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Robots: Helpful slaves or killer machines?

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Personally, I'm pretty close to terrified of robots. Especially programmed emotions. WALL-E was a horror film.

What are your thoughts on the future of robots and artificial intelligence?
 

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Robots are awesome. They build stuff for us in factories, the explore the ocean and space for us, they sort mail, defuse bombs, etc. They're extremely useful. Humanoid robots are pretty fascinating too. They teach us so much about the human body and cognitive process that we could never learn without trying to create our own.

I think Strong AI (self-aware general intelligence) is probably impossible to intentionally create, but might be possible as an emergent property of complex neural net style computers. I guess we'll just have to see. Self-aware machine intelligence will probably be fundamentally different than the human mind; it might even be impossible to communicate with it in any meaningful way... ?
 

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I can hardly wait until we have replicants like the nexus series in Blade Runner. I'd love to own many replicants overall. Note: if anyone thinks bio-androids don't count as true robots, you're mostly wrong, in fact, the initial use of the very word "robot" was in regards to the concept of a bio-android, so it'll basically always apply to them considering that's more or less what "robot" was in reference to to begin with, the inorganic ones constituting the colloquial use. I'm not so sure there's anything to fear necessarily, I mean we ourselves are probably going to be the robots by the time robots pose a threat to us i.e. to say we'll be cyborgs. Assistive limb, predator drones, industrial arms, nano bots, YouTube- Robot Violinist the androids that plays violin, tachicomas etc, they all excite me, I love robots. Even if a robot empire conquers the earth, I don't feel I'd have any significantly different opinions about it happening than if some group of humans do, if anything I think I'd prefer the robots to do so over most humans i.e. I'd rather see robots replace the vast majority of humans because most people are mindless, sadistic zombies anyway.
 

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Robots are what they are made to do. I don't see any reason to be scared about robots unless there is a way to program free will.

which is exactly what I'm afraid of...:phear:
 

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Oh no. We may be able to doom ourselves with biology soon, but the robot plague is upon us now. The faithful hacks at The Register have been tracking this for years in a series they call Rise of the Machines.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/science/rotm/

Recent articles include the toilet that ate the French guy's arm, exploding refrigerators in South Africa, combat bots in Iraq turning on their operators, and a village in Italy where appliances randomly burst into flames.
 

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Mostly I think if we make robots meant to act like humans, they will realize our inadequacies and deem it better for the planet if we cease to exist, thereby destroying all mankind.

Maybe I've been watching too many robot movies...
 
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