Machine Love Is Coming to a Screen Near to You
Author: George Pór Issue: 2023-07-19
Machine Love Is Coming to a Screen Near to You
by George Pór
Excerpted from George's original Medium post, Machine Love Is Coming to a Screen Near to You.
So, recently, when the AI revolution broke out, I welcomed it with the question, how can we unleash its emancipatory potential for freeing all of us from wage slavery and other forms of enslavement? How will AI support the self-organization and coordination between people and their composable communities and networks for realizing such macro-scale goals?
There is an ongoing banter between the companion in evolutionary spirituality and the radical sociologist, two aspects of myself. The companion says a peaceful and well-aligned world requires individuals who are peaceful and well-aligned within themselves. The radical sociologist agrees, but he comes back saying yes; however, such individuals will appear at the requisite scale only in a deliberately developmental society where the highest goal of all institutions and the society at large is the flourishing of each individual.
On good days, those roles I play stop arguing and agree on a “both/and and more” approach. Because today is a good day, I can look at the potential of AI through both lenses, even at their interdependent relationship.
Today, it’s easier because I came across a paper that has blown my mind more open and was also heartwarming, which I can rarely say about a scientific experiment. I am talking about Machine Love, by Joel Lehman, which gave my research a new impetus and became one of the sources of inspiration for my forthcoming book on Prometheus and the Rise of Compassionate AI. Don’t take the title wrong; I’m not saying that AI has human-like compassion, and the same is true for the “loving machines.”
Machine Love reports a proof-of-a-concept experiment that features love not as an emotional experience but as learnable practical skills for supporting others in their growth and development.
... continued at https://technoshaman.medium.com/machine-love-is-coming-to-a-screen-near-to-you-e1fd13fd08b2
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