#nurse robot type t (vocal)

[webwanwan]

robobuddies

[proseka-chibi-edits]

OH MY GOD CAN YOU PLS DO NURSE ROBOT TYPE T I WUOULD EXPLODE AND DIE

Thank you for requesting :D

[mspaint-flower]

https://youtu.be/nu3Eg2O4vzs

did you hear this flower song

YEAH I HAVE AHKDJSHDSJFHKEHKEJKMGE it's been in my playlist for god knows how long ngl. also that cover is a banger

[colorpicking-pride]

lesbian flag picked from nurse robot type t

[sunontheceiling]

recitation／ナースロボ＿タイプT

recitation feat. nurse robot type T by CULT P

『 recitation 』

To the gentleness like a vein of water,

I was caressed by the light space

A dreamy day

Mimics the heavenly realm well

Wiping away the daily melancholy,

Like the end of life

It's like the end of life, like an unimaginable happiness

But for some reason, I can't help but look toward the end

I can't help but look toward the end

Just breathing in the voice, the sun's rays enter the room,

Even “Goodnight" is like caffeine

The midnight sun is so mysterious,

It enveloped our bodies

Untouchable, transparent

I want to cherish it, I want to destroy it

Like your immaturity, your scarcity

I was thinking about that, and we were swallowed up and engulfed

Sunlight enters just by breathing in your voice,

Even “Goodnight" is like caffeine

The midnight sun is so mysterious,

It enveloped our bodies

Untouchable, transparent

I want to cherish it, I want to destroy it

Like your immaturity, your scarcity

I was thinking about that, and we were swallowed up and engulfed

[utau-bowl]

5 new voices were added to VOICEVOX today, including two that are also available for UTAU! Genbu VOICEVOX has also been updated with new expressions.

[ Download VOICEVOX ]

[stoweboyd]

Pew releases AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

It's been quite a few days.

The Pew Research Internet Center released their AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs report this week, where we were asked this question:

The economic impact of robotic advances and AI---Self-driving cars, intelligent digital agents that can act for you, and robots are advancing rapidly. Will networked, automated, artificial intelligence (AI) applications and robotic devices have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025?

I was prominently quoted on the first page:

The full quote is this:

Stowe Boyd, lead researcher at GigaOM Research, said, "As just one aspect of the rise of robots and AI, widespread use of autonomous cars and trucks will be the immediate end of taxi drivers and truck drivers; truck driver is the number-one occupation for men in the U.S.. Just as importantly, autonomous cars will radically decrease car ownership, which will impact the automotive industry. Perhaps 70% of cars in urban areas would go away. Autonomous robots and systems could impact up to 50% of jobs, according to recent analysis by Frey and Osborne at Oxford, leaving only jobs that require the 'application of heuristics' or creativity...An increasing proportion of the world's population will be outside of the world of work---either living on the dole, or benefiting from the dramatically decreased costs of goods to eke out a subsistence lifestyle. The central question of 2025 will be: What are people for in a world that does not need their labor, and where only a minority are needed to guide the 'bot-based economy?"

I've been interviewed several times about the report --- by the AP, various newspapers, and others --- and its been quoted all over, as in the NY Times, Fortune, and Forbes. Here's an example from CIO:

Steve Rosenbush, The Morning Download: Facebook,Yahoo Developing New Models for Data Protection

AI, robotics, and the future of jobs. With Watson angling for the corner office, no job is safe from automation. Are the robots coming to take our jobs? The Pew Research Center recently asked nearly 2,000 technologists what the employment landscape will look like over the next decade, as artificial intelligence and robotics continue to gain ground. The experts, who included CEOs, tech journalists, Internet pioneers and researchers at tech vendors, are divided almost 50-50 on whether AI applications and robots will displace more jobs than they create. Some foresee more income inequality and more blue and white-collar displacement. "The central question of 2025 will be: What are people for in a world that does not need their labor, and where only a minority are needed to guide the 'bot-based economy?" wonders Stow Boyd [sic], lead researcher at GigaOM research.  Others are more optimistic, citing humanity's ability to bounce back. "Technology will continue to disrupt jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created," said Jonathan Grudin, principal researcher for Microsoft MSFT -0.30% Corp. So the short answer is that the jury's still out on whether we're heading towards a breakdown in social order or a new era of techno-based entrepreneurship. Someone should ask Watson what it thinks.

Interesting that the business publications, like Forbes and Fortune, were more interested in my predictions about robot sex partners than the impacts on work:

Robotic sex partners will be a commonplace, although the source of scorn and division, the way that critics today bemoan selfies as an indicator of all that's wrong with the world.

One thing that has been made clear in the fallout since the report was published: there is a sizable contingent who --- like me --- are convinced that increasing automation will lead to a large reduction in employment, and there appears to be an equally vocal group that believe that either new work will arise that only people can do or governmental controls will be put in place so that people will be employed whether we need them to be or not.

The authors of the report, Aaron Smith and Janna Anderson, characterized the various positions of the hopeful (52%) and the concerned (48%):

Key themes: reasons to be hopeful

Advances in technology may displace certain types of work, but historically they have been a net creator of jobs.

We will adapt to these changes by inventing entirely new types of work, and by taking advantage of uniquely human capabilities.

Technology will free us from day-to-day drudgery, and allow us to define our relationship with "work" in a more positive and socially beneficial way.

Ultimately, we as a society control our own destiny through the choices we make.

Key themes: reasons to be concerned

Impacts from automation have thus far impacted mostly blue-collar employment; the coming wave of innovation threatens to upend white-collar work as well.

Certain highly-skilled workers will succeed wildly in this new environment---but far more may be displaced into lower paying service industry jobs at best, or permanent unemployment at worst.

Our educational system is not adequately preparing us for work of the future, and our political and economic institutions are poorly equipped to handle these hard choices.

I've been asked by Aaron to appear at the Pivot Conference this October to speak on this theme.

At the time that the telephone switch was being developed, projections showed that all the women in America would have to be telephone operators in the next 20 years to handle the growth of telephone use. Now the number of telephone operators is functionally zero. Yes, those workers transitioned from that work to other occupations. If 85% of other occupations are either eliminated or disrupted out of existence, and all that remains is a narrow suite of domains where AI and robots can't play because of insufficient creativity or human emotion --- like improvisational jazz, playing Go, or nursing the sick --- we will hit a wall.

It's hard to imagine that our economy can respond to this challenge as quickly as our technologies can make it a reality. We're still living in a world where women are paid 87¢ for every $1 that men make, and women have been in the workforce for a hundred years. Culture is slow but technology's fast.

I tweeted earlier this week:

Or, how will unemployed people eat? The level of unemployment we have now is the new normal, not temporary @mertinsantos @pewresearch

--- Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd) August 6, 2014

[sunontheceiling]

Morphine／ナースロボ＿タイプT ENG TL

Morphine feat. Nurse Robot Type T by CULT P

I feel like the person I am in my dream

Isn’t my real self

When I wake up again

I’m still asleep

The scent of sweet tea leaves

A lingering loneliness

Like lip gloss

On a glamorous night

On the taste buds where anemone blooms

A moist, shallow dream 

A nap like a novel 

Face paint crumbles away

A dazzling future with morphine 

A night lit by mercury lamps 

Wrists stained with perfume 

Bare skin exposed to newspaper

A mouse whose haggardness is obvious

The sufferer* who indulged too much

The blue spring left behind because I love it

July passes again

I feel like the person I am in my dream

Isn’t my real self

Waking up again

I’m still sleeping

TL notes: クランケ is a word for a patient or someone suffering from a kind of illness