Mechanical humans, or “Androids”, have been a dream made up in the minds of science fiction lovers since for over 100 years. We have a fascination with machines that are able to portray human emotion, thinking, and logic. However, I have a proposition to those who think having a robot would be cool: Fear the robot.
A study was recently published that explores why as we get closer to creating artificial life, the more creeped out humans get. The hypothesis by the researcher states: “A robot that's too human-like can veer into unsettling territory, tripping the same psychological alarms associated with a dead or unhealthy human. This theory is dead on. A mechanical arm that picks up a car on an assembly line, and I'm totally cool. But when I see that robo girl in the video below, it looks like a zombie deserving of a bullet.
Here is a video of one of the latest and “most human” human robot to date.
People see this as a “giant leap” foreword into the future, but I think this is a huge misstep. Why waste all this time on building artificial life, when we already have our hands full with “real life”. Robots will not bring about any sort of solutions to our world's problems. If anything they will merely make things worse. The more that we mechanize our world, the lazier we become, the more unskilled we become, and the more useless we become. Our jobs and our work will be replaced by machine, as they already have.
Just for the record, if anything like this shows up on my property, its getting a bullet to the CPU courtesy of the human race. Damn the robots.
So do you think robots are another step foreword for mankind? Or two steps back? You decide.
If you're going to build a Robot, better make it 2/3rds the size of a human. Easier to stop if it turns on us.......
ReplyDeleteI agree with realistic robots looking too creepy, sort of like how "too real" the monkeys look on the remake of "Planet of the Apes". Or that one chimp a few years back that someone taught to walk upright and smoke cigarettes. Now... don't get me wrong, dag smoking monkeys are cool, but walking upright! sheesh!
ReplyDeleteI'm very much pro monkey smoking...just on all fours ;)
ReplyDeleteNice planet of the apes reference!
but Travis, you're forgetting the fact that people are going to keep getting fatter and lazier to the point where they're incapable of labor...something has to keep up the work. Some recommended viewings on where we're headed:
ReplyDeleteWALL*E, Idiocracy, Moon, 2001, and Travis' favorite I, Robot.
Kevin
If you are going to make a chick robot why not bigger cans? why make her blink? And a woman that does everything you ask instantly without back talk? I'm waiting for the flaw and I'm not seeing it.
ReplyDeletewhat is wrong with Robots doing all the work? then we won't need money and if we don't need money then we don't need work... so Robots are very good things.
ReplyDeleteWe would have free time to hang out with friends and family all day everyday and travel expense free. That's why I'm buying stock in Skynet what could go wrong?
I feel like AI is just moving us closer and closer towards the Matrix...and it scares me.
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