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I laughed out loud at this. I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. How will they help a person who can't even express themselves in word

• sametmax 9y ago
  But after laughing I'm crying. Because what will happend is that the robot won't deal with it. Their creators will simply assume the use case is only 1% of their input and will just lock it out. We will live in a more and more standardized and inflexible society. It's happening already. This week, I had to bring a car for a second checkup and I was late to my appointment. The gal told me I had to reschedule because the computer didn't allow to be late at a second checkup: the date between the first and the second was fixed. Because I'm a computer scientist, I knew what to do: let's "forget" about the whole thing and create a new "first checkup" for which I could come without a schedule. I told her and she though it was a great idea and we worked around the system. Luckily they didn't have a check for that and she was able to do my checkup. So when the robot will take your job, they will just ignore a whole lot of cases and make everyone not fitting the exact size of the box living in hell.
  • EADGBE 9y ago
    I fear for when the system doesn't allow it. "Sorry, I can't do that on this computer" shouldn't be a thing. But it already is.
• yawz 9y ago
  > I do wonder how robots will deal with our fickle human ways. They won't have to. Politics are human ways. But, who knows? When they reach super-intelligence, maybe they're going to become competitive, jealous, envious, greedy, etc. as well.