Look, I know this buzz marketing for ROBOT DOUBLES (in which I am an investor).
But it really is a good song.
And it is called CHARMER by Aimee Mann, and the director is Tom Scharpling.
That is all.
Endorsed because robot Aimee Mann would never try to enslave all humankind.
I suppose we should have an appropriate soundtrack as humankind careens headlong toward the inevitable Singularity.
It’s a new kind of Turing test: make a robot that can play guitar so that someone listening would think it was a real person.
robot guitar by Andreaga on Flickr.
Technically impressive but the fact that tiny robots are learning to mimic iconic soundtracks does not comfort me any.
What was wrong with us in the 1980s?
(via cyborgcabaret)
Our robot overlords have established dominion over Russian prog rock. We are all doomed.
The human race is certainly doomed. How do I know this? Because the robots have achieved that particular sense of teen angst and ennui that causes them to play goth rock.
This video answers a lot of questions I have about people who build robots.
Need to get this robot theremin player hooked up with the singing robot mouth. Can you say “hit single”?
