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home help robots

Marianne72

I read BBC news today about help robots in care homes. I would love a care robot in my home.  A humanoid robot that stands in the corner and interacts when I want conversation, helps me get up from a chair, peels the veg. etc. What do you think? Orwellian nightmare or urban boon?

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  • I will be going on about a game again so sorry if this gets annoying. But can robots love and have feelings? In Paper Mario ttyd Tec XX fell in love with Peach and his love for her made him a good character and he betrayed the people who built him. I mean in Tecs case he was the good guy (or robot) but what if AI were to betray their owners? 

    I also want to add how gentlemanly Tec was when he met Mario and how he accepted that Mario also likes Peach and Tec didn’t get jealous and wanted what’s best for Peach. But there again maybe he wasn’t programmed to be jealous but he was made by the bad guys and knew all sorts of negative emotions. Sorry if this isn’t really related to the post but if you played TTYD you will know who I’m going on about

  • in reply to Elfilis
    Elfilis said:
    can robots love and have feelings?

    At their current stage of development, any artificial intelligence only acts how we tell it to act, so any emotions are responses that are programmed into the software.

    Once we reach the Singularity (ie when computers surpass humans intelligence) then we cannot accurately predict how the computers will continue to evolve as once they are capable of abstract thought and self awareness then all bets are off.

    I'm afraid Tec and Mario are just following the 1's and 0's of their coding and are incapable of acting outside the constraints of it. If they are programmed into an AI in future who knows - maybe we end up with a bad Mario instead once he realise the cruelty his human overlords have subjected him to by making him live a life if high adrenalie racing for day after day.

    If humans are capable of PTSD then why not AI? Scary when you think on it in these terms.

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  • in reply to Elfilis
    Elfilis said:
    can robots love and have feelings?

    At their current stage of development, any artificial intelligence only acts how we tell it to act, so any emotions are responses that are programmed into the software.

    Once we reach the Singularity (ie when computers surpass humans intelligence) then we cannot accurately predict how the computers will continue to evolve as once they are capable of abstract thought and self awareness then all bets are off.

    I'm afraid Tec and Mario are just following the 1's and 0's of their coding and are incapable of acting outside the constraints of it. If they are programmed into an AI in future who knows - maybe we end up with a bad Mario instead once he realise the cruelty his human overlords have subjected him to by making him live a life if high adrenalie racing for day after day.

    If humans are capable of PTSD then why not AI? Scary when you think on it in these terms.

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  • in reply to Iain

    It’s very scary really. I mean these tv shows and games go on about evil AI and we all will watch it play for entertainment but the way technology goes it could happen for real. Maybe not in our lifetimes though. 

    I can’t say I know much about the game Detroit:Become human  but if I’m correct I think the AI androids form an uprising because they realise they are being controlled. I mean if that were to happen in real life it would be scary. But there are Androids who are also good and act like humans and aren’t wanting to be erased. I think you can decide the outcomes of the gameplay and have various endings. I only discovered the game recently and it’s only grabbed my attention because Mr Krabs voice actor is in the game. Sorry if this has gone off topic again