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Are we Approaching a Robot Uprising?
Posted by Stillthinking • 3/20/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Just For Fun, robot apocalypse, science fiction
The Japanese have announced amazing advances in artificial intelligence including pollution eating robot fish and a robot woman (who resembles an Asian Schoolgirl much to the delight of traveling businessmen everywhere).
www.physorg.com/news156406932.html
Is SkyNet and a Robot Apocalypse far behind?
I know we have had the Zombie thread and the Armageddon preparedness thread.
I would like to know, what is the greater threat to the survival of mankind: disembodied Artificial Intelligence (HAL), Cyborgs (Battlestar Galactica) or Androids (Terminator, Blade Runner).
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I think we seem to following the Terminator model of Robot Armageddon. The robot fish that eat pollution. These fish will one day decide that people are the enemy of the earth and try to wipe us out.
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Double post
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We'll see... I keep waiting for the computerized voice at the grocery store, who rings up my order, to begin a critique of some of my purchases...
"Are you really going to eat Twinkies? Do you know what they're made of?... And why aren't there more fresh vegetables in this cart?"
But right now she just pronounces "vidalia onions" as "vidaria." Which always makes me laugh.-
The day is coming sooner than you think. There are already programs that send scolding text messages to your cell phone to warn you not to eat those fries.
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Well, now I'm really glad I don't have a cell phone. Those fries police can just stay the heck away! Fries are my nirvana!
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Maybe limiting technology's access into our lives is the answer. Maybe the only way the robots can find us to destroy us is going to be through our cell phones.
TSR, Is it bad that everytime I read one of your comments, you sound exactly like Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer? -
OMG, they announce everything you buy?! I'm so not shopping at that store. I don't see a need for total strangers to know the variety of apple or more personal product that I purchase on any given shopping expedition. -
StillThinking- At least you didn't say Wesley.
Legbamel- Yes, the Supermarket Computer Lady says "Weigh your... Vidaria onions.... $2.99...."
"Put your... Vidaria onions... In the bag."
She's got a few grammar problems, and pauses inappropriately, but she and I usually get along pretty well. -
That's why I don't buy personal products in the self-check out line. I do not need everyone to know about my jumbo pack tampon purchase or the liter of Jack Daniels.
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Or? Ri-i-i-ght.
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as long as I have Data on my side I'll feel safe
course my coffee maker was looking at me a little funny this morning and I'm pretty sure I heard it whispering to the microwave when I left the room. -
seriously though, we already rely on our machines, they pretty much control us as is.
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We do rely on the machines to control our food, money, indoor climate.
Yes, the microwave and coffee machine will one day talk to one another. In the "smart house", they speak to one another to coordinate making breakfast.
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Polybore sees you your robot fish and robot schoolgirl and raises you robot with a rats brain. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7559150.stm
It's a cute little fella, not like you would know it had the brain of a rat at all.-
This points us along the Cyborg-Cylon (Battlestar Galactica) direction of Robot Armageddon.
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My sat nav sounds like HAL I am seriously considering getting another one I keep expecting him to tell me do a U turn on the motorway because I have upset him in some way.-
If you don't stop that, we are turning this car around. Right now!
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Don't worry I'm smash the bad robots when the rise up LOL -
I saw that robot on the news! Until they get her (or how about a HIM?) to clean my toilet and make my dinner, I have no interest!
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There is a boy version too. The Japanese claim that these robots are for helping the elderly with basic household tasks. Considering what they designed her to look like (a living anime doll), I get the impression that they also had less "wholesome" tasks in mind eventually.
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I think we need to ask ourselves the big question: can there be robot zombies?
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Cyborg zombies would be very, very scary because people zombies are really stupid and rot to pieces, eventually. It's just a question of hiding long enough to outlast them. But if they had stainless steel bones and non-biodegradable plastic tubing...yikes!
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And what if we give robots the capacity to fall in love?-
Like in the movie AI? The little robot boy who was abandoned by his human mother and obsessively pursued her through time? That movie freaked me out and I couldn't stop crying for the little robot boy.
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one of my favorite TNG episodes is when Data's emotion chip is activated and he is able to experience human emotions.
AI was a good movie, I cried too..
"Do not speak the seven-word activation code unless you mean it" -
It was wrenching. I was so unsettled by the ending. I can't even imagine to watch a loved one die and then spend the rest of eternity alone. Ahhhh.
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So if robots are given the capacity to love, won't their loyalties remain as divided as human's loyalties are? Would they be able to cohesively rise up against humans? Our failures are often due to our being forced to sort out what often will not accept sorting. So will they. And a revolution divided against itself will not succeed.
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One day we just might be obsolete LOL-
Sure. A lot of us will be cyborgs before we know it. Not a bad way to change species, ya know?
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I blame the Daleks.-
I am totally hooked on Doctor Who and have been streaming it on Netflix. Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!
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I thought that's why Microsoft released Vista. Bill Gates knew it would slow the robot uprising, if not crash it altogether (ixnay on inuxlay).-
HAHAHAHAHA!
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We could be with the new "Ternimator Salvation" movie coming out?
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Considering how much time most of us are already plugged into machines, I think we are more like to become Borg than have a Terminator overthrow.-
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Hmmm, the Borg have a zombie aspect to it. The Borg combine both robot uprising and zombie uprising into one.
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eat your brains vs. digitize your brains
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But, but ... a digital brain will last longer!
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and I wouldn't need my cell phone anymore
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We would all be plugged into one central Borg and instantly know the thoughts of everyone else. I think we already have this. It is called Twitter.
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If Twitter is involved, I'll have to pass on the assimilation.
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Don't you want to know that I eat my cheerios with sliced banana and that I think American Idol rocks?
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Not if you keep spelling things right. You need to leave out some letters (remember there's a limit!).
Something like omg cheerios n bananas r gr8 and AI rox! lol would be okay. -
you get 150 letters, more than enough to use proper spelling.
I have been ranting on Twitter about conservative reaction to Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination and no web speak or txt speak made an appearance. -
140, actually
But the Borg would need to code their messages so humans can't understand them! -
011100011110011010101111000000111
I just said I like chocolate milk in Borg. -
If that's correct and you know that from memory, you are one of them already!
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Resistance is futile, remember?
Mwahahahahahahahaha! -
Oh, right!
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I hope so. I have all these guns, but no uprisings to quell.-
Guns are useless against the Borg.
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lies!
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I agree-
ur doin it rite
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thanks
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Truthfully, I don't believe that our planet has the resources to sustain purely mechanical lifeforms. I believe that our biological lifeforms as they exist now are the most sensible and sustainable biological structures that can exist on this planet. -
If a robot (terminator) "apocalypse" were to happen, in that event we wouldn't have a damn thing to do about it. -
Larrybrains sees your robot fish, your schoolgirl robot, and rat brain robot and raises you with a big dog.
youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM
Also, I have written a story in a blog post that sort of relates to this particular subject.
neonjelloevangelist.blogspot.com/2009/05/robot-saga.html
Robots will eventually kill all of us and take over the world. It is inevitable.
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