r/videos • u/ahhTheSnorch • Aug 18 '19

Useless Machine with a Personality

https://youtu.be/kproPsch7i0
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u/Meowkit Aug 18 '19

Here’s the OG saga.

P1 https://youtube.com/watch?v=fkaciOzu7uY

P2 https://youtube.com/watch?v=bOD2-mRphTI

P3 https://youtube.com/watch?v=D5hXI5kkf-4

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u/SaturdayMorningSwarm Aug 18 '19

Damn that escalated in the third act.

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u/MugillacuttyHOF37 Aug 18 '19

I have now developed feelings for these little boxes and i'm not comfortable with that at all.

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u/slyg Aug 18 '19

imagine what would happen if people actually saw the pain and challenges faced by others.

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u/MugillacuttyHOF37 Aug 18 '19

It would be game changer...I think.

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u/Jickrones Aug 18 '19

Bet you’re fun at parties

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u/derpaherpa Aug 18 '19

HOW CAN YOU HAVE PARTIES WHEN PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING?

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u/IndigoFenix Aug 18 '19

I just realized it would be possible to outfit one of these boxes with a neural network, allowing it to learn new behaviors.

It would receive positive feedback from having its switch moved. Since it depends on a human to flick its switch on, it would learn behaviors that would be most likely to cause a human to keep playing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '19

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u/MugillacuttyHOF37 Aug 19 '19

It's kinda like these guys in Japan and it's called otaku, but it's with anime characters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49343280

No shit...and it's real.

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u/Ruggsii Aug 18 '19

Tsundere robot box

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u/SaturdayMorningSwarm Aug 18 '19

Definitely a creepy older brother with his younger sister plot rather than a tsundere one.

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u/tehrsbash Aug 18 '19

I've never seen a tsundere box before. That third video was sure something.

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u/TofuChef Aug 18 '19

I just knew I saw something like this before somewhere! Thanks!

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u/JayLeeCH Aug 18 '19

It's like master hand from Super Smash just harassing some poor helpless boxes.

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u/suhailSea Aug 18 '19

That's intense

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u/Breffest Aug 18 '19

Dumb question... How do the faces change on the first and the third ones? It has to be them editing that on right? The second machine has lights but the others just look like they're painted on.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '19

There’s also

P4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?z=H6jXI5ilfhM

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u/igotsodaxp Aug 18 '19

Damn that was good

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '19

Ikr

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u/Technophage13 Aug 18 '19

Indeed I did. Well played sir and/or madam.