Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.
They were. . . well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT.
You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yesno answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A. I. , which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response. . . mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot
Man is a robot with defects.
Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.
I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.
Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops.
It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.
I'm not a robot - I don't do the robot stuff, yeah.
