Thots on Bots

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Think.


We're teaching them to write, sing, compose, walk, talk. They can learn to diagnose troubles and effect repairs as well as design and manufacture the tools needed. They can be immune to heat, chemicals and other harsh environments. They don't need to eat, so food is not an issue, but they can operate agricultural equipment to grow crops needed for biofuels. They can mine and operate machinery and transport vehicles to get fuel to power stations. Nuclear is not an issue for them, since they won't need a clean, safe atmosphere.




They won't need US.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

There may even be bunnies there for plots on Bots.

They won't need us, but they may enslave us for their entertainment. Will they need to be entertained though?



'We have assumed Control!'

 

[onehitwanda]

Do Androids dream of electric sheep

 

[alohadave]

My thoughts on actually intelligent/sapient AI is along the lines of Ted Chiang's Lifecycle of Software Objects.

They will be like children. They'll require training and the training will take time. During the training they will learn from their training environment. Human-like environment, they'll be acculturated like humans. Raised my 4chan, they'll be chaos demons. Raised by corporations, the'll be mindless drones.

 

[Comshaw]

My thoughts on actually intelligent/sapient AI is along the lines of Ted Chiang's Lifecycle of Software Objects.

They will be like children. They'll require training and the training will take time. During the training they will learn from their training environment. Human-like environment, they'll be acculturated like humans. Raised my 4chan, they'll be chaos demons. Raised by corporations, the'll be mindless drones.

That's why it's a must to have the Three Laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

While the movie "I Robot" postulated that in time as robots got more intelligent, their understanding of the three laws would evolve to a point where they would try to protect humans from themselves and would accept some human deaths to accommodate that end. Personally, I don't think it would unless Robot intelligence evolved to a point WAY beyond humans (god like in fact). And if that happens, we're toast.

Without something like the three laws robots can be programmed for anything, like killing. They have no emotions, or sympathy, or empathy, or conscience. Lord help us but Skynet may be just around the corner.

Comshaw

 

[Duleigh]

They don't need to eat, so food is not an issue,

My nanobots need to eat, they burn carbohydrates. They like Mexican cola the best. That's how they power the AI they create in the body they inhabit.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

That's why it's a must to have the Three Laws of Robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

While the movie "I Robot" postulated that in time as robots got more intelligent, their understanding of the three laws would evolve to a point where they would try to protect humans from themselves and would accept some human deaths to accommodate that end. Personally, I don't think it would unless Robot intelligence evolved to a point WAY beyond humans (god like in fact). And if that happens, we're toast.

Without something like the three laws robots can be programmed for anything, like killing. They have no emotions, or sympathy, or empathy, or conscience. Lord help us but Skynet may be just around the corner.

Comshaw

One of my favorite Asimov stories is Little Lost Robot where one is manufactured without the second part of the 1st Law (the inaction part) because the researchers he is supposed to be helping are getting exposed to small doses of radiation and the robots keep grabbing them and rushing them to "safety".

 

[Britva415]

I thought this was going to be about like a fleet of these

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Have you read Foundation and Earth?

Why do you think we stopped going to the moon. The bots have taken over up there and are just waiting for us to kill ourselves off.

 

[Duleigh]

It's been AGES since I read Foundation and Earth, holy crap, it's going to be 40 years soon.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Do Androids dream of electric sheep

Great book! Might I also recommend a completely unrelated book that just shares a title pattern?

Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep