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household robots latest - leading to utopia or Orwellian nightmare [Turing/Hawking/Musk]

Marianne72

There is a clumsy fascination about the latest household bots, Eggie, Neo, Isaac and Memo. Manufacturers claim 20 years will bring autonomous functioning [rather than 'direction' by humans]. Considering the Backshall/Strachan docu 'Ice Age; Apocolypse', is a future like the one in Silent Running inevitable/desirable/unthinkable? Do you want a mouthless meca washing your smalls, making your marmite sandwich, loading the dishwasher? Is this good use of technology in an age which has not eradicated want/isolation/poverty/war.

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  • I wouldn’t want a household bot that performed like Eggie et.al. as they can’t be trusted to perform their duties without causing damage and their slowness would annoy me. 

    iI would quite like a bot that would reliably change the bed, do the laundry, washing up and cleaning. Then I could spend more time doing the things that I enjoy doing. I wouldn’t want it to come near me and it would need to be aware that it should stay away from me. It would be cheaper to employ a human to do that, but I don’t want people who aren’t friends coming into my home and being intrusive, so a bot appeals to me. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Me too, I would also worry about what info they're sending back to base?

    Being a techoklutz I've not looked into these robots, but because I'm a technoklutz I would trust myself with one, although it might learn some new words from me, and if it really acted up I'd probably hit it.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I'd probably hit it.

    That reminds me of the old family TV we had when I was growing up. If the picture started flickering and going on and off, a good whack on the side of the casing put it to rights … for a while. It was incredibly annoying to have a temperamental TV, especially when the picture disappeared while watching something extremely interesting. At the same time, it felt so good to give the TV a hard whack when the picture came back. 

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I miss giving things like TV's a good thump too.

    I don't miss the playing of the National Anthem at the close though, I remember it from the cinema too, there would always be somebody standing to attention in the middle of the aisle not wanting to let anyone out until it was over.

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