darogle.....you are too funny!

I have a couple of robots in my home (my husband builds them) but I have yet to teach either of them to make a pot of coffee. WHat we *do* have is remote controlled systems (although why I need to monitor the temperature in my home from Key West I dunno) and lots of video cameras. <sigh>

I'd love that transporter, though....so we can work in CA and keep our comfy home in OH. :D

/me begins work on hacking into osuche's video camera network... :D

Molt Taylor's was not the only flying car.

Look at the ConvAircar and the Mizar at Google.

<giggles> Sounds like a good opportunity for my husband to test his security expertise. ;)

PS ~ Let me know if you need any inside assistance. :D

Now hold on a second son! *in my bestest motherly voice* Be careful what you wish for!

I just saw a documentary on the possibility that future robots could someday take over the world. The techno possibilties of their ability to learn is beyond our comprehension. And you say...but, in order to take over the world thay would have to be able to reproduce! Well...according to this show I saw, that's not too far fetched. If they can learn to do everything else on their own, including the ability to learn...what's to stop them from cloning themselves? And...if they are/become smarter than us...what would they need us for? We'd be like the human's in "Planet of the Apes". Take away their "heart"...or power source, you say? They already have our knowledge of nuclear power...there is no stopping their evolution!

OK...who wants a robot now? And remember...all shiny metal is NOT necessarily gold!

But, I really would like some of those "7 course meal pills". Oh...wait!...or one of those thingy replicator dealie-do's on The Enterprise...where you talk to it and ask for a cup of Earl Grey tea or a filet mignon...medium/well, and...VOILA...there it be!

Just use Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics;

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. Arobot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Put these laws in its permanent operating system so that if removed the robot will not function, that way it will be clone into any new robots.

And the movie IRobot is not like the book.

What if the "head" robot says to himself, "Fuck Isaac Asimov and the boat he floated in on"...and bans Isaac's stuff from robotdom forever!

Hey! Stranger things have happened!

*giggle*

:bsflag: :nopics:

I just proposed the question...I didn't make it up...Oh...yes I did...NEVERMIND! LMFAO!

I've pondered the same question, I thought we'd all be bald and wearing glittery jumpsuits, sliding around in pnumatic tubes everywhere.

The AI takeover question is actually a serious one, Stephen Hawking for one has expressed concern - in some ways it's already true, banking investments are often run by huge derivitive programs delaing with billions of dollars, and when they make mistakes they can threaten the solvency of the whole system - Alan Greenspan was convicted of gold price fixing in the early 90's by the Swiss, he did it because derivitive programs had overexposed American banks to the point that if the price of gold had risen a few cents it would have wiped out every major bank in the country.

That's the kind of stuff to worry about right now, anything approaching an independently self aware AI is probobly quite a ways off, but ya never know.

Scarecrow

The Zero-eth Law, as proposed in the later robot books, changed the whole focus,

allowing robots to allow individual humans to be harmed for the good of the human totality.

Daneel Olivaw rules!

OMG...visions of the movie "The Demon Seed" with the horny computer who wanted to procreate with Julie Christie....


and he did!!! lol

Oldfart

R. Daneel was also telapathic and the Zero-eth law destroyed Giskard

Giskard was not as "evolved" or flexible as R Daneel.

He also didn't have the benefit of dealing with the Second Foundationers.

Daneel was not telepathic, he was an amazing brainwave analysis machine.

Sorry folks, later books from the I Robot series.