On AI bots and gender

So, I asked on Twitter this morning, whether moving forward we should give robots genders, allow them choose (since they would be “intelligent beings” after all), or create non-human gender labels for them.

Should they even be humanoid? I mean, asides from making them more…relatable, are there any other reasons to attempt to model them using human paradigms like gender?

Thoughts?

This AI frenzy is an over hyped crap that am not even interested in or even seeing it getting too far as projected, just chill it’ll soon be over.

What I mean is AI doesn’t worth this poll same way It doesn’t deserve anything as gender.

To say AI isnt going to get far is abit short-sighted. Low level forms of AI exist in alot of our tech products without us evening know, so i doubt the AI frenzy is ending anytime soon.

you’re right about low-level AI been existing for long, but it’s(the
frenzy) still going to end, you’d ask where were everyone in the past
5-10 years and there was no question about ascribing gender to AI bots?

@henry_obinna repeat after me ‘I know I know nothing, for this is true knowledge’

Repeat twice before you go to bed and after you wake up.

It works wonders for me!

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It depends, I guess, on why you think we should make them relatable. If the robot does not need to speak, then I don’t see the need for a gender label. If it’s a ‘customer-facing’ robot that needs to speak (like Siri), then you should be able to choose what gender you want it to be (again, like Siri).
I suppose that at some point, an organization that fights for robot rights (a la PETA) will come into existence, and then there’ll be more discussions about letting said robots choose their gender(s?), etc.

This AI conversation really unsettles me. But then since they are AI, won’t they eventually pick their own gender. Say it’s created and since its evolving according to the human interaction it encounters/ cues from the work in general, it gets to pick it’s gender after a certain period of time. That’s to say it hasn’t been created for a certain gender specific task at which point this evolution point would be mute.
My general feeling towards AI is that’s it’s murky waters.

LOL I have no idea where this conversation has gone :smiley:

:angry:

well, I don’t know what that means