This is the first time that I find myself horrified by the ideas in a School of Life video. We don't need machines to do work for us, we need an emotional education, the development of emotional intelligence, not emotional technology. I'm appalled by the future imagined in this video.

@nicolegagneux9919

8 жыл бұрын

+The School of Life I will respectfully disagree. Books are not machines. Books might be a form of technology, but not machines. Reading a book that explains what emotional intelligence is and how to become more emotionally intelligent isn't the same as having a watch data-mine your life to let you know when your spouse is angry or not. I swear, I love all your videos, and I have learned a lot from them, they make me THINK. This video however, proposes the absence of reflection in favor of something a lot of commenters see as a dystopia of interpersonal communication. I do think discussing what's the difference between a book and a smartwatch, or if they're the same, would be fun.

@NeuroticKnight9

8 жыл бұрын

+Info Illness Morals are logically constructed and as long as it can be expressed in logical manner, machines can be programmed with consistency. This is why religious morals wont be the basis of AI, for one in a competitive world with fewer jobs, the inferior intelligence of a fundamentalist wont let them be hired in 1st place and as consistency is required in algorithms, and exceptions can be added but more the exceptions larger the code and less efficient the execution and market forces would lean towards a more humanitarian approach by default, because a humanist has less rules in general. All our current AI are secular be it siri, google now or cortana, so there is no logical reason to expect it will change in future.

@ThomasJDavis

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicole Gagneux Umm... that's one of the uses of the Socrates coach.

@turnipsociety706

8 жыл бұрын

+Neurotic Knight "morals are logically constructed" would mean than morals would be the same everywhere at any time. Morals are based on existential choices. There is such a thing as a morality of violence in recorded history

@NeuroticKnight9

8 жыл бұрын

Job Strutt Secular Morals to be exact, or what is termed as modern moralistic philosophy. Yes, religious and nationalistic values are saturated with bigotry.

This might be scary for most people because most people don't know themselves, their real self; and a technology that can say what's inside their mind sounds disturbing. But I see the positive side: it could help us to accept our problems, our faults and weaknesses.

@agiftfromdracosfather3490

8 жыл бұрын

maybe we don't have a "real" self and there is no way to feel "truly" happy and fulfilled

@liizzset

8 жыл бұрын

agreed

@victoriaangelique7261

8 жыл бұрын

+Eric Gouw I think people are scared at the idea of there could be technology that is tracking every person on earth, deciding for us things like who the right person is for us which is such a subjective thing, tracking our every move from the time we are 4 to determine these things. Who would have access to all this data? What is there are people who don't want to be tracked, monitored, and told who they should be with, that they should stay in a relationship if they're not happy. These things just seem too objective for even a computer to say without a doubt what is right and wrong and for information to be kept and cataloged of everyone like does seem very scary because someone must be able to see all that information and lastly if computers are making decisions for us there still must be people that program computers to on how to make decisions. No matter what there are a programmer's bias in a programming design and assuming that one day imperfect people are going to make perfect technology that help us make perfect decisions on subjective choices is a utopia my friend, hopefully not the future.

@falconJB

8 жыл бұрын

+The Fuzz By the point that this is possible basically all other jobs will already be done by AIs, this will be a way for AIs to pacify the majority of the human population in a nonviolent way.

@jeffm6651

8 жыл бұрын

There's already a technology for that. It's called psilocybin.

I really appreciate this aesthetic.

@talkimages

8 жыл бұрын

+KuzcoCool96 i love the animators this channel works with

what am I going to do with that mood ring I bought in the 70's?

I just see thousands of possible ways someone could abuse those systems.

@dantewhite5739

8 жыл бұрын

+Steinchen drei von und zu vierzig give some examples , please

@Idiosyncfilms

8 жыл бұрын

+Dante White Feeling down human? How about a Brand New Peppermint Flavored Mars Bar, with the perfect balance of sugar and nutrients to perfectly balance your mood... Still felling down human? How about another Brand New... Don't underestimate the might and will of advertising firms.

@SparkyonPC

8 жыл бұрын

+Steinchen drei von und zu vierzig Every piece of technology can be hacked in some ways, right?

@creatorchris712

4 жыл бұрын

I just happen to know hundrets of people who are already doing that in a thousand ways to control the masses

@zenab8682

4 жыл бұрын

Stinchen, that’s a very rational, grounded point. I agree. Please keep using your platform and speaking out!

The mood reader, hope it's not monitored for thought crime.

@themissinglambsauce

8 жыл бұрын

+Mouate that's probably inevitable

all I got from this is that privacy is a thing of the past.

@isildur8062

8 жыл бұрын

probably will be in the future, and we probably won't know about it.

@silicalnz3008

8 жыл бұрын

+jason eddie Why do you need privacy?

@isildur8062

8 жыл бұрын

SilicalNZ You don't necessarily need it but it's good to have for your character.

@peridot2912

5 жыл бұрын

Brain chemistry is still part of physical health. The applications outlined are based on our anatomy, not spirituality- though they may overlap sometimes.

@dddux

5 жыл бұрын

Stealing privacy, or rather stealing the behavioural data, is the current thing. In a better society you wouldn't have to be bothered with it.

That Socrates app sounded REALLY helpful. I'd love to have a (free, omnipresent) personal life coach to help me be the best version of myself.

@LemonadeMouthSomebod

8 жыл бұрын

+Dan Fox Me too!

If we let technology be in charge of not just our work but our humanity too, then we accept to exist only as automated meat sacks with no criteria or purpose other than being the passive, organic objects upon which technology acts, taking the lead role in what would them become our automated, anesthetized lives. Like in Wall-E or The Matrix without even the need for a self-aware tyrannical artificial intelligence, but instead, a simple combination of laziness and a bunch of different gadgets and apps.

@zd2243

8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel Caram I could give just one thumbs up, but I wanted to give at least a hundred.

@TraceLight

8 жыл бұрын

Plot twist! We are already living in a simulation...... Jk, but no seriously there is an interesting theory about that

@m.2891

8 жыл бұрын

+Gabriel Caram sounds great.

These are fascinating ideas, and I'm surprised so many people react so negatively to them. Trusting your future to a program in this way could be seen as risky, but it's also a practice in humility, in admitting that you don't really know how to make the best of your current situation and you would really like some help. If people could be convinced that our emotions can be understood and controlled in a loving way by programs and machines, than this could be a huge step for mankind. So far though, we haven't been shown much promise in these fields, quite the opposite really.......

@markishtons

8 жыл бұрын

if people need help, especially when it come to emotional matters, we should ask and accept advice from each other. to turn to machines is to turn towards isolation.

@PanNiebieski

7 жыл бұрын

Watch anime Psycho Pass. If this device exist we already live in dystopia future

@alexxx4434

Жыл бұрын

Machines will control us, but who will control the machines?

Big brother is always watching you... And willing to make you happier, in a brave new world ?

1.Mood Reader- what if I don't want to be mood read by other people? 2.Couple Finder- there goes all the fun in trying to find love. 3.Socrates- technology will know us better than we know ourselves that's just not a safe situation. 4.The last one is absolutely terrible killer of free will I can see countries abusing the software to make sure its citizens contribute to the societies with their highest capabilities. You won't be able to just pick what you want in life.

@nephildevil

8 жыл бұрын

+Xäp 8 The Divergent series is based on number 4 the kids rebel and overthrow society.

@DerFroschMitMaske

8 жыл бұрын

+Xäp 8 I strongly disagree with your counter arguments: 1. The video states at 2:04 that we would get to choose whom we give acces to our mood "readings", there fore it would be exclusive to the people of your choice and you could turn it off and on at will 2. I don't know about you but i personally find the first dates to be the worst parts of relationships, because you can never be really sure how compatible/ how good a chemistry you'd have. 2.5 (this aplies to all of them) nobody would be forcing you to use the techs- it would just be an option worth trying. 3. THis point is valid yet i think that we could use a little help for understanding ourselves better. How many times do we take the image/identity that other people project on us for the real self, and how sure can you be about the assesments you make through meditation? Are you only defined by your action or your thoughts? YOur intentions? Having a psychologically literate analysis of one self that can know one better than any outside person could really help (as much as i do see the dangers of datamining etc) 4. The tech does counsel you but in the end you get to decide. But why wouldn't you want to practice the work that would enable you to have great results AND great satisfaction!?! Imagine the kind of Utopia we could live in where everyone enjoys their work and is perfectly suited to it! And about your fear of governements forcing people to favor suitability over satisfaction, you have to admit that a country with such an opressive state would already be dystopian even without this technology. Curious about your thoughts- i personally find the matter extremely interesting!

@tegatobu8577

8 жыл бұрын

+DerFroschMitMaske Alright my brother you bring excellent points but.. 1. When he states "who we elect" i presume hes implying the other does not have a choice i obviously cant know the specifics of an invention that hasn't been created yet but i can imagine a situation where government/individuals uses these "readers" to scope the general population for "terrorists" or "criminals" based on their projected mood when entering a public square or private building. You could argue that nothing is wrong with that but its a whole other argument on the line of free will. 2.I completely agree first dates may be hard but the experience is what matters and may actually be the center point on how the relationship develops in the future. Plus the more bad dates you have the better character you build for those future ones. Making everything easier in life to the point where dating isn't stressful sounds very un-adventurous in my book. 3. I'm a philosophy major so on this one i truly feel that "Socrates" wont be able to fully recognize our psychological make up. Or if he can i feel it would change constantly due to instances in the real world so on one point i can see the plus on having a psychological therapist wrapped around your wrist who would be tailored specifically for you. On the other side privacy will be thrown out the window it would be a hackers dream. 4."You get to decide"will be a statement that weighs down on you in whatever practice you decide to pick up, always knowing you wont be suited for certain jobs may be an incentive or a poison. Also we both know companies will invest heavily on this tool to make sure the people they get are the cream of the crop. You think we have unfair standards now in hiring it will be 10X worse with this tool. The future is scary/exciting- love to hear your thoughts.

@peridot2912

5 жыл бұрын

We should never be ruled by technology. These are tools, they do not have to govern our lives.

Am I the only one who thought these where good ideas? I find that I often struggle to express my emotions and when I try it just doesn't work out very well. And I can't possibly be the only one who doesn't know what I'm going to do with my life or the the only one who doesn't know themselves that well.

@zanderpyle5114

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, the benefits of emotional technology would be enormous as far as I can imagine.

And this is how the Sibyl System was created...

@thatoneguy33198

8 жыл бұрын

+Sesese Masondo That is a scary thought, considering if a mood reader did exist it might lead to governments using it to predetermine criminality.

@JeffTheWiz1

8 жыл бұрын

+Sesese Masondo Yeeeaaaahhhh.... This sounds exactly like Sibyl... Not sure how I feel about this.

These ideas are truly terrifying for a number of reason. These devices remind me more of a dystopian surveillance giving me orwellian nightmares. What if the emotion reader picks of aggressive tendencies but without me acting on them? Will it guess that I would have an outburst in the future? Will this cause me to get arrested without actually having done anything? Reminds me an aweful lot of Minority Report. The spouse finder is a prefect tool to basically isolate yourself from any kind of interaction. Interacting with other humans is one of the most integral and fun part in our lives! Taking that away and simply assigning people to others therefore takes away more life quality than it could ever give back. But the Socrates might after all be the most horrendous device ever thought of. I would love to elaborate on this but since I'm not a native English speaker I lack the words to express my abstract philosphical thoughts on this.

@TheCarrifaery

6 жыл бұрын

so far so good, i'd like to hear more about your thoughts on the Socrates function of this app.

I worry how people would be able to notice if the mind reader gets something wrong. It would be a shame if a relationship breaks because the mind reader had a bug.

as much as these are fascinating ideas, technology and the advancement of modern society is what Is causing a lot of our troubles. so I think it is paradoxical to buy into the ideas to think that what is causing our problems will fix them i do not think these will be as successful. an example is facebook where you have hundreds of "friends" to "connect" with to broaden your horizons. when in reality most of never form any sort of meaning full relationships with these so called friends of ours. technology is in fact alienating us from the truth of how to live better. we should sometimes look back instead of looking forward.

@Animatone

8 жыл бұрын

Socrates himself stated to know thyself. Doesn't that imply that even as far as 3000 years ago, people still struggled with these problems? Blaming issues on modern constructs ignores that man is imperfect and has run against these problems for millennia.

@MrMinorChord

8 жыл бұрын

+Markus Kolozsy Exactly. The advancements in the fields of robotics and computers are really a blessing ten times over, but certain ways that take advantage of these breakthroughs to make money are getting in the way of true human happiness. The main component of this obstacle is distraction. Things like social media and pornography and addictive gaming have distracted us from the fact that our life really does suck. And the backfiring effects from the war on drugs have only worsened the widespread distraction by drug use. Technology that actually solved our problems and met our needs instead of distracting us would be the proper use of these advances in computers. However, this idea is Utopian, and may not be achieved if the entities benefiting from this distraction keep getting in our way.

@screechyboy93

8 жыл бұрын

I agree with all of you, however you can not say that constant advancement in society is always a good thing, I'm not talking about advancements that will benefit us such as imporved medical care or new scientific discoveries, but technology that is geared to the individual. not to speak of the population as a whole but there are a vast majority of people who would agree to an extend that technology in this sense is an impediment to ourselves. If any of you are interested there is an anthology series on Netflix called black mirror. Its an exaggerated version of what I'm trying to say, but it still makes you think..

@Jonnyvonwallstrom

8 жыл бұрын

+Joe Ross I absolutely agree with your opinion. To add some, I say it's not the question of when and what, but the accessibility of that emotional technology. How many of the present 7 billion people, or probably 10 or 11 billion in the next half a century, will have access to that financially? more than 50 percent of the population are under the middle-class margin in the social class pyramid. Why not think of a future technology that will motivate the rich to share their wealth without gaining something in return?

@Animatone

8 жыл бұрын

From a socialist standpoint, if wealth and opportunity was distributed equally, everyone would be able to afford basic technologies. The techs in this video aren't "basic" but given enough time to develope, they very well could be. I hope that with the assistance of technologies, we can learn to understand ourselves, which is necessary to understand others.

The mood detector reminded me of an anime called "psycho-pass" where technology developed to read people's moods and their Susceptibility to commit crimes. Replacing the police with pyscho police to can only use their weapons against people with dark pyscho-pass color.

@joot815

8 жыл бұрын

Yes! I knew this sounded familiar, I just couldn't place it. That was a great anime.

I as a sociopath know that "if you can control how they feel, you can control what they do" I hate to be pessimist, but if this happens, we're fucked

@mikey3932

8 жыл бұрын

+Djwhiskers ikr but its good insight anyway

@ThomasFrancoCanete

8 жыл бұрын

Djwhiskers First off, i said it couse is matter of subject. i dont give a fuck if im special or not, im just honest, and if it bothers you that much that im a sociopath, then, fuck it, i dont even want to finish my comment.

High production value on this one. The background loop sets the futuristic ambiance up perfectly and kudos to the animators! This was a pleasure to consume, tech- and content-wise.

I have never heard abomination discussed in such an upbeat fashion.

this is a horror, I would resent this future and do everything in my power to stop it

@anninhilator

8 жыл бұрын

+monty scanlan Why ?

@anninhilator

8 жыл бұрын

swifterik It doesn't need 100 % approval to work, just that enough people buy it

@joshuashepherd7133

8 жыл бұрын

+swifterik People like Monty are a dying breed. You like privacy ehh? yet you're on the internet

@falconJB

8 жыл бұрын

+monty scanlan Fight all you want, AI continues to march forward and most people are willing to let tech monitor basically everything they do already.

@montyscanlan2084

8 жыл бұрын

+Dorian Stern vukotic (Pigsaw Kykbuttowsky) the type of info the dating website (for example) would be devastating in the wrong hands, think how easy identity theft is now, think if info like that was stored on everyone in one place. no system is unhackable

The future technology I'm most looking forward to evolving and progressing is Electroceuticals. I can't wait to see the neural firing pattern underpinning belief, desire, character, abilities, behaviour and emotion being better understood.

The Spouse Finder sounds terrifying... I'd use it, but I would be EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE.

pretty scary to think that we will see machines speaking with complete command over our emotions, as if the lie detector test wasn't rigged enough

emotional tech - nice way to say brainwash you into doing boring work ;)

Only the last one seems like a great idea, the others just feel kind of creepy and take experience out of life

I just want to thank the artist, the tone of the video works so well with the colors and the crystal shaped drawings go along with the future theme perfectly, love it, just that alone made me feel very warm.

The Mood Reader sounds really scary. What i'm trying to say here is that i really dont want to live in a world where everyone can read eachothers thoughts. The whole social "game" you play when you are socializing would be gone.

I feel like this concept could be horribly horribly miss used. China is already trying to make video games that reward their citizens for being a 'prefect' citizen of China.

@piotrlanga9840

7 жыл бұрын

DrN0rd Is anything bad about being perfect citizen? We were exposed to propaganda for so many generations that we can't see that our beliefs and judgements are defect for the good of powerfull , rich and influencial. Churches, kings, communists, capitalists, oligarchs, revolutionists of all kinds. Men and women equality (or even sameness), disaprobation of nakedness, obedience to law and order, (actually kings, popes, cesars, and presidents were very unobedient in all history), all order serves the interests of influencial people, they often decide who should die and who should live (it's part of the evolution), we are no longer freely living, we are breed, and this is inevitable. Even you probably often decided what people you like and what people you don't, depending on their behaviour and habits. China leaders are doing the same, everyone does the same.

I believe that with the profound understood of our and others emotions we release space in the mind to enjoy more the present. The constant chatting (trance) in the mind, positive and negative, is what makes us suffer. This channel is really inspiring! Thank you

You just resumed 2 seasons of Psycho-Pass in 7 minutes without explaining the most important part: the horrific and inevitable misuse of this kind of technology. It's the ground zero for a nightmare society.

One step closer to perfection, one step farther from the glamour of the randomness of life.

@V3lkov

8 жыл бұрын

+Deniz Taylan Sağır So damn right. And If those actually become reality , how would psychotherapy evolve in order to keep track ? Too much perfection will kill it all. We'll die unchallenged and bored :)

Imagine how someone could totally screw up someone's life by hacking one of those devices. Depending on how much one trusts technology, they could ignore their true feelings and stay in a bad relationship because of a glitch or hack. But of course a computer or machine is much more efficient and reliable than person, right?

@zanderpyle5114

7 жыл бұрын

Go ahead, live in fear. Meanwhile, I'll live in optimism.

to me this carries huge breaches of privacy, I'm sure that a good portion of the public feels that way, this will be a reason for this kind of technology not to go mainstream.

Reminds me of the anime Psycho Pass....creepy

@christyme6395

8 жыл бұрын

I had the exact same thought. Thanks to everyone running around with a device that consoles them every five minutes we will reach a point where ten people will have to go into therapy because their stress level went too high after they witnessed someone fall and break their leg. We will no longer be able to handle the negative and it would not surprise me at all if like in the anime people's mental health became closely monitored at all times.

@Asiiaa00

8 жыл бұрын

Omg I literally pressed ctrl+F and typed in psycho pass to see if anyone was thinking about this anime cause it sounds exactly alike.

@sklxx7359

8 жыл бұрын

thank god i wasn't the only one who thought that! as good as this anime was, i have to say it so so frightening and horrifying ... if sth like that is really going to happen, then i hope i'll be dead by then! 😖

@MrThogin

7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing

@zanderpyle5114

7 жыл бұрын

None of you must've grasped the true point of Psychopass.

I can already see the bad side to some of these.

No I don't want people to read my mood with a machine or find me a spouse with a machine. Interesting though

I find this terrifying . A future where people can read our emotions (and manipulate us), a future where *everyone* is registered in a spouse finder (essentially turning human relationships into a kind of scientific formula), a future where we don't think for ourselves but need computers to tell us what would be best for us, and finally, a future where computers tell us what we will do with our lives. Wow. Just terrifying. I'm glad I will be dead in 50 years. I'll need to do whatever I can to ensure my grandchildren and their children don't have to live through this. The thing that bugged me the most is that you market these 4 points as something truly good.

@falconJB

8 жыл бұрын

+Aproposnix Jones Only way to stop this is to kill every AI researcher and I don't think that is going to happen.

First CGP Grey upgrades his visual style, now you guys do too. What a wonderful time to love minimalism.

This is by far the most interesting and inspiring video this channel has uploaded in my opinion. Perhaps I am biased in saying this as I am a tech entrepreneur, but emotional technology is the most exciting capability we have yet to develop. I very much wish I could befriend you, as Jason Silva says "you have to find the others".

@theschooloflifetv

7 жыл бұрын

Good luck with your tech ventures!

There will *NEVER* be a technotopia because technology is made by imperfect humans who don't understand themselves. Many of these won't work because: *1.* Emotion is complex. It is not only culturally sensitive but context sensitive. Humans often express emotions on the surface that contradict their inner emotions in order to manipulate or deceive or mislead. Tech won't change that. *2.* Imperfect relationships work because people are committed to each other. Even "perfect" relationships are ruined when one person decides they want something more. People are never satisfied, even with perfection, and always change their minds. *3.* The job matching tech is the scariest. How does the person programming the tech know which person is suited for what job? A lot of imperfect assumptions need to be made. Maybe they logically decide that someone genetically prone to deafness is not suited for music. But then you wouldn't have Beethoven. Humans barely understand the complexity of the brain, genetics, emotions and time. The technology that humans create won't be any better at understanding than the humans who create them.

@Spoot1RHGL

8 жыл бұрын

Beethoven was beginnint to gettinh deaf as a 28 year old and this was not bound to genetics. Hopefully medecine expands in effectivity as anything else in the future

@ataarono

8 жыл бұрын

+David Boucard those that don't work, will be thrown away, until we make some devices that work. you, overestimate humans and underestimate technology we can't outsmart computers forever

@theskv21

8 жыл бұрын

All your criticisms can be directed in the way of unsupervised machine learning?

@rsospring

8 жыл бұрын

+David Boucard 1, the tech will take into account the context, and also previous emotional responses based of that specific person. ( some of this is already available today go check out IBM big five personality classifier) 2, I agree 3, This is actually my current research interest, though i will like to state that my current intention is not to give a person a job based on X factors but more give them what jobs would be good for them based of their current attributes. The programmer wont be the one deciding this. AI is there to make sure programmers don't do any of the guess work, based of previous data the program will make assumption. Of course there is room for error, hence why these will be suggestions.

@niamy1

8 жыл бұрын

+David Boucard Or they said in the next 50 years or so and no one can accurately predict the advancements we can make in understanding our brains in that amount of time. Since we have only just really begun to do controlled psych experiments in the past 30 years and look at how much we have learned. We could reach the singularity by 2040 which is 25 years before this 50 year deadline, those robots could allow us to make the best computers and analytic programs that could surpass the human brain and help us figure out what we need to do. Also don't shut down a technological idea based off of philosophically invalid argument. Their is a philosophical inconsistency with your first objection, every major philosopher in the world agrees that there is an correct interpretation of right and wrong which is where all emotions stem from. The issue is that know one knows what that is. A computer that breaks the singularity might be able to tell us what the correct interpretation is. They addressed your second point that people want more but the device would convince them that if they strayed from the path they would never find anyone who would work with them as well as they have it now. Your third point is flawed in the same way your first one is, however I don't think that people would only work, they could still have hobbies and other things to take care of their mental health. If they began to show more promise maybe a yearly evaluation would help and if someone is in the wrong career they would only be in that spot for a year and then off they go in a more correct location. And who says the program has to be followed? It might very well be a movement to accept or reject the thought of being placed in a box based off of a computer algorithm. People might look at the rejectors like anti/pro-vaccine parents today. The debate would go on but I doubt it would be a necessity. But an encouraged tool just like talking to a school counselor is today. So that's my 2 cents Not really looking for a debate just trying to look at it from both sides. Have a good day. :)

what i really need is a porn finder

@rsospring

8 жыл бұрын

+Anand Nair Google.

@rohitshinde8257

8 жыл бұрын

+Sebastian Google only shows old stuff

@tyrionlannister8396

8 жыл бұрын

+I'mposs “RevEvo” ible its already happening in japan

Technology that is pro-active, like the Socrates described always gives me chills to think about. The experience of being told "hey, here is what would make you happy" is a very different one to receiving an answer to "Socrates, what would make me happy?" Technology that seemingly does things on it's own, rather than on the behest of my input is unsettling. When general purpose AI exists, is most people's fear not that it will do something we don't want it to do?

It might just be that I'm being conservative or pessimist, but I can't avoid thinking that this kind of technology would somehow turn us into some kind of robots. It feels that all the suffering and anxieties of life, that are all so important to our learning and maturing, would be avoided by this devices, and we would just live happy and satisfied like the people in Brave New World. If we have machines to work for us, to feed us, to talk for us, and now to even feel for us, what would be the point of living? At the other hand, I can cleary imagine an optimistic scenario where we would have this sort of help to help us handle things in life and so we would be able to focus our energies in something bigger. I happen to be quite divided between optimism and pessimism when it comes to progress.

@falconJB

8 жыл бұрын

+Leonardo Werk At this point there will be no point in focusing on something bigger, because the AI will always have completed it before you even finish considering the initial idea.

You know what is the best part ? At 20 50 i will be dead.

Soon we will be saying, back in the day we had to deal with the sadness and find our own solutions

Always with the deep and profound videos! Such a good channel as it deserves more views and subs than it already has. Keep up the good work!

Is this Alain de Botton talking?

@memphis3106

8 жыл бұрын

+gonzales I read the Alain de Botton article on Wired.

@lexaron

8 жыл бұрын

+The School of Life His voice is like chocolate for the ears.

I hope this is a metaphor. I hope this is just stating problems and not physical machines.

@TheCarrifaery

6 жыл бұрын

i thought the same thing but i'm afraid of the implications. technocalypse

Guys we need this! As we go down by the road in history we are more and more emotional. We need support with this issue.

the problem with all the mentioned technologies is it is taking away some of our agency, and our ability to fail. which may be convenient, but also no longer human at a certain point? difficult issue of offloading ethical considerations, and throwing intuition to the wind in belief of the technology to save us

Jesus Christ... Outsource all the problems that, in our continuous efforts to solve actually humanize us. Life contains these intractable and insoluble problems that we spend a life time understanding and attempting to solve, consistently failing to do so but growing into who we are as a result. You propose to obviate them, but for what end? Is there some place that we all desperately need to arrive at, the journey being expedient to it? Why don't we all cut to the chase and implant heroin dispensers in our blood streams and be in perpetual bliss?

I think this technology will bring 1984 nearer than anything else. Unfortunately, there is no economic gain in having happy people.

@shugaku2461

8 жыл бұрын

This is perfect if you want to be spied on 24/7. I think this would be a perfect premise for a dystopian novel.

Beautiful animation conveying some very hopeful ideas.

All this can sound really good, but technology is a mirror of mankind, and I think that mankind normally points toward hedonism. I don't share the idea that most people try to achieve higher things in life like self knowledge or questioning life, instead they are busy with the practical and shallow aspects of life (fame, money, status). Therefore, technology will improve in this direction.

this reminds me a lot of the film Her

This channel has changed my life. I don't always agree with your ideas but I'm glad to have them in my brain. Each of your videos has something special to offer to humanity and many of your videos have kept me optimistic and have boosted my self-esteem. Thank you 99999 times, S.o.L.

communicating your emotions for you, finding a spouse for you... if technology removes every little obstacle, struggle, and emotional journey in your life, what the hell is the point of living then? The machine is living for you

Sounds like you want to take what's human out of us..

@rsospring

8 жыл бұрын

+Olivebates you say this, but might i argue that this is the next level of human evolution.

@ataarono

8 жыл бұрын

+Olivebates why wouldn't you want that tho ?

@olivebates

8 жыл бұрын

sounds boring.

@proudnoob124

8 жыл бұрын

+Olivebates Not at all. Technology such as that will help us enhance our living experience - mostly eradicating all distortion, misinformation, and resulting negative responses that arise from having abstract emotions. If anything, this tech will make us more human, not less.

@anninhilator

8 жыл бұрын

+Olivebates Sounds boring... Fine, then don't use it, i know it would help me so i will :)

This sounds nice and all but this idea in practice seems a bit scary in my opinion

These tools all sound like they come from a dystopia like 1984, A Brave New World or The Giver. It's very unsettling to see them presented as tools for actual betterment, rather than tools to control us without knowing it.

emotional technology + machine learning = potential for social control so vast that huxley could not have imagined it

Or on the contrary, technological innovation peaked over a decade ago & our civilisation is in a permanent state of diminishing returns in terms of technological innovation & prosperity. Id say this is a good thing. I believe most modern technology has provided us with nothing but short term instant gratification that will leave us, & those in the future, with nothing but HUGE long term issues.

Anyone who is going to rely on a machine to tell himself all this has already failed at developing self knowledge and an understanding of the psychology of human beings, and abdicating responsibility to a machine is taking dependence upon technology to a new extreme and it destroys all autonomy of thought and all independence in general. If we ever get this far, machines truly will be running and ruling the world. I would never give away this much power to a human being or trust what s/he told me about myself over my own feeling and insight. I certainly wouldn't trust a machine over my own intuition. Erich Fromm would be appalled at this suggested use for technology. I'm appalled at this suggestion. "Open the pod bay doors, please, Hal."

Feeling bad is not necessarily bad. Going through "negative" emotions, even depression is necessary in our personal growth. If some crazy psychologist or programmer will make a tech preventing us to feel bad at all cost, it would slow down our personal growth. Just keep that in mind.

@noobie379

8 жыл бұрын

I think this technology would be better then prescribing about 5% of the population with antidepressants.

this video reminded me of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World plot, in the sense that technology has come to a point where it controls people's way of behaving and thinking through an extremization of the need to maximize "our own good", but it fails miserably because people end up losing lack of predictiveness and lead meaningless and flat lives. People don't need a signalizer of how they feel; what they need is to learn and recognize it themselves. People don't need social medias to find partners; they need to not lose hope in love and give another chance to the next potential candidate. People don't need an app that makes them reflect about who they are; they need to live and learn, do mistakes, in order to evolve and become who they are.

@giemme8711

8 жыл бұрын

+GI EMME “Giemme” and again: how can a technology understand our mood or what's truly going on in our head when we ourselves might not know? even if it did do it, people wouldn't like their privacy being invaded. sometimes hiding the truth from our eyes is the right thing to do. sometimes, even if we're angry or wrong, we don't need someone or in this case something to let us recognize it. technology is rational, humans aren't- forcing a rational evaluation on a inherently irrational response won't work.

I feel that all of This inventions suggested can be replaced with just good education.

@Mj-pf6by

8 жыл бұрын

Good education is empowering, placing the responsibility of attaining all of what is stated in the video, into the hands of the person. The idea in the video is the completely opposite and disempowering, externalizing it all into the hands of some gadget. Really poorly thought out and it reminds of the short story: lookupthenumber.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/he-y-come-on-ou-t-shinichi-hoshi.html

8 жыл бұрын

+Mj123 true my friend

@noaprocas4367

6 жыл бұрын

HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT PERFECT THERE IS LOT OF TIME AND PROPER EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE REQUIReD TO MAKE IT PERFECT

@rpaul9578

6 жыл бұрын

Martín Merayo it's 2018, the world is falling apart, and we still have people who don't believe in global warming or that we should educate young people about sex. Good luck with that one!

Very good ideas...but just because they are so good that i can 100% believe that they will be the next step, i am quite worried. All of those ideas are opposed , to some extend, to human rights such as privacy and ability to choose ones spouse or lover. I get that through technology we will be able to make better decisions in our careers , our love lives, but isn't the fact that we can be wrong what makes the current (old-fashioned) way so important. I don't believe that have a computer make the calls about our lives will make us happy. The exact fact that we make the calls in our lives, we pick a lover, we pick a career path e.t.c. is what makes our lives interesting and fun to live . Having a perfectly programmed life will not make us happier at all. Of course that is how I see things.

@falconJB

8 жыл бұрын

+Giorgos Theo Losing 20 years of your life to a career you hate and a marriage that makes you miserable, is not what makes life fun and interesting.

This sounds like a cool science fiction story if written by someone who really has insight into being human. The technology suddenly stops working and things happen and nobody has any idea what they're doing, and the whole story is people clumsily and awkwardly learning how to feel and how to relate with each other.

i dont want just anyone to know how im feeling. like feeling exited or happy when my annoying neighbor dies, feeling depressed at really any given time, nervous or guilty if i have secrets, ect. It better have a password to unlock it before you can read my emotions.

Phsyco Pass future confirmed

i would go off the grid if that happens.

@Pistolita221

8 жыл бұрын

better start working on that skill set now, then.

@makaiklump5213

8 жыл бұрын

+ayikart "off the grid" will be a term that will be nearly exinct in the future as it is pretty much is right now.

I thought this was one of your best visionary videos. I admire your ability to simplify the theories and philosophies of great thinkers of the past into words and images that appeal to a broad audience. Extrapolating your thoughts onto a potential future might even turn your ideas into a self-fulfilling prophecy. I hope that someday in the distant future, someone will make a video about this very special channel on a platform that people used to call "KZread".... about how TSOL set a shining example of free, rational and forward thinking that will have shaped the course of humanity. Thank you for bringing interesting topics to light!

We already have emotional technology: note-taking app/dictaphone to record a journal for reflection. a webcam and broadband, to confide to a loved one or a therapist. chatting app, to let discovery phase in dating extends beyond the conversations during the dates. I think it's best to keep technology in this area complementary, not substitutional.

Psycho-Pass?

@FelipeSantello

8 жыл бұрын

+007MrYang Reminded me immediately of that Anime! It will be awesome to be in a world that correctly uses that technology. Not as a tool for the government, but a tool for individuals.

@THATCANADIANDUDE682

8 жыл бұрын

+Felipe Magno I just hope anger doesn't become illegal

@FelipeSantello

8 жыл бұрын

THATCANADIANDUDE I just can't really see a future where the government controls what type of emotion is legal or not. Emotions are somatic processes i.e felt sense based processes which you can experience within your body. Emotions are physical and instinctive and are programmed into sub-cortical levels of the brain as stimulus-response patterns Feelings are labels for emotions which are more subjective. Two people can feel the same emotion but label it under different names. Feelings are more abstract than tangible and cannot be measured. We only measure feelings by observing others behavior and then translating it using linguistics. What I imagine these "apps" would do is exactly that, translating our feelings better so we can understand them. Also if your partner has a similar device he/she can be warned before he/she makes judgments or initiate a conversation that may cause stress.

Damn this channel is awesome!

Emotion is part of what makes humans. We make mistakes like choosing the wrong partner, job, miscommunication etc. One may think "If I get a good (match, job whatever) with this I could be saving my self some pain and hardships I might have to endure." Imagine how boring it would be if we had this mentality. All of these mistakes get us closer to where we want to be in life. That is the joy in being human. Being imperfect then finding our way. The answer you are looking for resides nowhere other than in yourself.

@ElectricChaplain

8 жыл бұрын

Except is it worth it? When you have humans making grave errors in their lives and upon others on a massive scale, as we see today, do we need to keep those errors to hold up some made-up ideal of being "human"? Is it not "natural" to want to kill someone out of extreme rage? Whether it is or not, our society doesn't allow it. Laws are a whole set of rules and guidelines to prevent errors that are natural byproducts of the human condition, the Western democratic governments formed in the Enlightenment are predicated on the inherent flaws in Mankind. Just because error is inherent to Mankind doesn't mean it should be allowed if it is detrimental.

@ElectricChaplain

8 жыл бұрын

Also, although only I can answer the questions of my life, why is it wrong to have a piece of technology that can help me find those answers? If someone can choose the right career now and not 10 years later and $100,000 lost, why should they be denied the ability to choose the right path? Our great ability to rationalize the irrational may lead us to believe that the wrong path had benefits when looking in rosy-eyed hindsight, but it doesn't erase the pointless suffering produced at the time. Why don't we just restart civilization for every person, and force them to re-learn the wheel and agriculture and go nowhere by the time they die? Tl;dr future generations don't need to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors if the lessons are passed on.

Guys we need this! As we go down by the road we are more and more emotional. We need support with this.

This Universe sounds like hell.

If you think about it we already have something very similar, devices that tell us what we should feel and what we should think at the reach of a keyword and a click. We just take the phone or the computer and type "How to get over a crush?" and we have answers, looking at a screen "How to find the right person for you?" thousands of answers, telling you what this he or she might be thinking of you and what you should do and act like. Do you realize we are watching a channel where someone exposes their point of view in life to make you think differently and feel differently about how you perceive reality? we watch it through a device, using technology. It's our choice to agree on it or not, the same way we could kick little Socrates watch down the toilet if we wanted. You will say it's not the same, but don't you think that's very close to what School of Life is proposing for the future?

@vanillaessence185

8 жыл бұрын

damn. well said.

@alfonsusumboh5142

7 жыл бұрын

The problem with most people here is that they are AIs designed to understand us and that maybe catastrophic with humans counting on them too much because the path with least effort is usually one to take. And while it seems similar, these ideas are still conjured by humans who can be misinterpreted. What most people and I feel would be beneficial is to enhance our emotional intelligence more so than making a prosthetic

So, Socrates scared me because he crosses into the uncanny valley by being an unhuman friend. The career locator, however, was SO cathartic. The thought that my talents and usefulness might not go unrecognized, or worse - uncared about - would be like a six-ton truckload off my mind and soul.

This will just make people feel worse when they see a watch tell them that they are sad or angry. This stuff will make people anxious about their feelings and eliminates our ability to think for ourselves

Psycho-Pass anyone?

Sounds like this guy has problems in his relationship.

@francispena2818

8 жыл бұрын

sound like you haven't been watching awhile

@SadyhVonSchattig

8 жыл бұрын

+Olivebates so he sounds like a regular human, huh?

@giomarg783

8 жыл бұрын

+Silver Nuke good one xD

One could argue that it's our imperfections like anger, intolerance, irritability, selfishness and so on that make us human, but I'd gladly take that risk. Especially the job finder sounds like of of the best things we might ever invent.

I do not want to be labled. I do not want to know what to do against sadness or panic. I want to be human and live with those emotions.

So, the Sybil System?

@christyme6395

8 жыл бұрын

I think those who produced this video really need to watch that anime.

I don't agree with anything you said, I thought you learned something from Heidegger...

Part of me wants this because it would stop a lot of heartbreak and wasted time but part of me is scared at how much technology could rule our lives

Not to mention looking at this from a neurological perspective. Relying on a device to read others emotions and moods, when we stop using our own skills to do this, therefore stopping the neural networks in our brains from actually working, will erode those networks. If we fail to use a muscle, it atrophies. the same thing happens in the brain. When people loose their eyesight, the part of their brain that is neurally connected to vision is no longer doing that work. So we use a device to read others. I'm pretty certain that it will at least reduce our own abilities and maybe even cripple our ability to learn those skills to read others.

I'll be honest here. I don't like most of these. I can understand the reason behind them but I don't like the idea of technology taking over things like this.

@zanderpyle5114

7 жыл бұрын

Why is a better life for all scary to you?

@heystupidopenthedoor

7 жыл бұрын

Would it really be a better life? Were even one of these technologies to be implimented it would remove something deeply human from us, choice. In the mood reader we lose the ability to come to our own conclusions and choose whether or not to express the thought in our words. The spouse locator removes our ability to choose our partner. The job machine dictates what we do with our lives. The portable Socrates could give advice that is not what we need, but what we want to hear limiting our ability to choose for ourselves what path we wish to take. Whould you really call that a better life?

@IsaacStark6

6 жыл бұрын

[Placeholder] Films am sorry to say. But freewill is an illusion. Your decisions are based on your pass experiences and your current circumstances. The portable Socrates could challenge your assumptions and give you a different perspective. Technology is just a tool. I agree he can take something away. But that is based on the design. Most successful business today were not the first and what they do. Look at Facebook and google.

welcome to the matrix

This is so scary. Behind the machine, there’s always some people with possibly bad intentions. Imagine the potential power these techno will represent. Imagine how much evil this will attract...

Finding yourself is an long and difficult journey, whish will take all your live and never gets easy, but it's worth the pain. You can't take a shortcut, you can't just take a pill or buy a fancy tool to worry less about what you or other people feel. To think that something from outside can help us find ourselves is the first reason why we are so often so unhappy.

While I do enjoy these videos, this is not the future I want for myself or for anyone. Where's the freedom of choice when you have machines dictating what's best for you?

@EpicMRPancake

8 жыл бұрын

+Jorge Figueroa They would be like oracles, providing insight and explaining why, similar to a really talented psychotherapist who knows you very well. You would have the final say, but why would you disagree with something that can provide more informed and effective guidance?

Sounds a bit like the show psycho pass

As a computer engineering student, I'll keep this in mind, and hopefully, at heart.

I can't believe I see only negative comments... This is a beautiful future I would love to live in. To be able to express your self fully clear, know your self better, exploit your passions, that's perfect for my idea of a person. I guess if you are afraid of a machine telling you that you are an idiot, then you'll find this quite negative.

@watsupchava3252

8 жыл бұрын

+Israel Cgutiérrez beautiful, and yet so horrifically meaningless

Too optimistic.

@Asatru55

8 жыл бұрын

+TankT9 Like mentioned in the video, you must not only look at specific areas. In the 1950's there sure were visions about nuclear driven futurama cities. But strictly held in the cultural context of the 1950's. That is because it's far more difficult to imagine the hugely complex implications of a technology for society and how it will change the way we view the world. For example i'm sure plenty of people could imagine instantanous, global communication back then. But how this technology would really change our world i'm sure nobody could have predicted. And you're right. In capitalism we need to sell products. That is exactly why the predictions of the video might be true because in our time we have a huge problem of social disconnect and unhappiness in spite of materialistic abundance. These kind of products would help solve these issues and thus, of course, generate profit.