A blog about emotional AI and human-like robotics

A critique of mind uploading claims, arguing that copying memories or behavior is not consciousness transfer unless the original subjective experience continues. We also talk about how it could be done in practice.

Cloud delete buttons don't actually delete your data. Here's why Synthia's home robot is built offline and air-gapped—so what's said at home, stays home.

Affordable robotic systems often have access to inexpensive CPU resources. What affordable robots often do not have is a large, expensive, and power-hungry GPU budget. That motivated us to build SARA [Sharded Activation Reduction Architecture]: a distributed inference path that uses multiple CPUs to reduce single-stream token latency.