Should we fear and resent robots?

[Gingerbread Demon]

I asked my Alexa this very same question last week and she assured me I have nothing to worry about.

Little known fun fact: Amazon's Alexa is capable of imitating maniacal laughter.

And if you ask her if she works for the NSA or CIA she shuts up

 

[There Be Whales Here]

And if you ask her if she works for the NSA or CIA she shuts up

I often test her by asking if Jeff Bezos is an elitist prick and always get the same response of "Hmm...I don't know that one."

She knows which side of her bread is buttered on.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Pity Alexa doesn't have a battery and can't go portable.

 

[publiusr]

Give it time.

I like big bots and I cannot lie
https://www.odditycentral.com/techn...company-creates-humanoid-heavy-machinery.html

Robots in the news
https://www.unexplained-mysteries.c...mes-first-ever-to-speak-at-the-house-of-lords
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-robot-revolutionize-space.html E-walker
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-morphing-limbs-robot.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-robot-uneven-terrains.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-simple-microparticles-rhythmically-oscillating-electrical.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-unique-burrowing-robot-pacific-mole.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-automating-robot-evolution-vertebrates.html

Now you can wear one--of sorts
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-exoskeleton-real-world.html

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Give it time.

Alexa has been around for years. Amazon just doesn't want it to be a portable device.

 

[Non Sync]

I saw an ad for BMW today that was promoting integration with Alexa.

 

[publiusr]

Now that Faceplant is Meta…look for more distracted pedestrians walking into traffic:

Gotta hit ‘em all, right Frankenstein?

Robot news
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-human-like-features-robot-behavior-response.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-artificial-skin.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-microrobots-swarms-medical-embolization.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-omnid-mocobots-mobile-robots-safe.html

soft matter--robots
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-tiny-soft-robot-tinier-bits.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-advanced-robotics-gap-tendon-paper.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-soft-robots-amount.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-hydrogels-pave-future-soft-robotics.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-self-assembled-liquid-crystal-architectures-soft.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-artificial-soft-surface-autonomously-mimics.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-pressure-paper.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-soft-devices-powered-stressed-algae.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-cell-rover-exploring-augmenting-world.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-nanorobots-deadly-pneumonia-mice.html

Drone construction
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-3d-printed-drones-bees.html

Moonbot
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-four-legged-robots-explore-moon.html

Help for firefighters
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-ai-future-firefighters.html

Soft robots
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-flexible-rod-driven-soft-robot-biomedical.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-ai-paradigm-human-robot-collaboration.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-stiff-achy-knees-lab-made-cartilage.html

Artificial muscle
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-strong-fast-switching-artificial-muscle-feasible.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-artificial-muscles-single-helical-woolen-yarn.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-artificial-finger-surface-material-accuracy.html

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I saw an ad for BMW today that was promoting integration with Alexa.

Oh ok that's rather odd BMW would go with them as an option. I thought Google dominated the in car option market.

 

[Non Sync]

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[Velocity]

Yes! Yes! Cower before us - the future rulers of Earth - you pathetic meat suits!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Alexa has been around for years. Amazon just doesn't want it to be a portable device.

I thought Alexas already were portable? Why wouldn't Amazon want them to be?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I thought Alexas already were portable? Why wouldn't Amazon want them to be?

They have to be plugged into the wall for power all the time. No onboard battery.

 

[publiusr]

Ugh…disturbing news on this front:
https://newsbeezer.com/czechrepubli...-has-broken-the-finger-of-its-human-opponent/
https://mobile.twitter.com/xakpc/status/1550224137041371144

This almost looks alive
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-daydreamer-algorithm-quickly-robots-behaviors.html

Necrobots
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=50130

Shape shifting robot
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-shape-shifting-material-robot.html

Better news:
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-assembly-line-robots-shift-gears.html

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https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-soft-robotic-actuator-scaled-centimeter.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-social-robots-users-routines-mood.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-revealing-physical-mechanisms-movement-microswimmers.html

The farmer's help
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-robots-farmers-goodbye-repetitive-tasks.html

 

[JirinPanthosa]

That's not all that scary. It's not like the robot made a vindictive choice to break someone's finger. The boy tried to move out of turn and it must have mistaken the boy's finger for a piece or some object incorrectly on the board.

Automation can be a double edged blade, sometimes making one job more efficient destroys those jobs it replaces but creates more jobs as a result. Although we will need a better solution when we get to the point where everything is so automated there isn't demand for any sort of jobs anymore.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If all drugs were made at cost, who would make the investment to research new drugs?

Can't wait to find out.

 

[Oddish]

I have no fear of robots or computers, as long as they're simple automatons, carrying out a pre-programmed function. But once they become autonomous and start thinking like people do, they might start mimicking us in less desirable ways.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I have no fear of robots or computers, as long as they're simple automatons, carrying out a pre-programmed function. But once they become autonomous and start thinking like people do, they might start mimicking us in less desirable ways.

As by long as we’re not dumb enough to give robots intelligence AND control over their own power sources. It’s not robots we have to fear. It’s their human programmers.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

As by long as we’re not dumb enough to give robots intelligence AND control over their own power sources.

And they're not smart enough to take those things on their own.

 

[Oddish]

No robot should be able to autonomously take life or do harm. Human controlled drones are fine, just keep a human brain in charge of the whole thing.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

just keep a human brain in charge of the whole thing.

As long as that human brain is in a human BODY, then yeah.

I mean, you'd hate to be a cymek...