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Re your last point, this leaped immediately to mind. http://souvenirsfromaprogramme.tumblr.com/post/44133459703/the-unbelievable-truth-series-9-episode-2-the h

by M_Grey 10y ago

Re your last point, this leaped immediately to mind. http://souvenirsfromaprogramme.tumblr.com/post/44133459703/the-unbelievable-truth-series-9-episode-2-the http://souvenirsfromaprogramme.tumblr.com/post/44133459703/t... David: The Robo-Cup Federation hope that by 2050 a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players will win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules against the winner of the most recent World Cup of human soccer. That terrifies me. If they can run around and kick a ball and beat us at football, what else can they do? John: Bring us breakfast in bed! David: Yes, and then strangle us.

nl 10y ago
I don't understand this logic at all. We are supposed to be terrified by robot soccer players strangling us in bed? Sure it could happen, but there seems to be easier ways to die. Apparently one of them is riding a bike around self driving cars.
- M_Grey 10y ago
  I feel I should point out at this juncture, that this was a quote from a BBC Radio 4 comedy, and that it's not to be taken as seriously as you seem to be. I think his broader point though, as is the point of the person I was replying to originally, that when we design robots for highly adaptable, sophisticated tasks, we design a potentially very dangerous robot.
- ChuckMcM 10y ago
  It is the unintended consequences of things. One of the better lines in 'Real Genius' (another comedy) is Lazlo's "All you's need is a tracking system and a, a large spinning mirror and you can vaporize a human target from space." where the consequence of the main character building a multi-GW laser is suddenly clear to that character. I'm all in favor of self driving cars, and I look forward to the day I can use them to commute and work at the same time, but cars are already used as bombs in the middle east, it isn't a large step from self driving taxi to self driving car bomb is it?
- nradov 10y ago
  Right. Horses can beat humans in most running races. Gorillas and chimpanzees can beat humans in wrestling. And yet who's in charge?
  - M_Grey 10y ago
    Because we can outthink them. We're actively trying to build something that can at least think as well as us.

by M_Grey 10y ago

nl 10y ago

I don't understand this logic at all. We are supposed to be terrified by robot soccer players strangling us in bed? Sure it could happen, but there seems to be easier ways to die. Apparently one of them is riding a bike around self driving cars.

M_Grey 10y ago
I feel I should point out at this juncture, that this was a quote from a BBC Radio 4 comedy, and that it's not to be taken as seriously as you seem to be. I think his broader point though, as is the point of the person I was replying to originally, that when we design robots for highly adaptable, sophisticated tasks, we design a potentially very dangerous robot.
ChuckMcM 10y ago
It is the unintended consequences of things. One of the better lines in 'Real Genius' (another comedy) is Lazlo's "All you's need is a tracking system and a, a large spinning mirror and you can vaporize a human target from space." where the consequence of the main character building a multi-GW laser is suddenly clear to that character. I'm all in favor of self driving cars, and I look forward to the day I can use them to commute and work at the same time, but cars are already used as bombs in the middle east, it isn't a large step from self driving taxi to self driving car bomb is it?
nradov 10y ago
Right. Horses can beat humans in most running races. Gorillas and chimpanzees can beat humans in wrestling. And yet who's in charge?
- M_Grey 10y ago
  Because we can outthink them. We're actively trying to build something that can at least think as well as us.