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?
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?
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.