Wired: Game Life | Kara is self-aware, Heavy Rain maker claims
March 8, 2012
Source: Wired: Game Life — March 8, 2012 | Chris Baker
A new tech demo featuring sophisticated performance-capture technology made by the game developer Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Indigo Prophecy) was inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity is Near.
The clip, which David Cage, the head of Quantic Dream, unveiled on Wednesday at a Game Developers Conference presentation, shows an android named Kara becoming self-aware as she is being assembled, and desperately insisting that her sentience is a feature and not a bug.
“There will come a point where artificial intelligences are smarter than us, it’s inevitable,” Cage said in an interview with Wired prior to the grand unveiling. “This clip is about the moment that happens.” [...]
Comments (2)
by Dr, Louis L. Taylor
This came a little before I expected! When I told one of my classes that self awarness by an android would come soon more than half of the class disagreed!
LLT
by Editor
“self awareness”: no evidence for that is presented; I changed Wired’s misleading title