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theory A:Well, robots will never have full artificial intelligence.Learning artificial intelligence is growing, but still theres no point...Its easier to program a robot to do 1 thing than to have it learn 100 things...Plus the body/chassis can be optimized for 1 operation.
I think there is a world market for about five computers
And lastly, some of the humans running around don't quite earn the label of intelligent:
Computers already control the world (literally), and we let them.
Robots will take over the world.Computers already control the world (literally), and we let them.And we all are better off with them, too.It won't be different with robots Just no lasers, explosions, or time traveling Arnolds . . . because machines are built to serve.
Quotetheory A:Well, robots will never have full artificial intelligence.Learning artificial intelligence is growing, but still theres no point...Its easier to program a robot to do 1 thing than to have it learn 100 things...Plus the body/chassis can be optimized for 1 operation.Why can't a robot have full artificial intelligence? Just because it seems out of reach now and unnecessary, doesn't mean it will always be that way. For example:QuoteI think there is a world market for about five computersWhile I know this quote isn't verifiable as to have actually been said by Thomas J. Watson, a former president of IBM, technology has been underestimated time and again.As for optimizing a chassis for only one operation, many designs are chosen for their flexibility. You don't always have to be the best at something to succeed. For example, humans are not the fastest runners, not the best climbers, not the best swimmers, etc. Yet we have become extremely successful (in a proliferation of the species sense) and have continuously extended our habitat beyond its limitations.
Quote from: Admin on September 26, 2010, 11:23:28 AMComputers already control the world (literally), and we let them.I saw a documentary on this once. It was about virtual weapons and how we could be destroyed by a cyber attack. Its based on attacking the computers that control the country's electricity.
Also, though, who is to say that these artificial robots would take over the world? Who's to say we can't allow our thinking robots to be compassionate and coexist with us? Robots are already helping us out in fantastical ways. They are saving lives, exploring the stars...thinking robots may do this a little differently and maybe make things more complicated--which is why I still think there will always be a need for conventional robots too. I'm more interested in practical compassion that is universal in the world rather than robots that hate us and try to kill us all as they do in Hollywood movies. Remember that Hollywood shapes our way of thinking when it comes to things like Extraterrestrials or robots dominating humanity heartlessly, because we've never had to deal with these things in reality. I like to think that is something is intelligent it has a capacity for compassion to a degree. When it comes to this, I like to think about how the Native American were wrongly thought to be savage, wildmen by eastern civilizations. This was a sensationalized, romanticized, way of thought and it led to gruesome results. The way I see it, we're teaching ourselves to hate ETs and artificial intelligent robots by portraying them as heartless and emotionless beings in our movies. This does not have to be the case, and quite frankly I doubt it will ever be completely the case as it is in these sci-fi movies.
Quote from: Hawaii00000 on September 26, 2010, 05:45:13 PMQuote from: Admin on September 26, 2010, 11:23:28 AMComputers already control the world (literally), and we let them.I saw a documentary on this once. It was about virtual weapons and how we could be destroyed by a cyber attack. Its based on attacking the computers that control the country's electricity.You mean this? http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/09/26/1736224/Stuxnet-Infects-30000-Industrial-Computers-In-Iran
[...] the fairly widespread belief that animals are less than people.
I see them as more of a cautionary tale of "don't take those that work for you for granted". The same applies to robots as seen in RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots) or when dealing with your wife (or husband, brother, friend, whatever). Anyone with any form of intelligence can only take so much mistreatment, abuse, or sometimes even repeated mild neglect before it has some noticeable affect on their attitude. This is obvious with people, but it's easier for us to make excuses to think of other things as less than ourselves. This is evidenced by everything from slavery, racism, sexism, etc. to even the fairly widespread belief that animals are less than people./rant
I also really think robots will not take over.It's just can't happen partly because they're built to serve and also because they aren't able to do everything by themselves.Duh!
Any (thinking) species will view lower orders as expendable. Even vegetarians...
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