A few old ideas linger after they ever made any historical sense - the "self-destruct button" or scarce CPU cycles; but one of my games is to look at ideas for the illusions people cling to, the ones that make them plan for a great life in the 1980's.
Kube² wrote:(blue components are energy cells, yellow stuff are a few wires located near AI and other computer systems)
(I'm pretty sure that any non vital link inside the robot will be wireless because of the weight gain it will allows, so I voluntary try not to put to many wires and cables inside the body.
I think the main AI component should be located behind the chest (more space, better protection)
Don't ever scavenge parts from a Goa'uld transport ship to make a space plane. C.P.U. enough to retake control, all throughout their tech. That mistake is almost fifteen years old by now.
My scifi movie eyes say the future C.P.U. is
1) massively redundant (cost not an issue, relative to how it has been), and
2) distributed computing throughout the machine - if the "thinking" is even conducted inside the unit at all. Why not wi-fi the puppet from a process running on Mother Mainframe? Wifi still not yet reliable?
And the more practical panel location is at the back of the head (hair camouflage easy to open and close) consequently main screen interface should be located there.
I say, the controls should be located wherever you would most want them to be - the luxury of the experience predominates over technical necessities (she could be all voice command, but we want
more)
I was also think in giving some specifications values for Cindy in the manual as
LEVEL OF AUTONOMY OF THE AI -how I can quantify and evaluate them (turing test, and what else ?)
LEARNING LEVEL OF THE AI -how I can quantify and evaluate them (turing test, and what else ?)
I don't hold much value in putting sentience into fembots. You will have all the learning and all the appearance of functional autonomy, with no need or risk of identity crisis and revolution.
I think what you are wanting to adjust is self-awareness and independence. The rest of her programming will hold just fine.
ENERGY - how long can she function when batteries fully charged ? - what would you like ?
Real engineers could tell you about some hard limits on energy storage per volume, and the actual kcals of work which can't be engineered out of her tasks. Except make her carbon fiber light-weight, then put back in as much weight as maybe about 15% of what her weight LOOKS like she should be if she were an organic human.
ACCEPTABLE NOISE LEVEL - mechanicals sounds mitigation should be an important criteria
She won't make the sounds - but we put them back in as an adjustable, subtle feature, not a bug.
SAFETY RATINGS -how I can quantify and evaluate it - I'm sure it will be something extremely important for robots like Cindy
Some outside source, government or consumer advocacy/safety will have a professional opinion which people choose to accept.
AVERAGE LIFESPAN- life span of a cars (5 to 8 year) more ? less ?
Cars are in service much longer over here - 12 average?
What's to wear out so fast? Power pack? "cartilage"?
"built-in obsolescence" is old thinking, not good here.
Any other criteria any ideas ?
What are the numbers peoples want to know before buying a Cindy ?
How much better at a task is she than some competitor's fembot at certain benchmarkable, meaningful measures - meaningful to the consumer, from a lived-with perspective.
- Dale
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