### The text explores the evolution of machines from passive tools to active agents, focusing on the issues of goal setting, evolutionary mechanisms and the transformation of the human-machine relationship. --- ### Theme Selection ![[01_selekce_temat.png]] --- ### Structure ![[03_vysledna_struktura.png]] --- ## **Context** **Machines Among Us** - **Machine-Age → Human and Machine** - How the paradigm of the relationship between humans and technology is changing - **Example:** _Manifesto of Machinism_ - Relevance of the issue - **Important moment in development** - Questioning human concepts - Redefining definitions - New considerations of what it means to be human --- ## **Transformation** **From Tools to Actors** - Transition from perceiving machines as passive tools to active agents initiating their own behavior - **"Agency"** - Why is it relevant? --- ## **Alignment** **Goal Problem** - The problem of setting (_alignment_) goals for autonomous systems - How to ensure that machine agents fulfill the intentions of their creators - The difficulty of precisely defining goals and behavior rules to prevent undesirable, harmful consequences - **External references:** - Stuart Russell, Nick Bostrom - _Golem_ - _Maximizer_ --- ## **Evolution** **Mechanisms by which autonomous systems acquire the ability to learn, adapt, and develop new behavior strategies** - **Evolutionary algorithms** - **Adaptation** - Ability to learn - Experience, memory - **External references:** - Examples of self-learning systems - RL (Reinforcement Learning), Feedback --- ## **Embodiment** **Development of machines → Embodied agents** - **Physical form** - Transition from purely computational algorithms to their physical realization - Physically embodied systems (_embodied agents_) - **Bridges:** - _"And what happens when these computational algorithms gain a physical form?"_ - _"We perceive the world around us, and ourselves within it, with, through, and because of our living bodies."_ --- ## **Reflection** **Open End – New Questions** - Reflections and considerations of new questions associated with the development of autonomous machines and their connection to physical reality - **Uncanny Valley** - Empathy towards machines - Death → Mortal body of the machine - New kind **Future:** - It will also develop according to the setting of goals and behavior in my installation...