Re: Will Robots take over?

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:45:53 -0700 (PDT), California Poppy
<GoldenStatePoppy@xxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a most interesting thread. I have long wished for a way to
reprogram the brain as we reprogram computers. Just attach it to a
correct model and we could correct almost every brain disorder from
sociopath to Alzheimers. So I hope someone is working on that.

I think we run a risk when we discuss putting emotions into computers.
We might have glitches which could cause a computer to run amok and
destroy things. What human emotions would we put into computers and
to what purpose? I saw the movie I Robot, I think it was where the
robots were all programmed to protect humans at any cost which
ultimately proved to be the downfall of humans when a robot figured
out that something that was supposed to help humanity was actually
ultimately going to destroy it.



That was a Star-Trek episode, "Nomad". Nomad was a
computer robot that was sent out to look for life on other
planets. It had the power to investigate itself and make
necessary repairs from whatever materials it found to hand.
At one point, It was hit by a meteor. The purpose of its
mission was wiped out in the damage, but Nomad still
possessed the power to repair itself, and it knew it had a
mission that involved looking for life. It ran into the
remains of a cleaning robot later, and grabbed onto the
parts to repair itself. The cleaning robot it found had been
designed to look for microbes and disinfect whatever it
found that had microbes on it. After Nomad repaired itself
with parts from the cleaning robot, it discovered that its
mission was to cleanse everything of lifeforms. So from
then on it wandered the galaxy, and whenever it found a
planet with lifeforms on it, it "cleansed" that planet.




Other uses for robots that I have thought of...farming, mining, and
any labor intensive job. Caring for old folks is an area which I
understand the Japanese are working on. I saw a documentary of the
robot they are developing that can lift a human. They have a
population that has a larger percentage of the elderly, so they have a
reason. Threir cars are also being developed to make driving easier
for the elderly. I supposed this would be an intermediate area before
the robots become smarter than humans.

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