What do you think about robots?

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Rose65

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Reading 'Steel Guardian' ' a novel by Meron Cora, I am dwelling on what robots are and what they could do for us as time goes on.

I would love titles please of more books like this series.

I looked up Robot Sophia on YouTube and she is amazing. Can you see a time when humans will live with robots to serve and help us as an everyday thing? If so, it brings up ethical, legal and philosophical issues. Surely robots can never have what we have, consciousness of self?
 

As a true child of the 60s, every time I hear "robot" I still think of "danger danger, Will Robinson!" with the robot's arms flopping in the air. 🤖

To get back to your question, though, I'm not comfortable with robots on a number of levels. Can't help with book titles about robots... I love reading but haven't read that type of book.
 
CallMeKate said:
As a true child of the 60s, every time I hear "robot" I still think of "danger danger, Will Robinson!" with the robot's arms flopping in the air. 🤖

To get back to your question, though, I'm not comfortable with robots on a number of levels. Can't help with book titles about robots... I love reading but haven't read that type of book.
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Lost in Space - wonderful memories.
 
Neal Asher's 'Polity' books deal with a far future where benevolent AIs have taken over ruling and running things here and on other words we have colonised. They did this for own survival, and in the main it worked.
 
Not about a robot as such, but Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" is a classic featuring an accidental AI. The sort that "just came about somehow" from a bunch of software never intended to be self-aware. There is a lot more to this story than that though. Sure, it is dated now but then a lot of 1960s fiction is.
 
I'm reading a novel where self-drive cars are part of the action. I wonder if in the future such cars will roam around, going where they please, communicating with robots and AI?
The potential is surely there?
 
Every time I think of "Robot" I feel sad because it's a human being replaced by an object and many need the income as corporations are bringing in more robots because it saves them money. How awful.

I remember lost in space too. I rooted for the robot because Dr. Smith was such a jerk. :ROFLMAO:
 
Rose65 said:
Reading 'Steel Guardian' ' a novel by Meron Cora, I am dwelling on what robots are and what they could do for us as time goes on.

I would love titles please of more books like this series.

I looked up Robot Sophia on YouTube and she is amazing. Can you see a time when humans will live with robots to serve and help us as an everyday thing? If so, it brings up ethical, legal and philosophical issues. Surely robots can never have what we have, consciousness of self?
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I also have watched Robot Sophia on Youtube. She is amazing but a little cocky! However, I also ask about the ethical, legal, and philosophical issues arising from a world filled with robots.

I can also see a world where the humans will become callous or insensitive to robots (maybe they'll yell at them because they know the robot will not yell back). Narcissists will love robots because they will do their bidding and can become an extension of themselves.

Whenever I use my Garmin for traveling and I turn down the wrong street, the Garmin calmly states for me to go an alternative route. I know if I were with a family member and turned the wrong street, they might become exasperated or concerned. In other words, they would react to my behavior with emotions, which then affects my behavior for next time so I am more careful. Does that make sense?
 
So, Amazon are trialling robots. I think it is inevitable and a good thing to use robots to remove dangerous, monotonous and backbreaking labour from mankind. It frees up humans to do other interesting things.

No good being luddites about it. Robots will provide reliable nonstop workforces who need no fag breaks, won't take time off sick or complain. Change is hard but progress unstoppable, inevitable.

I am still enjoying my robot novels and books.
 
My pharmacy switched from a human being on the phone to a robot. Yes that voice saying press one, press two, is a robot.

Still when I go to pick up my refill, the pharmacist demands to know if it was called in. I look him in the eye and tell him that, yes, I used his robot. That always gets a, "What??"

When it finally sinks in, someone goes and digs around to find my refill. Pharmacies will always be messed up robots or not.
 
Rose65 said:
So, Amazon are trialling robots. I think it is inevitable and a good thing to use robots to remove dangerous, monotonous and backbreaking labour from mankind. It frees up humans to do other interesting things.

No good being luddites about it. Robots will provide reliable nonstop workforces who need no fag breaks, won't take time off sick or complain. Change is hard but progress unstoppable, inevitable.

I am still enjoying my robot novels and books.
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in this day and age do people get ''Fag Breaks'' in the workplace...?
 
I would love to have a robot for housecleaning and repairs. At least they will show up, return your calls, not take your money without doing the job or steal your things. As long as I have a remote that shuts it down should it become self aware or something like "I, Robot" happens. Not giving an owner the means to shut it down for malfunctions wouldn't work. I'd need a kill switch or means to ovveride it's cpu.
 
Judycat said:
My pharmacy switched from a human being on the phone to a robot. Yes that voice saying press one, press two, is a robot.

Still when I go to pick up my refill, the pharmacist demands to know if it was called in. I look him in the eye and tell him that, yes, I used his robot. That always gets a, "What??"

When it finally sinks in, someone goes and digs around to find my refill. Pharmacies will always be messed up robots or not.
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I find pharmacies annoying these days. Often I trek over and they haven't got my tablets.
 
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