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People commented that they felt emotions for their stuffed animals, plants, furniture and even the voice behind their phone’s GPS. “We’re sort of hardwired to connect with other people, and sometimes that extends to other (things) who aren’t people,” Shepard said. Anthropomorphizing household objectsWhen people feel sympathy for inanimate objects, they are anthropomorphizing, attributing human behaviors or feelings to animals or objects who cannot feel the same emotions as we do, Shepard said. When Wilde first shared the video, she thought she might be the only one who experienced emotions for the unassuming objects, she said. These AI companions are becoming increasingly popular, but experts don’t yet know how these bots can affect someone’s development or psychology, Wei said.
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(Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)Dolce and Gabbana's luxury perfume for dogs — costing over $100 — has sparked concerns from some animal welfare organizations. The Italian fashion house's alcohol-free fragrance mist for dogs, which costs £83 ($105) on its U.K. website, is inspired by Fefé, the pet dog of brand-owner Domenico Dolce. However, the fragrance has drawn some concern from animal welfare organizations and experts who warn that perfumes can interfere with a dog's sense of smell. Oils such as ylang ylang which is included in Fefé, can also have a positive effect, he said. RSPCA's Potter also noted that some "lightly-scented products," which do not use aversive scents or interfere with a dog's sense of smell, can have a calming effect.
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On Tuesday, Lilian Weng, head of safety systems at OpenAI, wrote on X that she "just had a quite emotional, personal conversation" with ChatGPT in voice mode. Try it especially if you usually just use it as a productivity tool," Weng wrote. AdvertisementAdvertisementJust had a quite emotional, personal conversation w/ ChatGPT in voice mode, talking about stress, work-life balance. OpenAI and Weng did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside of normal working hours. Mehtab Khan, fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, described Weng's post as "a dangerous characterization of an AI tool, and also yet another example of anthropomorphizing AI without thinking about how existing rules apply/don't apply."
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Go with a growth mindsetPrior to ChatGPT's public launch, most managers had minimal experience using generative AI. That changed quickly as some businesses — including IBM — suggested that managers start using AI or risk losing their jobs. The better question for leaders is, "Do I believe I can learn to leverage generative AI in a productive way?" We are seeing this at an organizational level with AI, as some leaders put the brakes on using generative AI, based in part on perception of an AI-related skills gap among employees and the challenge of filling that. The conclusion here is that to get the best of generative AI, don't play into a dictator-servant relationship.
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Opinion | The Nature of Joy
  + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Margaret Renkl | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Joy is not a given in the natural world. The baby rabbit I watched cavorting in the pollinator garden was almost certainly born in the nest next to our backyard brush pile. I have seen no other survivor from that litter, and their mother is still the lone adult rabbit in the yard. I think the ever-present threat my wild neighbors live with must tell us something about the nature of joy. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram.
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Blake Lemoine, a former Google engineer, says AI is the most powerful invention since the atomic bomb. Lemoine was fired by Google in June 2022 after he claimed the company's chatbot is sentient. Now he's warning that the AI bots being developed are the "most powerful" pieces of technology invented "since the atomic bomb." Google fired Lemoine on June 22, saying he violated the company's employee confidentiality policy. A Google spokesperson told Insider in June that there is no evidence to support Lemoine's claims that the company's AI is sentient.
It's a profit-making move designed to leverage our very human tendency to see human traits in nonhuman things. Look, I don't think we don't need to treat chatbots with respect because they ask us to. Making chatbots seem as if they're human isn't just incidental. So the real issue involving the current incarnation of chatbots isn't whether we treat them as people — it's how we decide to treat them as property. The robots don't care."
We know Mars rovers are robots, but they feel like friends, or pets. "It's the way the rovers are designed," Abigail Freeman, the deputy project scientist of the Curiosity rover, told Insider. The first selfie NASA's Opportunity Mars rover snapped. Their ability to snap selfies on the Martian surface make them seem self-awareNASA's Curiosity Mars rover created this selfie in front of Mont Mercou. On February 12, 2019, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent the last commands to ask NASA’s Opportunity rover on Mars to call home.
‘Good Night Oppy’ Review: Robots on Mars
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
An entire generation has grown up understanding that having access to high-quality images from the surface of Mars is routine. The rousing documentary “Good Night Oppy” seeks to restore a proper measure of wonder to the spectacularly effective deployment of exploration rovers to the surface of a once-unreachable planet. “Good Night Oppy,” which is now in theaters ahead of a Nov. 23 release on Prime Video, is directed in a kid-friendly way by Ryan White , who largely leaves technical and scientific information to the side and concentrates on anthropomorphizing the two ingeniously engineered robotic machines, Spirit and Opportunity, that were flung into space in 2003 to explore the Red Planet. The twin rovers were solar-powered, but because of the inevitable accumulation of dust on their panels were expected to go defunct for lack of power in 90 “sols”—the scientists’ term for Martian days. Instead, Spirit endured more than six years, while her plucky sister Opportunity, or “Oppy,” kept sending the astronomic equivalent of letters home to her parents for nearly 15.
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