Cool! I hope this sort of thing continues. This specific robot is obviously pretty limited, but it seems like this sort of thing can evolve into really great robots over time. It's certainly a positive thing seeing something like 'early Linux/FOSS' in the robot world.
I would love to be able to avoid Big Tech robots and still end up with useful, cool and affordable robots. I'm in no huge hurry, so the limitations of this robot at this stage don't really bother me.
Hell yeah, kitty! This new box DOES smell fresh and ready for fun, right?
Great track on a great album! So much cool 'big beat' style production..
It seems like this would be awesome if done really well. Hopefully each village co-op won't become a village hub of corruption, and the people working there will be monitored closely enough and paid decently enough so that they have good reasons to NOT engage in corruption.
I suggest you ask an AI, like Deep Seek, that can give you a bunch of info for your exact situation. e.g. mention what country you are coming from, and ask for a list of options based on what you want the process to be like, ideally. Then ask follow up questions as needed.
And if it's not obvious, don't tell the AI personal stuff like your name. They shouldn't upload anything from your conversation, but it's best to be safe, in case they upload data anyway.
Classic Roger Dean goodness
People like to chat and vent about relationship stuff, and coming up with new wacky terms to describe the stuff is fun.
Maybe your relationship with a hot cat-girl you really liked was, um, problematic:
'At first, Miso love-bombed (💣) you into oblivion—showing up at your door with dead birds (gifts?), kneading your thighs while whispering "You’re my favorite human… for now." But soon, the breadcrumbing (🥪) began: "Let’s chase lasers together… but not this weekend. Or ever, probably." When you tried to leave, she hoovered (🚁) you back with a dramatic, tear-streaked "I licked your sweater and now it smells like me—you can’t go." Classic situationship purgatory.
Then came the zombieing (🧟)—after a month of silence, she slid into your DMs with "Did you delete my number, or…?" followed by future faking (⏱️): "We should get a tiny apartment with 100% sunbeam coverage." (Spoiler: She never signed a lease.) You were clearly benched, her backup human for nights her other "kittens" were busy. The slow fade was brutal: replies dwindling from novels ("I dreamt about you…") to single letters ("k."). Just when you moved on? Paperclipping. A 4 AM "pspsps" text. You blocked her… or so you thought.
THE ENDING YOU DESERVE: One year later, you’re at a café—happy, healed, dating a nice dog girl who fetches your coffee instead of your sanity. Then… a flicker of ears at the window. Miso. Her eyes widen. You brace for chaos—but she just drops a crumpled note ("Sorry I broke your PS5. And your heart.") and darts away. The dog girl growls. You laugh, toss the note, and order a croissant. Finally free.'
(Lesson: Never let a cat girl gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss you into emotional ruin. Unless her apology comes with a new PS5. Then maybe consider it.) 🎮🐈⬛💔
No. Why do you assume I don't know what veganism is, after I already said I was joking? It's not eating animal food products, including not eating foods that contain some animal food products. Let's please finish this conversation...
Joking, but not trying to troll
Slightly less percentage of raw red meat in the final product, with cute packaging featuring the color green
Yeah, Eno actually has made a variety of albums and art installations using generative simple AI for musical decisions, although I don't think he does any advanced programming himself. That's why it's really odd to see comments in an article that imply he is really uninformed about AI...he was pioneering generative music 20-30 years ago.
I've come to realize that there is a huge amount of misinformation about AI these days, and the issue is compounded by there being lots of clumsy, bad early AI works in various art fields, web journalism etc. I'm trying to cut back on discussing AI for these reasons, although as an AI enthusiast, it's hard to keep quiet about it sometimes.
Denouncing Microsoft.
Oh, and coining the term Ambient Music, and being an electronic music pioneer. ...Nothing as historic as composing a chime sound for windows, once, however.