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The day until robots have basic rights is probably not too many decades away. Will Google have to pay its own robots in the future (not necessarily with money)
by higherpurpose 12y ago
The day until robots have basic rights is probably not too many decades away. Will Google have to pay its own robots in the future (not necessarily with money) so as to not be considered a slave-owner? Will there still be "robot sweat-shops"? We'll have to see.
- gambiting 12y agoI would say that truly self-conscious robots are really decades(if not centuries) away,so I don't think we have to worry about that just yet. Robots working in factories probably won't need to have advanced intelligence, basic routines will work just fine, so "robot sweat-shops" is unlikely to be a thing.
- Majestic121 12y agoI don't think that there will be such a thing as a "robot sweatshop", because a sweatshop implies that you use people, or at least conscious beings. While I'm sure we'll be very advanced on the domain of AI in the next few decades, consciousness seems to be a very difficult goal to achieve in such a short time. And even if we manage to achieve it, and become able to give consciousness to machines : why would we give it to robots in factory?
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- yodsanklai 12y agoThe question of consciousness is an interesting one. If the machine can perfectly fake it has consciousness or emotions how can we tell it's not conscious? conversely, how do we know other humans are conscious and not just "pretending"?
- pjc50 12y agoOther way round; when the first robots are given "rights", there will still be humans toiling in sweatshops. (This comment is satire, I think)
- drzaiusapelord 12y agoI think the assumption that intelligence is tied to consciousness, at least for tasks expected of robots, is pretty questionable. Is your smartphone a small sweatshop?