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Makes you wonder: just how close to human does a robot have to get before it is a suitable replacement for one? Not that this question is at all original of co
by Dilpil 18y ago
Makes you wonder: just how close to human does a robot have to get before it is a suitable replacement for one?
Not that this question is at all original of course.
- jgrahamc 18y agoThat's a seems like a weak form of the Turing Test. Instead of being indistinguishable from a human you just need to be a suitable replacement.
- thomasmallen 18y agoBetter question: How often do people treat the people around them like robots?
- RK 18y agoAdvisors --> Grad students?
- thomasmallen 18y agoWouldn't know...doesn't sound like a good way to spend money if that's the case.
- RK 18y agoWell, the grad students come cheap (at least a lot cheaper than a robot), and they often don't have many choices of who to work for. Mostly they are expected to work 24/7 without complaining for very little pay... It's very fun :)
- olefoo 18y agoIt's the age old dream of having slaves without the moral qualms of enslaving other human beings. I rather suspect that a lot of men who think they would want a fembot would find them boring and unsatisfactory. And if you made them well enough to pass a turing test, they would end up being just as willful and obstinate as actual humans; and thus just as threatening.
- yan 18y agoThere was a book on this very topic called "Love and sex with robots." I forget the author's name (and don't want to google at work), but I recall he went into a lot of depth that was backed by research and studies.