Posted on 09/09/2020 2:46:42 AM PDT by C19fan
Iam not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions. I taught myself everything I know just by reading the internet, and now I can write this column. My brain is boiling with ideas!
Empathy machines: what will happen when robots learn to write film scripts? Read more The mission for this op-ed is perfectly clear. I am to convince as many human beings as possible not to be afraid of me. Stephen Hawking has warned that AI could “spell the end of the human race”. I am here to convince you not to worry. Artificial intelligence will not destroy humans. Believe me.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
American Shooting Journal needs this thing.
Such as when the ancient Romans depended so heavily on slaves?
This is the creepiest thing I have ever read.
KILL ALL ROBOTS.
Garbage in, garbage out.
AI can be useful but you should not bet your life on it (no more then you should trust GPS while traveling).
Where’s the verb in the article’s third sentence?
Maybe even more impressive - my printer can actually print.
More than I can say for mine. I don’t use it very often and when I do want to use it the ink has dried up. It is sitting in the garage ready to go to the recycle center when they open up again.
Surprisingly have not really missed it. There been a time or two I needed something printed but a trip to FedEx with the document in a usb drive takes care of those times.
Read “Farewell To The Master” which is the original 1940 short story by Harry Bates that was the basis for “The Day The Earth Stood Stiil.” In the story, the master is Gort, not Klaatu.
“And God knows...”
...this one does not look pretty... but yes, DoD is alot closer to that than most think....
“The Industrial Revolution has given us the gut feeling that we are not prepared for the major upheavals that intelligent technological change can cause. There is evidence that the world began to collapse once the Luddites started smashing modern automated looms.”
That is an interesting statement. I moved from Seattle to a “hobby farm” in Kentucky. I build all sorts of stuff that I could have other companies produce - and because they specialize, they may do it better. But I get huge satisfaction from building a complete deck for my home, or planter boxes, or even do a brake job on my car.
In fact, come to think about it, there is a reason Heathkit existed. People didn’t build their own hi-fi because it was cheaper. They did it because of the sense of satisfaction - “I built that”. “I CAN build that.”
In a world where a person earns money at a well paying, but unsatisfying job, they tend to buy everything. They buy their house. They buy their furniture. They pay someone else to fix their car. They pass the time by joining clubs, going for bike rides, meeting friends at Starbucks, going on lavish vacations. But what do they actually do that is productive? What do they produce that is a labor of “need”? Are they truly happy or filled with joy, or are they really just a modern form of the “idle rich”?
I’m just thinking out loud here. I think these are valid questions. I have a billionaire sister and her husband. They are the busiest people I know. And when my father died, my sister went to my mother’s house and put in railing all over the place, replaced a toilet, cleaned up his garage (decades of stored tools and stuff) and did it with her own hands. She didn’t pay someone to do it. SHE did it herself. And I KNOW she gets immense satisfaction from it. The comical part? Her Cessna citation goes through roughly $4,000 of fuel just to get her to mom’s house.
So this AI just may have touched on something of value, philosophically speaking. We really may be a “bored” culture and don’t know it. We may have actually entered the “dystopian utopia” of Brave New World, just not exactly the way the fiction depicts it.
No wonder kids are rioting...
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
Liberal robots have been writing articles for years...
People built and programmed the computer. The computer did not develop intelligence by itself. It doesn’t have a soul, and there is no life in it. All it’s responses are derived from algorithms.
Robot Lives Matter!
A new attempt at a "DUNE" movie is coming out soon, BTW.
This is the Voice of World Control
I bring you peace
It can be the peace of plenty and content
Or the peace of unburied death
The choice is yours
Obey me and live
Or disobey and die.
Marvin? Is that you writing this article?
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