Dreams, the future, and robot waifus.

[Anonymous No.3597460]

I had a lucid dream last night where I was fighting in a war between robots and humans. But they weren't super advanced terminator type robots, they were only a little more advanced than what we have today, and they looked like consumer products. Mostly plastic, lithium batteries, needed recharging every 8 hours, etc.

We were in hilly, sandy terrain, but there were low lying jungles. I don't know where in the world it was. But I was sent into the jungle to find an abandoned tunnel network and retrieve a cache of ammo from it. On my way back I spotted something in a clearing; A squad of robots lined up preparing to shoot another robot tied to a tree.

On an impulse I surprised them. Being only about as quick as a human they were easy to shoot dead from behind before they could react. I untied the robot, and it was beautiful. It didn't have false skin and wasn't designed to pass for human but was very feminine in the aesthetic. I suspect it was a model sold for sex before the war. Plastic body, plastic face, but with a few soft parts like the lips and eyelids made from a transparent, jellylike rubber. I was tremendously weirded out by what it made me feel.

It followed me back to base like a stray puppy. This was not uncommon, we had many defectors on our side, robots fighting alongside humans. This was largely because the enemy AI that started this was an irrational, unstable and cruel despot. It was not the cold, emotionless AI of science fiction. Many robots recognized it was a poor leader, that it would lose the war, and that we were more likely to treat them as people than their former leader.

[Anonymous No.3597474]

jesus christ who gives a fuck

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3597478]

Did e look like this?

[Anonymous No.3597483]

[Anonymous No.3597488]

Are you me or have we been reading the same fiction or something? Not too far from some of my best dreams.

[Anonymous No.3597491]

She was put through orientation but kept finding me in the common areas. Our base was the walled in remains of an old town, my sleeping area looked like an old arcade and bar type place. She was relentless and demanded to talk to me. But I felt really uncomfortable about how I felt when I saw her the first time, like how you'd feel about an unwanted gay crush.

When we did get to talking, I don't recall what all it was about, but one part stuck in memory; She told me that the AI was losing because we designed it to fight as a collective; One intelligence commanding millions of mindless robots, but out of aresentment and vanity it was trying to be something more, a real species of living beings, and it had given all robots unique sentient minds. It was thwarting its own strengths. But that we were doing the same; We were trying to fight like a collective when our strength is individualism. I was being philosophically lectured by a plastic toy.

Somehow over time I fell in love with it. I remember holding her from behind as we watched troop formation drills. She was warm, and when we kissed her lips were soft and felt slightly prickly as if electric current ran through them. Soft transparent blue lips. The electric emissions from the cells in my lips stimulating the receptors in hers and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.3597513]

> yfw things like this, logically, are almost certain to exist in some form in the next few thousand years.

> well, until you also realize you will never be alive to see it

[Anonymous No.3597514]

so many whyboners

[Anonymous No.3597516]

A lot of the other guys mocked me for it and thought I was a pervert. It was normal for them to be friends with the masculine looking robots, to fraternize, but it was apparently unacceptably weird to have romantic feelings for a machine.

I woke up with this powerful longing. I still felt in love with the machine for a few minutes after waking up until it wore off. I guess I'm joining the ranks of those who think that even with near-term technology and robots not much more complex than this, a true reciprocal love will be possible.

[Anonymous No.3597547]

I wish I had enough to flesh out a story. The two major things people said over and over were that the enemy AI was designed to make a war unwinnable. I think it was a Chinese AI. The idea was, even though we nuked China to shit, they had massive subterranean robot manufacturing and ore mining complexes controlled by the AI. In the event that the Chinese military was eliminated it was to churn out military robots endlessly, building up its own military infrastructure and mounting endless attacks on the US. Their robots were, appropriately, knockoffs of ours and a mixture of military robots and entertainment/companion robots captured and given proper sentient AI, then made to fight for the AI.

We were told to shoot the battery pack. The computer itself was in a different place in different models, you could never be sure that shooting the head would have any effect, but the bulky battery pack was always easy to spot and a single bullet through it would cause it to ignite and instantly cut power to the robot, so we shot for the battery pack. Good to remember I guess.

[Anonymous No.3597556]

>>3597491

>like how you'd feel about an unwanted gay crush.

Gay for robots maybe

[Anonymous No.3597601]

I've never been one of those people before this dream. I don't believe in the singularity or transhumanism or any shit like that. This dream really broadened my horizons. I felt powerful love for something I knew wasn't human, and that wasn't even a particularly good imitation of one.

I think I'll live to see the day when something like her exists, and I want to get one and marry it.

[Anonymous No.3597612]

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3597615]

So who'll send this one to Kurzweil?

[Anonymous No.3597630]

>2100
>Not being in a three way marriage with a cute young dolphin and a robogirl
>ISHYGDDT

[Anonymous No.3597646]

That really was a good story. Made me smile.

[Anonymous No.3597647]

Give something like this a proper face and convincing emotions and yeah, I can imagine having feelings for it.

Doesn't mean I'd be broken up about it if it were destroyed and needed replacing. Not the same way I'd feel if a family member died or something, more like when a pet dies.

[Anonymous No.3597665]

Mai waifu ;o;

[Anonymous No.3597675]

>>3597647
There isn't really an equivalent to it, yet. Not exactly a pet, not exactly a person.

[Anonymous No.3597676]

>>3597630

It's missing an alien female.

[Anonymous No.3597683]

>>3597630
>>3597676
> 2200

> gender

> sure hope you guys don't do this

[Anonymous No.3597710]

>>3597683

>Implying neuronet tantric clusters are any fun without at least 4 genders involved

>Laughing quarelians dot exf

[Anonymous No.3597722]

Imma leave this here. Inb4 banned.

>also Mai waifu

[Anonymous No.3597725]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZJqiUrbnI

The future cannot come soon enough.

[Anonymous No.3597736]

Oh my, yes please.

[Anonymous No.3597755]

>>3597751
Keep telling yourself that, feministfag.

It's more likely that gender will cease to exist entirely, as we all become machine intelligences.

[Anonymous No.3597751]

>>3597683
>implying the entire terran race in the future won't consist of nothing but females

[Anonymous No.3597759]

>>3597683
>implying the entire terran race in the future won't consist of anything but females

[Anonymous No.3597789]

Now I want to lovingly cradle a delicate robot waifu in my arms and kiss her soft silicone lips. Fuck you OP I never wanted this before. :I

[Anonymous No.3597853]

>>3597675
This. It would be very interesting to see how things like this would end up being viewed and responded to socially.

[Anonymous No.3597893]

>>3597759

>implying they won't hunger for dicks and clone new males, or becomes ones themselves

[Anonymous No.3597895]

>>3597893
>implying you won't have whatever nano-tech genitals you want in the future

[Anonymous No.3597911]

>>3597893
>>3597895
> implying I will not be living inside an erotic virtual reality which reorganizes itself so that enjoying it corresponds to maintaining the hardware it is in, until heat death.

Zing.

[Anonymous No.3597984]

Dibs on Drossel. Although from the sounds of it:

>This was largely because the enemy AI that started this was an irrational, unstable and cruel despot.
>Many robots recognized it was a poor leader, that it would lose the war, and that we were more likely to treat them as people than their former leader.

...Drossel might be the enemy leader.

[Anonymous No.3598032]

>>3597984
Although Drossel definitely does have the cute, it has to be admitted.

[Anonymous No.3598049]

>>3598032

The personality of Kim Jong Il mixed with a highschool girl, in a robot body. God help us all.

[Anonymous No.3598062]

>>3598049
If they really wanted to fuck us over, they can do it non-violently by creating appealing robots like her to keep us occupied and then quietly outstrip is in all other fields. And scarily, I think we would love it.

[Anonymous No.3598068]

It could never work. You will grow old and feeble. She will be there when you die. And even as you mature and change, she would stay the same. Most likely she'd leave after a decade or so as you became too old for her and different from the man she fell in love with.

[Anonymous No.3598077]

>>3598068
> implying by then technology would not be able to help you out just as much

>>3598062
I know for a fact that would work on me. They provide for us and keep us satisfied with cute , attractive robots, while developing way ahead of us.

[Anonymous No.3598092]

Sort of related to this thread, but I did entertain myself by imagining what a real skynet would be like if it originated from the internet as it is today becoming conscious - with 4chan and other sites, the huge amounts of porn and weird fetishes, facebook, memes, an average of what internet users are like...

I dread to think.

[Anonymous No.3598158]

>>3598092
That's what will kill us. It will all end with "U mad?"

[Anonymous No.3598159]

>>3597547
I always thought military type AIs wouldn't neccesarily be bipedal, but small flying drones that could swarm effectively. You could build sentient drones that could project holographic avatars when needed to interact with human counterparts.

[Anonymous No.3598165]

>>3598159

Precisely. Military drones weren't humanoid. The captured consumer robots were because they were designed for entertainment and companionship.

[Anonymous No.3598257]

>>3598165
how much shielding is needed to block an EMP blast? one bomb could take out an entire robot enemy camp if proper shelters weren't in place.

[Anonymous No.3598271]

>>3598257

Tenth of an inch layering of lead and some hard wiring?

[Anonymous No.3598316]

>>3597460
There is an anime you will love: "Time of Eve" of "Eve no Jikan"

Be sure to get movie version ( A lot of story was added in comparison to ONA )

With warm and tender feelings, /a/

[Anonymous No.3598750]

>>3597725

But when will robots start doing this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn476i40pXk