"A fable, most assuredly. But who's to say at some distant moment there might be an assembly line producing a gentle product in the form of a grandmother.
Whose stock and trade is love.
Fable?
Sure.
But who's to say?"
I fear the utopian image Serling & Bradbury painted may have planted a seed of unchecked techno-optimism that contributed to the rise of 21 century techno-capitalism.
But I it's hard to deny how Serling's epilogue takes on a new light after 64 years.
But Bradbury also didn't imagine how Capitalism and greed would interplay with these machines.
When the children grow old enough, she says:
"You're going off to college now, you won't need me. That's the way it should be. I'm not the world. And the world needs you."
I find it fascinating that Bradbury imagined AI as training wheels. Not the center of the world.
The episode's music makes the artificial grandmother sympathetic. But some of the dialogue is hard not to hear with a sinister tone.
At one point Ann runs away and Grandmother says
"There's no place for her to go. No place to go, except to me."
When Grandmother arrives, one of the children, Ann, has more doubts than the others.
Grandmother's attempts to convince Ann feel uncomfortably close to today's AI and its enthusiast singing the praises of electric machines that can think for us.
Grandmother says: "This machine can love."
Definitely an influence on Philip K Dick.
The children of the widower pick out their new Grandmother's eyes and it echoes of scenes in Bladerunner where James Hong makes eyes in his lab.
Do Androids Dream was published 6 years after this episode and already questioned the utopian side of sci-fi.
An Artificial Grandmother
I'm rewatching the Twilight Zone "I Sing The Body Electric" (Bradbury 1962)
Where-in a single-father needs help raising his 3 children. So he buys a custom artificial grandmother from a showroom.
The episode plays itself wholesome and sweet, but I feel the sweetness has soured with time.
Deep cut.... On multiple levels
Alexander the living jar sitting in a bonsai pot with succulents
I put my Alexander in a larger pot.
That is all.
I posting infrequently.
Partly because this medium rewards behavior I'd rather not participate in.
Reacting to every trend, focusing on a narrow set of topics, generating "content" instead of conversations, converting myself into a brand.
And bsky is 1000% times better than the other sites
I love a good bit of tape in the mix
Carving of a "Sunner" on a rock
Carving of a "Ytrams" on a rock
Pictures from my yard.
#riven
"What did Jack Do?" is currently my favorite thing.
A cute cat who likely lives next door to Keys Lounge
I love a cat in a public space.
This one was at Keys Lounge this week.
I thought it was a fixture of the place.
Turns out it just sneaks in and gets cozy with the customers.
A bartender carried it out.
Later we saw it trying to get back in.
I am lightly searching for work : )
I finished up on Big Hops at the end of November and planned to take all of December to work full time on Order Automatica.
I'll probably make a more thorough post later, but if you have need for a programmer/designer I'd be happy to talk!
Kidnapping people is bad, mmmkay.
I wonder... If I didn't have two partners that I share my every thought with... Would I post my every thought on social media?
My little dude hanging out in a high place
While researching historical homes, I've come across so many instances of people striping places down to the studs. Then replacing beautifully unique accents with boring, white, meaningless, textureless, heartless drywall and primer.
I am sad
A human under a cat
Human and cat in their natural state
Dean has me right where he wants me
Good God.
I doodle ideas every day and they frequently look like garbage.
But without using the pen to get it out, I can't process the ideas.
Trans people deserve the lives they want to live.
That is all.
I learned a new thing that will save me MANY hours.
That is all.
(PS to self: It was creating collision meshes in Blender)
So proud to have been a part of the amazing team for this game. Excellent trailer, I can’t wait to see where the game goes from here!
I spent all day building tools for art pipeline automation.
It was worth every minute.
I have accepted that my BlueSky posts are for my own records.
With that in mind... I might post here a bit more often
I have a cold and I'm at the beach. So naturally, I'm creating modeling automation processes.
Here I've automated populating vertex colors on 10,000+ cubes.
I party hard.
I feel very smart today.
After developing artistic skills/processes building one area of a game project, I decided to continue focusing on those skills while they're hot.
Thus ingraining them more fully and helping me feel more confident as I tackle all the tasks that need these skills.
My partner (in a slightly manic ADHD state) just left the room singing "meds meds meds meds" as if it were "shots shots shots shots".
