{"id":3698,"date":"2006-10-14T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T16:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/10\/14\/3698.html"},"modified":"2006-10-14T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2006-10-14T16:54:20","slug":"indicator-lights-vs-facial-exp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/10\/14\/indicator-lights-vs-facial-exp\/","title":{"rendered":"Indicator lights vs facial expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imagine an alternate world in which scientific and technical prowess doesn't often go hand-in-hand with difficulty in understanding the subtleties and nuances of social interaction.<\/p>\n<p>In such a world, would car dashboards have facial expressions instead of indicator lights?<\/p>\n<p>For bonus points, discuss the real-world implications of this question, if any, for strong AI.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if God were a geek, would we have indicator lights instead of facial expressions?<\/p>\n<p>(Questions prompted by noticing once again that it can be awfully hard to recognize when one is in a bad mood from within the mood. Wouldn't it be easier if we came with a \"Low Mood\" light that would start blinking when necessary?  He asked, geekily.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine an alternate world in which scientific and technical prowess doesn&#8217;t often go hand-in-hand with difficulty in understanding the subtleties&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}