Should we worry about the future of robotics? [ENDS: 29/06/11]

[Xegen]

Robots are basically just computers at the moment and therefore can't really be considered any more of a living object than for example a car or a piece of furniture can.

[Eoin247]

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[Andii]

Robots are basically just computers at the moment and therefore can't really be considered any more of a living object than for example a car or a piece of furniture can.

but we are talking about the future and should we be worried. Everyone needs to stop thinking about robots in the present and think about what the future may have in the terms of robotics. who knows what will happen. and no 1 can say what will exactly happen as a fact

[ApeBoy]

I've seen and watched many movies and shows about our future getting filled with robots to obviously improve our day to day lives. I've also seen how our present day robots can also do that. Now, have I ever worried about robots taking over the world with to high of a level of intelligence? No.

It seems pretty possible in a science-fiction based creation however in reality, it at all isn't very possible. Robots are not part of our natural cycle of evolution. Technically they are being evolved right now, as in, being upgraded however that isn't the exact same as them being naturally evolved. For something to sustain life on our planet, it needs to be able to fend with the environmental around it. Robots would just be a bunch of fancy metals being put together to make some kind of a machinery. Now these machines won't be able to even live without someone or something else giving it energy. Something or someone has to control that energy. It all ends up coming to us. We have to not only control but also provide the energy to the robots. Therefore, without us, they won't be able to live.

If they won't be able to live, I guess it'll be impossible for them to take over a much more divine living beings like you and me. The humans.

[,elaboratedolls]

I can see what you're saying about them taking human jobs, but they'll also be able to help out in jobs, whilst letting humans keep them. Like, testing whether or not a new building's been made. They could then re in act a scenario for instance, an earthquake, will the building be stable or not to survive the earthquake? The robot would then be able to play the role of the unfortunate human, unlike a crash dummy, do things most likely someone would do when trapped in a building in the middle of an earthquake and see if they would survive and the building receives critical damage or not.

So I'm not overly worried... for now.

[ROT]

no why would i be worried about robotics..... weirdos

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[Cosmic]

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