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Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating “aerobes” inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines — and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. Watch her full TED Talk:

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Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating “aerobes” inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines — and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. Watch her full TED Talk:

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  1. @naturesforce4299

    January 25, 2025 at 11:41 pm

    Make ai go away again!;)

  2. @jumanpatowary4486

    January 26, 2025 at 12:03 am

    A machine, becoming a companion species! Whats wrong with a dog?

    • @25Wineman

      January 26, 2025 at 11:31 am

      Or cat for that matter

  3. @teresaamanfu7408

    January 26, 2025 at 12:21 am

    Nooooo!

  4. @Tatahisthename

    January 26, 2025 at 12:25 am

    No.

  5. @peterlake2184

    January 26, 2025 at 12:47 am

    ????

  6. @nannybannany

    January 26, 2025 at 12:49 am

    Skynet is a little too possible now…

  7. @pweetypoo

    January 26, 2025 at 2:05 am

    Pop them… Then what bin do they go into?

  8. @Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism

    January 26, 2025 at 2:23 am

    So much time an money into this, while people are homeless and going hungry and world wide wars.

    • @lika_s

      January 26, 2025 at 10:33 am

      ++++

  9. @ccgg3913

    January 26, 2025 at 2:33 am

    You smoked weed a bit too much for too long

    • @drakewald123

      January 26, 2025 at 4:52 pm

      No, this is permanent hallucination kind of stuff. Shrooms.

  10. @kmacintosh1448

    January 26, 2025 at 3:23 am

    Can we not just solve hatred world hunger and homelessness?? So sick of this tech sector bullshit

    • @madhatter113

      January 26, 2025 at 4:12 am

      Hatred is hard because it’s a feeling embedded in our code. Homelessness and world hunger are personal not collective or global problems. Poorness does not impose itself on anyone. Poor people choose to be poor and remain poor.

  11. @vultureculture7707

    January 26, 2025 at 4:21 am

    No thanks. We dont need fake creatures with fake “curiosity” when we have children working in factories. Fix civilization before building AI nonsense.

  12. @superiorSam9718

    January 26, 2025 at 4:37 am

    Flying contraceptives ????

  13. @puntrikayuktasevi9550

    January 26, 2025 at 5:15 am

    I’d rather have a rescued pet than those unfriendly-looking balloons

    • @lika_s

      January 26, 2025 at 10:33 am

      yeah that’s true

  14. @JeanJamin

    January 26, 2025 at 7:00 am

    Fascinating …

  15. @mimosa27

    January 26, 2025 at 7:02 am

    I like her

  16. @ilaphroaig

    January 26, 2025 at 7:46 am

    Seen this before. Stolen idea.

  17. @peterweller8583

    January 26, 2025 at 8:36 am

    To be useless and in the way?

  18. @KomodoSoup

    January 26, 2025 at 9:09 am

    Did she say something about “one drop of blood is enough“?

    I know, she may not have said it

    But I felt a sense of déjà vu about her

    • @muzzybeat

      January 26, 2025 at 3:15 pm

      What’s the reference, mate?

    • @KomodoSoup

      January 26, 2025 at 10:22 pm

      @ Elizabeth Holmes

  19. @momtube2888

    January 26, 2025 at 10:20 am

    This is what happens when you have too much money and no real problems to solve

  20. @lindam9618

    January 26, 2025 at 11:15 am

    This is exactly what Stephen Hawking warned us about…the beginning of the extinction of human beings.

  21. @Tremori_A

    January 26, 2025 at 1:15 pm

    This is just Festo tech, with a different balloon shape, this is nearly 10 year old tech.

  22. @tvuser9529

    January 26, 2025 at 2:56 pm

    Pretty! They look alien but elegantly so, like jellyfish and squid.

  23. @thelordcomanderwhocriedwolf

    January 26, 2025 at 4:38 pm

    ♥️

  24. @ashleyburnett7811

    January 26, 2025 at 5:21 pm

    So.. is this what is over New jersey??

  25. @yiaftokal5932

    January 26, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    For what purpose, exactly?
    This is extremely redundant and, quite honestly, terrifying

  26. @scubaseppy

    January 26, 2025 at 11:31 pm

    AI isn’t the problem is the corporations controlling the AI.

  27. @LawIV

    January 26, 2025 at 11:56 pm

    Nope nope nope

  28. @JoeA1974

    January 27, 2025 at 1:38 am

    When they can replicate each other then they will exist in a pseudo life

  29. @jonniestahl772

    January 27, 2025 at 4:55 pm

    Until they showed her I thought it was an auto voice.

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