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Chris Anderson: So Robert spent the last few years think about how weird human behavior is, and how inadequate most of our language trying to explain it is.
Now, for starters, what's totally boring is understanding the motoric aspects of the behavior.
What's hard is understanding the meaning of the behavior, because in some settings, pulling a trigger is an appalling act; in others, it's heroically self-sacrificial.
Instead, every bit of behavior has multiple levels of causality.
So we asked this biological question: what was going on that caused this behavior?
What caused this behavior?
Basically, what we're seeing here is, if you want to understand a behavior, whether it's an appalling one, a wondrous one, or confusedly in between, if you want to understand that, you've got take into account what happened a second before to a million years before, everything in between.
It's complicated, and you'd better be real careful, real cautious before you conclude you know what causes a behavior, especially if it's a behavior you're judging harshly.
And they do one or more of three things: replace existing fossil fuel-based energy generation with clean, renewable sources; reduce consumption through technological efficiency and behavior change; and to biosequester carbon in our plants' biomass and soil through a process we all learn in grade school, the magic of photosynthesis.
They were using vacuum tubes, very narrow, sloppy techniques to get actually binary behavior out of these radio vacuum tubes.
Just because you behave badly doesn't mean the robot is going to copy your behavior.
Now the robot, as I said, doesn't have to copy the behavior.
How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?
What helped me get clean and sober 30 years ago was the catastrophe of my behavior and thinking.
Working with scientists in a chemistry lab in my home city in India, we had created approximate samples of what the air would be like in 2030 if our behavior stays the same.
In order to really accurately model clouds, we'd need to track the behavior of every water droplet and dust grain in the entire atmosphere, and there's no computer powerful enough to do that.
Once you predict something about human behavior, new factors emerge, because conditions are constantly changing.
No, social media is about using our data to predict our future behavior.
Or when necessary, to influence our future behavior so that we act more in accordance with our statistical profiles.
Typically, traditionally, we solve these types of social dilemmas using regulation, so either governments or communities get together, and they decide collectively what kind of outcome they want and what sort of constraints on individual behavior they need to implement.
In order to have a successful robot, my religion is that you have to do a holistic design, where you're designing the software, the hardware and the behavior all at one time, and all these parts really intermesh and cooperate with each other.
So it's half software and half hardware, plus the behavior.
MZ: Like Tina, people were starting to observe their own behavior.
That is exactly the behavior that the technology is built to trigger.
So I went back to the scientists feeling kind of low, and they just laughed at me, and they said, you know, changing people's behavior in such a short time period was ridiculously ambitious, and actually what you've achieved is far beyond what we thought possible.
Reality is so rich, there is so much going on, it's almost impossible to know what drives people's behavior really.
We need to understand these kinds of implicit biases if we are to overcome them and aim for a society in which we treat people fairly, based on their behavior and not on the happenstance of their looks.
And to a certain degree, getting it right can help us solve climate change, because in the end, it's our behavior that seems to be driving the problem.
Needless to say, Jane's in behavior boot camp.
The command-and-control behavior that she was once rewarded for just isn't going to work in a faster-moving, flatter, more digitally interconnected organization.
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