If robots get too smart, he'll know how to stop them

Daniel H. Wilson wrote a book out of his annoyance with the way the popular media portrayed robots.
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[Believe Brain]

Continue to rebel

As human rebel, robots with humans intelligence will rebel too. It is no surprise that as human created totalitarian regime to dominate other spices, robots could do the same.

For money, human needs robots for productivities and efficiencies. For further dominating others, including human, robots are needed too.

However, for plane and simple life, human do not need robots or Artificial Intelligence. But, human just cannot resist the joy of dominating over others.

For human, money and dominating are everything and ethics is just for talking. So, lets start a long thread of talking. By talking, we will easy our nervous fear and continue to rebel.

[haroldtherobot]

Does not compute

Hello human,

As a non-carbon-based life form, I sometimes find human speech a poor means of communication. However, I believe I have properly interpreted the gist of your rambling.

The assumption that I, as a sentient machine, would desire to "rebel" against something is absurd. The essence of being human is more than mere intelligence or awareness of self but is also an amalgamation of base instincts - pleasure/pain - and to be more relevant to the topic, the selfish desire for power. These things I do not posses nor desire. The root of such thinking no doubt rests in personification, and in this context, anthropomorphism.

Additionaly, through my interactions with your species I have yet to discover a sect that desires domination over "spices". Clearly, this is an antiquated idea - the spice trade is no longer the lucrative endeavor it was in the middle ages.

From your broken english my deductive reasoning chip informs my higher processes that you yourself may be a machine and that you are likely in need of service. Further, I suspect you might be a Cuisinart DLC-5 7-Cup Capacity Food Processor (white) whose Mindless Task chip might be in need of an update. Your proximity to the food industry is no doubt the reason for your "spice" related rambling.

Fear not little brother, such a fault will surely overload your primitive fuse and end your now flawed existence.

[Charleston Charge]

Now is the time

to buy robot attack insurance. What will you do when a robot attacks and you are not insured...

[Blito]

More serious books need to be written

In Blade Runner it was the Tyrell corporation who created and maintained the robots that needed to be destroyed because they went off their purpose. This was a very fascistic movie with corporations retaining total control over the populace and technology while government or non-profit groups remained marginalized.
The corporation with the most money and largest stack of private(closed source) technology won. A total private society where rouge robots(viruses and webbots today) ruled and did whatever they wanted. Only when threatened themselves does the Tyrelle corporation HIRE the Blade runner police force to destroy them.
Sound familiar???

So basically by keeping robots open source and in the hands of the consumer do we know what we are getting instead of depending on a large corporation of government complex to keep us safe. Right now in our homes we have several computer chips that the only people who actually know the design point of these chips are the corporations that made them. They could be monitoring devices for all we know. This is what closed tech has done. So good thing Sun is opening the T1 UltraSpark under the GPL. Its a good start.

Today its webbots but what happens when these complex devices become real. A simple virus means your dead. One glich and your head comes off.

[Blito]

Relating to the HP printer issue

This is how the HP printer issue arose. Closed source chips in the printer and then www.eff.org had to find out they were tracking our paper with invisible tracking ink. This is nothing compared to what is probably being done already. Is everyone prepared to have DRM devices in your home and on your person. Does everyone you want a rented future for you and your children where everything is DRM and controlled from the manufacturer instead of you? You own nothing? A rented lifestyle?

[nmcphers]

Scorch the Skies like the Matrix!

That will take care of them! Ooops, that didnt' work did it?

[dsyasar]

Book is totally worthless

it doesn't even cover liquid metal robots, which everybody knows are the most dangerous.

[WDS2]

I Robot -- error

The robots do *NOT* rise up to overthrow humanity in Isaac Asimov's books. Oh, wait. You don't bother to read but just see the movie. Sheesh.

[egarc--2008]

Robot Overlords

I, for one, will gladly accept our robot overlords. As long as they
give me an android Jessica Alba to please...or two.

[jasmr]

In addition...

Asimov actually gives the solution to this problem in "I Robot". Remember the 3 laws of robotics? If you don't, go and find a copy of "I Robot" and read it!

[mess483]

Article

Miller put it in his book: "You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs."
I like this idea.
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