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| WTF?!?! I wish a robot would... |
okay, so we all have our favorite tired sci-fi tropes
- Newly self-aware and rebellious robots beat up the silly scientists before turning their steely gaze on the outside world.
- Under-appreciated genius uses robots to exact revenge against the unsuspecting fools who underestimated him (extra awesome if it involves unrequited love).
- Sleezy scientist pits robots against humans in a misguided attempt to test the powers of his creations.
(whose first law of robotics doesn't allow a robot to harm a human being) would probably not approve, but the researchers suggest it's necessary to create robots that CAN'T hurt humans (even by accident), not just to program them not to... To read the full article on New Scientist's website, click here. Hopefully, a few wrongs will make a right, huh? Still feeling Robophobic? click here for more...
holla!
-samax.
7 comments:
One more step closer to saving Ripley off of unstable platforms
...or Skynet launching the first salvo. Time will tell.
Yup. Don't any of these roboticists watch movies or read books? Sheesh.
What I do find interesting about that 'interrogation' image is that the robots have those tentacle arms. Really big in the 30s and 40s, but you don't see it much anymore.
it's all fun until the robot decides that strategic killing serves its concept of the greater good (like both the good and bad robot in "I, Robot")
I like how Masamune Shirow tackled this one in his manga, "ghost in the Shell".
word. Definitely lots of reasons to like Ghost in the Shell!
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