So I just got done watching an episode of "through the wormhole".
It was focused on robot development and it was all good except for one thing that sort of gave me the chills.
There is at least one scientist that is teaching robots to develop their own language.
In the early experiments they just gave two robots some simple rules and then they vocalized at each other,mostly requesting simple movements, making corrections and soon enough they were making up words that the lead scientist didn't understand until the robots taught him what they meant.
I guess I can get behind this, I mean why wouldn't we want robots to be able to talk to each other without us being able to understand them.
</nervous laughter>
Don't forget the three rules!Someone is familiar with Isaac Asimov I see !
1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2 A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3 A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Someone is familiar with Isaac Asimov I see !
I have not read the book but I have seen both movies!
I read R.U.R. long before I read Asimov.
I read R.U.R. long before I read Asimov.Hmmm, first I've heard of RUR. Interesting.
Interesting, Iv'e not read R.U.R, i"ll look for it.
My favorite robots are in the Saberhagen Berserker series..
Hmmm, first I've heard of RUR. Interesting.
Consider ourselves lucky that the Nexus 6 will have only a 4 year lifespan, and be limited to the offworld colonies.
Don't forget the three rules!
1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2 A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3 A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
I don't think these guys heard of those rules...
They didn't listen to Hal, either.
The robots that made the biggest impression on me that I haven't seen mention.
The robinson robot
Gort from the original day the earth stood still. The remake robot wasn't too bad either.
Robbie the robot from forbidden planet.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
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HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
You know what?
After giving it some more thought I don't think it matters.
I'd like to see a show of hands of folkes that understand http ,https. ssl, tcp, ip, ftp, scp, etc.
I reckon they ain't killed us yet.
OK. My hand is up. Now what?
:tongue:
That makes us a danger to the robot conspiracy.
You've been warned.
I keep a portable EMP device in my pocket. Robots beware.
There is a joke there somewhere. :whistling:
OK. My hand is up. Now what?
Resistance is futile!Technically the Borg are cybernetic, and not full fledged robots.
Wow...
Minds in the same gutter.
Who'd a thunk.
:cheersmate:
Technically the Borg are cybernetic, and not full fledged robots.
They were developed from robots somewhere in their family tree. They're full fullflegder that robots.
bitchslapped for buying into the theory of evolution!!!
:tongue:
Your hand's up what?Mine is halfway up the same what.
Mine is halfway up the same what.
Glad your typing skills were up to snuff on that one.When I wrote it I thought it would be internet gold, CG...gold !
It was a play about human like robots written way back in the 1920's or so IIRC, Anton Chekov(sp?).
I used to read a comic way back when about a guy that fought renegade robots.
Sort of close, it was written (IIRC) by a Czech, not Chekov. I think his name was something like Karel Capek, the "C" having some sort of Czech inflection mark on it that I think means it was a 'Ch' sound, like we pronounce 'Which,' but I don't know much about Slavic lingo variations on the Roman alphabet and I could be misremembering the mark anyway.
Used to have a paperback copy of it around, a 60s-era paperback with both a novelette and the play in it that my Dad had picked up somewhere, though the book had some title with 'Robots' in it rather than R. U. R.
Rossum's Universal Robots
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