I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.
The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.
My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.
Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?
So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.
We made the world uninhabitable for ourselves and it can only be inhabited by robots and androids.
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.
The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision. . . This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents. . . But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?
Omigawa is moving forward like a karate robot
When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.
There are a lot of times when we can just time something and say "busted" or "confirmed" or whatever, instead of building a robot or some gadget to make it happen more elaborately. In those cases, we're simply enjoying ourselves.
If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.
We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.