Good evening everyone :-)
Hope you all had a rocking day ! In her previous message, Shelly wrote that
perhaps it was easier to communicate with something that would be visually
similar to us. This is a fact. The funny part though is that human beings
themselves create artificial intelligence that they later feel hard to
relate to as difference quite often leads to fear.
In "Avengers : Age of Ultron" where an artificial intelligence initially
created to foster peace turns out to be vehement and harmful, Ultron,
talking about humans, declares :
"Everyone creates the thing they dread. Men of peace create engines of war,
invaders create avengers. People create... smaller people? Uhh... children!
[...] Children, designed to supplant them..."
Well I guess it is more than accurate. We create things that go sometimes
way beyond our control and we fear them. We want these things to be
different (more skilled, more effective, more powerful) and yet similar to
us (to be able to interact and relate) which is not less than an antinomy.
I came accross an article today (
http://www.franceinfo.fr/emission/nouveau-monde/2014-2015/les-robots-le-chomage-et-les-emplois-de-2030-11-05-2015-06-50
- in French though-) talking about robots, unemployment and jobs of the
future. The article states that robots are everywhere now and that no
matter how hard we may try, there won't be any turning back. In France and
the United States, nearly 50 % of jobs will disappear in the next 20 years
because of the robot revolution. Other jobs will certainly be created (at
the end of the day, these robots will still need to be created or to go
through maintenance though scientists are now working on robots able to
take care of these aspects as well) but in the end we have launched a
process that we might totally lose control over.
Maybe we think that by designing human-like robots, we'll feel less scared
and more at ease. The naked truth is they remain artificial whatever we may
do. And who knows up to what point we'll actually be able to keep our
creation under control...
Have a great evening :-)
Amaelle
2015-05-12 17:42 GMT+04:00 S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>:
> Hi Shelly,
> At 05:25 12-05-2015, Shelly Hermia Bhujun wrote:
>
>> Here's an article i read from Le Matinal today:
>>
>>
>> http://www.lematinal.com/sci-tech/8326-icub-le-robot-enfant-qui-montre-de-vraies-emotions.html
>>
>
> I found the words used in that news article in another article published
> on 25 March:
> http://fr.canoe.ca/techno/materiel/archives/2015/03/20150325-152226.html
>
> touching-just like a human. The purpose of designing such robots is to
>> facilitate human to robot interaction. I guess its because it is more easy
>> to communicate with something that is visually similar/ looks like humans.
>>
>
> Yes.
>
> Getting back to the article i read. This is not similar to ex-machina
>> (which is to my opinion the perfect human-like robot they built or designed
>> so far- but that's just in movies) but it is the beginning of such kind of
>> inventions that can eventually results to building robots like ex-machina!
>> who knows!
>>
>> Here are other links where you can read about some of the humanoid robots
>> designed so far:
>>
>>
>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/susankalla/2015/01/20/human-like-robots-are-getting-jobs/
>>
>
> Thanks for sharing that article. I have not read it before. The academic
> paper about Eulerian video magnification is at
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/vidmag.pdf
>
> http://mashable.com/2014/06/24/japans-new-robots-are-scary/
>>
>
> That article mentions the "uncanny valley". It is an interesting topic.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
>
>
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