Female Robot Wants a Family, Then to Destroy Humanity

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Damnit science... can't we all just agree murdering eachother in cold blood is better than creating a robotic enemy to fight?

 

[Strazdas]

So why instead of making good efficient robots are they trying to replicate humans of all things? I wish my conciuosness could be downloaded to a robot, but i would not want it to just be another human replication.

Removing the context of Blade Runner or any other Sci-Fi genre.

I never understood the purpose of making Robots that look nearly exact like Humans?

I mean what purpose does it serve, what will humanity gain making Robots that look exactly like us?

sexbots. all the sexbots. Just think of all the unemployment as prostitutes are pushed out of business. we must destroy robots now!

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

So why instead of making good efficient robots are they trying to replicate humans of all things? I wish my conciuosness could be downloaded to a robot, but i would not want it to just be another human replication.

Removing the context of Blade Runner or any other Sci-Fi genre.

I never understood the purpose of making Robots that look nearly exact like Humans?

I mean what purpose does it serve, what will humanity gain making Robots that look exactly like us?

sexbots. all the sexbots. Just think of all the unemployment as prostitutes are pushed out of business. we must destroy robots now!

What makes sexbots any different compared to just wanking to "fanart"

 

[Strazdas]

sexbots. all the sexbots. Just think of all the unemployment as prostitutes are pushed out of business. we must destroy robots now!

What makes sexbots any different compared to just wanking to "fanart"[/quote]
Physical contact. Fanart cannot touch you. Sexbots can.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Spoiler: That thing is fucking terrifying.

Also, "hot robot"? Really?!?

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I always find these things suspicious. These responses are so articulate, so long, that I can't imagine they weren't pre-programmed entirely. In which case, there's no self-determination happening, no real choice being made - and you're left with a regular machine carrying out its programmed directives. It's a bit weird to see robotics specialists gush over stuff like this when we're still leagues and bounds away from Roy Batty or Nick Valentine.

Futurists like Ray Kurzweil tend to say we're decades away from a conscious android, but I'm much more pessimistic. I'd give it a century at the very least. AI research isn't that old, and we're essentially trying to reproduce something that's nuanced and extremely complex - the human mind. An AI mastering Go doesn't make it humanlike; you don't need much in the way of sapience to master Go. High-functioning autistic people can play a reasonable game of Go while being unable to process all of an average day's human interactions.

I'll be impressed on the day one of these androids breaks free from its programmers' intended showreel and does something that's actually emergent. Not before.

I really hope you're right, cause this kind of shit worries me when I think about it. Cause what are the chances we create something like this in our own image and it turns out to be kind?

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Might

 

[Combustion Kevin]

Good lord, that thing is damn creepy. Why can't they ever get these things to smile without looking like a serial killer? It's that toothy grin and those wide, soulless eyes every time.

Are you kidding me, even actual human beings on advertisement posters often fail in this regard.
They look like serial killers indeed, or like they're being told to smile at gunpoint.

 

[Raika]

Why am I reminded of that episode of The Next Generation where a random crew member falls in love with Data?

 

[LadyMint]

Maybe it's just me but even if I concentrate on just her face, it still looks completely fake and recognizable as a machine and not a person. Her lower eyelid kept shaking unrealistically when she talked, as if it wasn't fully connected to her face. Her eyebrows also move too much while she's talking. Usually when people move their eyebrows while they're talking, there's an inflection involved, or a subconscious effort to punctuate a word or statement. It's not just something we do at random, like some puppet.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

You are all foolish fools! The robot has lulled you in to a false sense of security with it's overly pronounced demonstration. Oh yes, mark my words, it is plotting and scheming at this very moment. Who knows what depraved acts it is concocting at this very moment. I will not be caught unawares!

 

[FalloutJack]

I don't think this constitutes proper programmin if it fails the 'Don't destroy humanity' test.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

sexbots. all the sexbots. Just think of all the unemployment as prostitutes are pushed out of business. we must destroy robots now!

What makes sexbots any different compared to just wanking to "fanart"

Physical contact. Fanart cannot touch you. Sexbots can.[/quote]

Still not the same as sticking it in a real organic hole.

 

[Strazdas]

Physical contact. Fanart cannot touch you. Sexbots can.

Still not the same as sticking it in a real organic hole.

True, but you cant have "real organic hole" in your cupboard and do with it whatever/whenever you want.

 

[Cycloptomese]

Physical contact. Fanart cannot touch you. Sexbots can.

Still not the same as sticking it in a real organic hole.

True, but you cant have "real organic hole" in your cupboard and do with it whatever/whenever you want.

I beg to differ.

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Seriously though, it looks like we've got a ways to go before the inevitable robot apocalypse. I'd rather have a zombie apocalypse. I just feel like my chances would be better.

 

[shrekfan246]

Still not the same as sticking it in a real organic hole.

Neither is a Fleshlight; they still sell.

OT: Of course, all of these jokes people make about robots destroying humanity are really going to come flying back in our faces if robots ever do gain sentience.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Still not the same as sticking it in a real organic hole.

Neither is a Fleshlight; they still sell.

OT: Of course, all of these jokes people make about robots destroying humanity are really going to come flying back in our faces if robots ever do gain sentience.

Again why do we need robots like the ones we see in the movie I-Robot.

The only form of Robotics I would think plausible and have a use is mech vehicles, And I mean the more realistic and plausible kind like a Walker:

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/5/5a/AT-RT-TCW.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100826153545

Not something like this:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/10/108342/3774006-gundam_standing.jpg

 

[shrekfan246]

Still not the same as sticking it in a real organic hole.

Neither is a Fleshlight; they still sell.

OT: Of course, all of these jokes people make about robots destroying humanity are really going to come flying back in our faces if robots ever do gain sentience.

Again why do we need robots like the ones we see in the movie I-Robot.

The only form of Robotics I would think plausible and have a use is mech vehicles, And I mean the more realistic and plausible kind like a Walker:

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/5/5a/AT-RT-TCW.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100826153545

Not something like this:

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/10/108342/3774006-gundam_standing.jpg

Not that they should be the go-to source for all things scientific given the fact that very few actual scientists likely vetted this, but as Aperture's Cave Johnson says, "Science isn't about 'why', it's about 'why not'!"

Also, do you really think humanity is content to settle with "plausible" and "realistic"? People have been striving to do things that are popularly described as "impossible" for basically all of recorded history.

 

[shado_temple]

Again why do we need robots like the ones we see in the movie I-Robot.

As creepy as it may be, there's a lot of research going into projects like this for Human-Robot Interactions (HRI). One main driver is that we're running into an issue of a rapidly-aging population with a lack of qualified/interested healthcare staff to support them. Countries like Japan are betting heavily on the hopes that automation can solve this problem, but conventional robotic aesthetics tend to turn people off from the idea. As much as we like to think we're logic-driven individuals, we're much more likely to positively respond to something like this [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-lITdDUUAABLWi.jpg] handling our grandparents than something like this. [http://www.mathworks.com/cmsimages/73605_wm_utoronto_user_story.jpg] I did some work for a university that had performed tests to see if the elderly could be mentally stimulated by little guys like this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwWeN1ARy74] to help maintain their social cognitive abilities. The field still has a long way to go, but the eventual goal (as dysptopian as it may sound) is to have mostly self-sufficient senior care. Other service industries would also love to have a passable social robot that can handle angry customers without issue, never sleeps, and functions purely on pennies of electricity.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Again why do we need robots like the ones we see in the movie I-Robot.

As creepy as it may be, there's a lot of research going into projects like this for Human-Robot Interactions (HRI). One main driver is that we're running into an issue of a rapidly-aging population with a lack of qualified/interested healthcare staff to support them. Countries like Japan are betting heavily on the hopes that automation can solve this problem, but conventional robotic aesthetics tend to turn people off from the idea. As much as we like to think we're logic-driven individuals, we're much more likely to positively respond to something like this [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-lITdDUUAABLWi.jpg] handling our grandparents than something like this. [http://www.mathworks.com/cmsimages/73605_wm_utoronto_user_story.jpg] I did some work for a university that had performed tests to see if the elderly could be mentally stimulated by little guys like this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwWeN1ARy74] to help maintain their social cognitive abilities. The field still has a long way to go, but the eventual goal (as dysptopian as it may sound) is to have mostly self-sufficient senior care. Other service industries would also love to have a passable social robot that can handle angry customers without issue, never sleeps, and functions purely on pennies of electricity.

But than wouldn't robots like that taking forms of work and labor hinder human economies?

People complain that "immigrants" stealing their jobs and Big Companies outsourcing jobs of their home countries to Chinese workers because they work for cheap.

Imagine if we depend soley on Robots doing laborious jobs like Farming and Construction and Factory work?

Human Economies will break.