Robotic age poses ethical dilemma (Insanity).

BBC ^ | Wednesday, March 7, 2007

[kinoxi]

It is being put together by a five member team of experts that includes futurists and a science fiction writer.

:)

[ladtx]

How do you become a futurist?

I suppose you have to go to the University of Futurism and obtain a Bachelors degree in futuristics. Wonder if they will have crystal balls in the school bookstore?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This is what happens when you reduce man to an animal who came about by chance. Animals and now even the nonliving are being considered for human rights.

Robots are supposed to be ethical slaves. They should be considered as such. When they get old or break down and it is more expensive to fix them than to buy another, they should be sold or recycled. They should not get pensions.

Even Star Wars droids don't get that many rights--and they're sentient (actual robots wouldn't be; Star Wars is fictional, after all).

[kinoxi]

You predict things that cannot possibly be disproved in your lifetime. Oh, and you need a grant(s).

[knarf]

DEvolution.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

ping?

[antiRepublicrat]

Why do they even bother? This has been debated in sci-fi novels for decades.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

[GourmetDan]

"Star Wars is fictional, after all..."

What!? What!?

[Kirkwood]

Bad news for Magnus.

[AntiKev]

Everyone here should read "The Age of Spiritual Machines - When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence" by Ray Kurzweil. An excellent introduction and perspective on where we've come from and where we are going.

[Momaw Nadon]

"Robots are supposed to be ethical slaves. They should be considered as such."

Ahh, it would be nice for me to have a personal robot to send to work in my place.

Well, a guy can still dream.

[discostu]

Eventually robots probably will be sentient, or at least close enough to fake it. Creating a new slave class that's faster, stronger and more durable than people has no choice but to end badly. If somehow or another they figure out resentment we'd all be in deep trouble.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Not much offensive intended to them, but South Koreans seem a bit......off when it comes to high-tech. They predict such grand yet crazy things. It suggests that while they use a lot of high technology, they weren't the ones who created it, and they have a limited grasp of the purpose of it.

P.S. One of those other crazy things was a prediction that within the next twenty years, the internet (and computers) would emit smells. Oddly, the Japanese seem to be the same way. It might be a "generalized" East Asian thing, then, not unique to South Korea.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Not much offense intended to them, but South Koreans seem a bit......off when it comes to high-tech. They predict such grand yet crazy things. It suggests that while they use a lot of high technology, they weren't the ones who created it, and they have a limited grasp of the purpose of it.

P.S. One of those other crazy things was a prediction that within the next twenty years, the internet (and computers) would emit smells. Oddly, the Japanese seem to be the same way. It might be a "generalized" East Asian thing, then, not unique to South Korea.

[kinoxi]

Build one.

[Momaw Nadon]

"Everyone here should read "The Age of Spiritual Machines - When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence" by Ray Kurzweil."

I agree.

EXCELLENT BOOK!