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Would you date a robot?

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  • #52
    Capt'n Midnight
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Poll needs a "It's too bad she won't live. Then again, who does!" option. RIP Rutger Hauer. :D

    Batty: Questions... Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?




    It's likely that any company selling such robots would be a prime target for those wishing to steal their client list for the purposes of blackmail.


    What if the robot gets a virus ?
    Ransomware isn't cheap.
    But in a "honest amongst thieves" thing it's in their best interests to unlock stuff when the victim pays.

    Speaking of which already live in a world where even tractors are locked down to prevent third parties repairing them.
    "If a farmer bought the tractor, he should be able to do whatever he wants with it," Kevin Kenney, a farmer and right-to-repair advocate in Nebraska, told me. "You want to replace a transmission and you take it to an independent mechanic—he can put in the new transmission but the tractor can't drive out of the shop. Deere charges $230, plus $130 an hour for a technician to drive out and plug a connector into their USB port to authorize the part."


  • #53
    mvl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    We'll stop calling them robots, we'll start calling them synthetic humans, it'll be grand :)
    There is an issue though: if we push for gendered humanoid robots, guess they'd need to balanced, male and female.

    - Was reading how there is a prevalence for female gendered as is ...(one reason being they would be perceived as less threatening)


  • #54
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    No thanks, but it could be of benefit to those who can't form lasting relationships either due to chronic illness or some kind of disability, so I can see how that side of the synthetic industry could potentially be a boon for that demographic. A lot of money could and will be made.

    However, at the same time human emotions and connections are extremely complex. Make no mistake AI is only going to become more and more advanced in the centuries to come and will be an entity we will have to share a living space with.

    That's what is so fascinating about Blade Runner and AI; what are the ethics of artificial life and what rights should/would they/it have?


  • #55
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    No thanks, but it could be of benefit to those who can't form lasting relationships either due to chronic illness or some kind of disability, so I can see how that side of the synthetic industry could potentially be a boon for that demographic. A lot of money could and will be made.

    However, at the same time human emotions and connections are extremely complex. Make no mistake AI is only going to become more and more advanced in the centuries to come and will be an entity we will have to share a living space with.

    That's what is so fascinating about Blade Runner and AI; what are the ethics of artificial life and what rights should/would they/it have?

    If people can get great comfort from talking to dogs it's possible an AI could one day be of some comfort. The shows humans, Westworld and Battlestar Gallactica all touch on the question of wheter or not its ok to abuse a robot.. id say in about 500 years we will be asking the question for real


  • #56
    Tammy!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭Tammy!


    As soon as they make them realistic enough that you can't tell and there's no feeling of uncanny valley, we're all screwed. :)


  • #57
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    That's what is so fascinating about Blade Runner and AI; what are the ethics of artificial life and what rights should/would they/it have?
    The big issue with freeing the slaves was the capital investment in them.

    Many slave owners were financially compensated for not being able to resell them.


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