Do you find watching the robotic Olympics unsettling
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ColinJ
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Indeed!
Having one that can run faster than any human is scary enough, but wait until some psycho hacker adds the command "... and kill any human that gets in your way"!!!
presta
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bonzobanana
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Maybe its the rule of the universe, any civilization that creates technology will eventually make robots and AI that destroys that civilization. We are in a environmental disaster and also about to commit huge resources into building robots and AI it just seems madness. We need to get back to simpler lives really and the ideal transport method is bicycles.
DRM
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I wouldn't be so sure about that, have a read of the below, it's very scary
https://news.sky.com/story/ai-is-de...becoming-hard-to-measure-experts-say-13512068
Once a Wheeler
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Intriguing rather than unsettling. Remember that early cars were called horseless carriages because it was easier to describe the new technology in terms of what people already knew. But not just horses were replaced: the internal combustion engine went on to power electricity generating stations and quarter-million ton ocean tankers as well. The real question is what follows the human look-alike? When all those manual jobs are mechanized, what will be the equivalent of the Ford production line, the telephone system, the combined harvester and all the other paraphernalia of the post horse world? If you can make a good guess — invest in it!
Parading, martial arts, moments saved packing a dishwasher... a lot's being spent on development so where are the convincing use cases? Soon they'll have a horse that's faster and cheaper to run than a real horse, which is what we wanted when the car was born. We already have weapons so effective we dare not use them, and more Soft Machines than we know what to do with. You don't replace humans, you merely spread the cost of keeping them alive.
What I'm getting at is that superhuman capabilities may be welcome but a paradigm shift is usually the best way to exploit them. Evolution has made us so effective within the limitations of our form factor that it must be rare to have a genuine need that doesn't entail changing the form too. Could like-for-like humanoid development be built on an unworkable economic model?
What I'm getting at is that superhuman capabilities may be welcome but a paradigm shift is usually the best way to exploit them. Evolution has made us so effective within the limitations of our form factor that it must be rare to have a genuine need that doesn't entail changing the form too. Could like-for-like humanoid development be built on an unworkable economic model?
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Punkawallah
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You realise you have used the word ‘just’, right.
Joey Shabadoo
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The first person to be killed by a sex robot has already been born. Just sayin'
Animo
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Yeah but I'll be going out with a smile on my face
Seevio
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just been watching a clip on the Beeb... there's 666 teams competing.
661 of which are Chinese!
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