Robots Part 2
Elon Musk warns AI is mankind's biggest threat
• Space X and Tesla founder has previously warned that technology could potentially be more harmful than nuclear weapons • He made his new claim about artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Aero. Astro Centennial Symposium • Mr Musk has called for an international body to monitor machines with AI • He's previously claimed that a horrific ‘Terminator-like’ scenario could be created from research into artificial intelligence
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence. ’ ‘I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. ’ ‘With artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon. You know those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram, and the holy water, and … he’s sure he can control the demon? Doesn’t work out. ’ ‘Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable. ’
ROBOQUOTATIONS 1. With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950 s. We are so past that. ― Neil de. Grasse Tyson 2. In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep. ― Daniel H. Wilson 3. If everyone followed the rules, we wouldn't be human. . . And I'd choose that than being a Robot over any day. ”― Jet Raymond Hodgkin 4. “I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books. ” ― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24 -Hour Bookstore
5. 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. ” ― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society 6. “Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency. ” ― Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel 7. “R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever? " it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo. . . " It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store ― John Sladek 8. “Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle. ”― Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees
9. “I have the shape of a human being and organs equivalent to those of a human being. My organs, in fact, are identical to some of those in a prosthetized human being. I have contributed artistically, literally, and scientifically to human culture as much as any human being now alive. What more can one ask? ” ― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Robot 10. “Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. ” ― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two 11. “There are three things that robots cannot do, " wrote Maxon. Then beneath that on the page he wrote three dots, indented. Beside the first dot he wrote "Show preference without reason (LOVE)" and then "Doubt rational decisions (REGRET)" and finally "Trust data from a previously unreliable source (FORGIVE). ” ― Lydia Netzer, Shine
12. “Can a robot be brave? Can it selflessly sacrifice? Can a robot, trained to identify and engage targets, have some sense of ethics or restraint? ” ― Eric Schmidt, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business 13. 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. Lance Morrow
Bionics In medicine, bionics means the replacement or enhancement of organs or other body parts by mechanical versions. Prostheses and nano-implants fall into this category. Best examples of bionics (ATM): Artificial heart – 1969 – still mostly used only as a means to keep the patient alive until receiving a donor heart. Cochlear implant (hearing) – 1976 – helps over 350 thousand people worldwide at the moment. Bionic arm - 2007 – helps over 1500 people worldwide. Silicon retina (sight) – still in the development Artificial blood cell – developed in 1998 but still waiting for the wide-scale testing.
A cyborg (a cybernetic organism) – the term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline. It means an organism whose functions are restored or enhanced with some artificial component. The term ‘social cyborg’ refers to any kind of complicated network that uses replaceable human components to function. A city, a market or a government can be the examples of the social cyborg.
Cyberpunk
“Any scientific progress requires the inspiration” Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a near-future setting. The usual components are: -Low social life (hence punks) and most often – street and gang wars. -Large underground market on anything – from meth and weed to a rocket launcher. -Cheap and available technology, handheld computers, visors, holograms, even robots. -Matrix as an advanced social network or even environment. -Available bionics and cheap ways to upgrade your body to the top notch (to get to some top notch security zones) -World run my megacorps or united government, or other evil guys
Matrix
5 th element
Usual implants or bionic replacements in the cyberpunk world 1. Improved senses (seeing through walls, thermosense, low light vision). 2. Improved muscles (lifting cars, jumping from the roofs). 3. Improved reflexes (moving faster, reacting faster, than an average human). 4. Improved chemistry (pheromone glands to impress opposite sex). 5. Body-installed computers (tattoo-printed computer, eye-injected visors). 6. Nanomedicine (healing cuts, connecting tissues, stopping blood loss). 7. Memory control (ability to scroll and review some of your memories or all of them). 8. Memory wipe (ability to delete memories or install yourself on some other body). Which one would you choose?
1. What do you think about bionics – the replacement of limbs with machine parts? 2. Would you have a bionic arm - or rather a real one installed if you had a good reason to? 3. How many implants can a person have to still be called a human? 4. Do you think robots will ever learn emotions or love? Will they need them? 5. Will the robots become so advanced in the future they could fully replace humans? What consequences might it have? 6. Is it possible the humans will have to destroy all robots eventually to survive or continue to evolve as a race? 7. Would you give a peaceful self aware robot all the human rights?
