's a lot of give-and-take, and bonding, in how we work together. Sorry it "creeps you the fugg out" that I consider it a "being".
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