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With the advancing technologies being developed all over the world today, robots and articifical intelligence never seemed more possible. It begins with a calculator doing our math for us as we punch in different multiplications and problems to have it solved for us. Soon enough, we have a Roomba cleaning the floor in our apartment. Although the Roomba is sort of dumb, it's still a machine. Technology is advancing and it's amazing, but I can't help but think, when will the robots try to take over?
Movies like A.I, I, Robot and The Matrix Trilogy scare the hell out of me. I, Robot is pretty possible because people are damn lazy. I know for sure if they began selling robots to do laundry and cook, I would get one in an instant. In the image above, the farmer, Wu Yulu built a robot to pull his rickshaw. Amazing as it is, I fear for the future developement of robots!
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In this image, a robot rolls its way across a path while showing an apartment. This would typically be a human job but advances in technology have made this possible. It's amazing and frightening at the same time.
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Robots are everywhere. This robot is a Navy operated robot! It has found a claymore land mine. It's the military robots that are especially dangerous in my mind. Some of them are built with guns, grenades and mines. What if the electronics in that robot were to go haywire? What if that robot developed true artificial intelligence and rampaged through a town?!
Robots are awesome and cool for the moment, but do you fear for a future similar to The Matrix or I, Robot?
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I think the idea is pretty scary, but I'm more afraid of crappy security and people hacking robots to do their bidding than I am of artificial intelligence leading to a crazy rebellion. Someone could make a nasty virus that'd make our bots go insane-- terrifying!
Even if the robots aren't directly involved in killing us all, I could imagine people being so dependent on robots that the global economy could collapse if something crazy happened and all robots were rendered useless-- or the omnipresence of robots could change human evolution in maladaptive ways, or...
yeah, basically I'm afraid of robots. But they're still BA, so... :D
nope. dont think so
i dont think they will ever be able to think, process, and reason the way a human can... it would require an infinite amount of memory that technology is nowhere near
Male robots - No
Females robots - Hell yeah
Are you serious?
I do fear a future similar to Terminator 2's future Judgement Day.
Impossible, with the way they're programmed........
Not for a very long time.