I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave.

[Viper GTS]

Is it OK if we create a robotic race that can feel and learn, but are delegated to a life a of slavery?

Being a "race" would imply that they can reproduce on their own. Until then, they are our product - a machine no different than Skoorb's car or coffee maker.

Viper GTS

 

[Elledan]

<< Is it OK if we create a robotic race that can feel and learn, but are delegated to a life a of slavery?

Being a &quot;race&quot; would imply that they can reproduce on their own. Until then, they are our product - a machine no different than Skoorb's car or coffee maker. >>

They can reproduce on their own. The only things they need are the parts required to build one of their kind.

 

[Viper GTS]

Sure, and I suppose the robots on Ford's assembly line are producing little Mustang offspring?

Get real.

Viper GTS

 

[Elledan]

<< Sure, and I suppose the robots on Ford's assembly line are producing little Mustang offspring?

Get real.

Viper GTS >>

True AI => androids: beings with at least the same mental capacities of a Human. They're very well able to construct another android, or even to improve the design.

 

[LadyNiniane]

I am amazed that this thread has gotten this far without anyone mentioning Isaac Asimov and &quot;The Bicentennial Man&quot; (either the original short story or the expanded novel on which the movie was based).

If you haven't read it, do so - either version. Then come back and give your answer to the question originally posed.

My response, for the record: If man is willing and able to create such creatures, man must needs be prepared to deal with the ethical questions that will inevitably arise from such work. However, given historical precedence, we will most likely create them and then realize that we have unwittingly unleashed a Frankenstein's monster (real or imaginary).

Lady Niniane

 

[ScrapSilicon]

shawnmos....thanks for the sounds ..nice website.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Just so everybody knows, a machine or a basic computer does not constitute artificial intelligence. We are just now scratching the surface of AI as popularized by books and movies.

When I find the links I'll post them, but there is some really cool info on the two camps on AI development.

There is the bottoms up group,which the people in the article belong to, that create the &quot;brain&quot; and teach the computer like a child.

The other group believes in programing everything it possibly can into the AI subject. This unfortunatly limits the learning ability of the &quot;program&quot;

 

[HOWITIS]

this is silly. we already use our current computers, horses, and other animals as slaves. why not robots? they can never really feel just are just performing what their program says. there will never be a robot like the robin williams one so forget about that.

 

[desy]

It is unlikely that an AI like an Android will finish off humans.
Its is much more likely that nanobot oganisms like in the Borg will finish us off. Androids are too complex, little machines that we inject in our bodies to repair or eradicate cancer cells etc will more likely be able to mutate and in effect becoming the Ebola plague we have all been worrying about.
Since these machines are a lot closer in reality than an AI they will win the race to destroy mankind.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

AI info

 

[Elledan]

<< AI info >>

Thanks for the link

 

[DannyLove]

good afternoon...............gentlemen.

danny~!