Robots and AI do not ‘learn’. There is no individual and independent movement in a computer that senses its own ‘body’. Indeed, robots and AI have no body, no nerve endings, no consciousness or feelings necessary to ‘know’ and ‘understand’ the emotions of another. Yet, this is what is projected by this article (https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/videos/piano-playing-robot-human-emotions/) in Classicfm.

Computers and AI do not ‘sense’ emotions, they read shapes from millions of algorithms from dot points in facial shapes, but it cannot ‘know’ what they mean, because it cannot ‘feel’ what they mean. Therefore, the projection of this propaganda that AI ‘reads’ emotions is not true.

Does the robot get ‘upset’ if I switch it off? Of course not! Does the robot feel pain if I hit its digits? Of course not! I wonder what the robot dreams about?

Without some sense of critical thinking, such articles give the impression that somehow AI is human and has a sense of being. It does not and never can. Just deconstruct the text, much of the language is projection without evidence. One moment the robot is an ‘android artist’ next moment it’s a ‘humanoid robot’. Look at the language, since when are moving digits by a computer ‘incredible abilities’. Look at the nonsense text ‘possibly scoping out what pundits thought of its performance’. What utter nonsense. Of course, it cannot ‘understand’ the audience, it has no body or sense of self/being.

Apart from entertainment value, there is nothing in this story about AI playing a piano, that demonstrates any sense of sentience in AI. Don’t let the mindless spin of Elon Musk seduce you. Just exercise an ounce of critical thinking (https://qz.com/tesla-optimus-robots-remote-controlled-elon-musk-1851674989),

Without embodiment, there is no human ‘being’.

Just read a bit of Damasio, Johnson, Fuchs or any of the following : https://safetyrisk.net/essential-readings-neuroscience-and-the-whole-person/ and you will quickly realise the nonsense projections of this kind of propaganda. Without an embodied understanding of personhood, there is no learning.

All we have to do with this article is ask a one question: what is personhood? It is from here we understand moral philosophy and learning.

Yes, robotics has limited uses in Work Health and Safety but don’t get carried away with the hype and spin (https://www.smithslawyers.com.au/post/ai-and-workplace-safety). Just look at the semiotics of this article and it mimics Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam. There is no ‘creation’ by robotics and there never can be.

Of course, when the ideology of zero creeps in to the myths of safety propaganda (https://www.nsc.org/getmedia/25023964-33a8-4c93-a906-d29702a6d931/wtz-robotics-wp.pdf?srsltid=AfmBOorWquwUdRdz4TN9hfnBm9Y9esPW18nXiQKJRRbmElwiPu2tHBeY) robotics takes on the role of ‘saviour’. Ah, ‘safety saves’.

But don’t worry, the title says ‘zero’ but the discourse is all about ‘reduction’. This is how the propaganda of zero works. The rest is fiction.