Are you worried about robots

[Grays Babylon 1875 1,243]

Replacing your wifes dildo in the bedroom, to gratify her sexually, after intercourse...

or taking your job?

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

My neighbour has a robot lawn mower and a robot vacuum cleaner. 

[Ramandu 336]

Robots no. A fair few smart people are worried about AI developments though. Before the end of this decade we may have general AI, as per the predictions made here:

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3479/date-weakly-general-ai-is-publicly-known/

Skynet to follow shortly after, obviously.

I can't bring myself to worry about it though, it seems to crazy to believe. 

[tutankamun 380]

7 minutes ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

Replacing your wifes dildo in the bedroom, to gratify her sexually, after intercourse...

or taking your job?

You have to be.

I’m no Luddite. As an engineer I like modern tech, but the way things are going humans will soon be surplus to requirements.

Except for the elites of course…

[CCB III 693]

Worried about the cunts making them and what for. 
 

Anything made in mans image/with mans input has the recipe for disaster. Fuck knows, though. 

[Grays Babylon 1875 1,243]

5 minutes ago, CCB III said:

Worried about the cunts making them and what for. 
 

Anything made in mans image/with mans input has the recipe for disaster. Fuck knows, though. 

These cunts with Alexa want slotted likes. 

Absolute nonsense. 

[CCB III 693]

4 minutes ago, Grays Babylon 1875 said:

These cunts with Alexa want slotted likes. 

Absolute nonsense. 

If you've got a smart phone you're fucked. 
 

We're over reliant. 

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

Man has always made tools to make work easier. A robot lawn mower is just an advanced scythe. 
 

[tutankamun 380]

We are the carbon they want to reduce 

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

The problem is that people base their instincts towards robots on how they have been represented in science fiction.

Aliens get the same bad press. 

 

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

2 minutes ago, tutankamun said:

We are the carbon they want to reduce 

See. That’s just Arthur C Clarke style hypothesising.

[CCB III 693]

2 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

The problem is that people base their instincts towards robots on how they have been represented in science fiction.

Aliens get the same bad press. 

 

A lot of science fiction was and is prophetic 

 

Philip K Dick used to think the FBI were watching him because of the shit he'd write about, years after his death they confessed they did. 

Every right to be fearful of anything made by man that we're willing to hand control over to 

 

 

 

[Bad_Mobby 4,739]

No

[Zeus 1,565]

No

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

12 minutes ago, CCB III said:

A lot of science fiction was and is prophetic 

 

Philip K Dick used to think the FBI were watching him because of the shit he'd write about, years after his death they confessed they did. 

Every right to be fearful of anything made by man that we're willing to hand control over to 

 

 

 

Most of it has not turned out to be prophetic though. 

Phillip K Dick? I bought an old book of his short stories only last year. 

[manboobs109 3,045]

Robophobia. Cracking tune.

[CCB III 693]

4 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Most of it has not turned out to be prophetic though. 

Phillip K Dick? I bought an old book of his short stories only last year. 

Good book, that. 
 

A lot of it has turned out to be true!

[tutankamun 380]

11 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

Most of it has not turned out to be prophetic though. 

Not yet…

[tutankamun 380]

27 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

See. That’s just Arthur C Clarke style hypothesising.

But they’re actually doing it now 

[CCB III 693]

 

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

43 minutes ago, tutankamun said:

Not yet…

fair point ( unless they give dates [like 1984])

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

52 minutes ago, CCB III said:

Good book, that. 
 

A lot of it has turned out to be true!

I’m sure he has more than one book of short stories, Consi. 

[Redforever86 1,785]

1 hour ago, Sooper-hanz said:

The problem is that people base their instincts towards robots on how they have been represented in science fiction.

Aliens get the same bad press. 

 

Robots have actually been more positively represented in science fiction than negatively, aliens yes negatively but not quite as unequal as you’d think.

 

We all loved E.T

[Sooper-hanz 2,348]

7 minutes ago, Redforever86 said:

Robots have actually been more positively represented in science fiction than negatively, aliens yes negatively but not quite as unequal as you’d think.

 

We all loved E.T

In general they have both been portrayed as ‘ the baddies’. As you said there are of course exceptions. 
Id like a robot that cleaned up the house and when you got in had your dinner ready for you. Also wasn’t averse to sucking your ding dong (but didn’t have a robot cock.)@CCB III
 

[manboobs109 3,045]

I remember some tits on here were trying to claim those hoover things were robots.

Fucking idiots.

[Poodler 3,341]

I like the little robots that bring your food to the table. 
 

will be long dead before anything meaningful happens with AI. 
 

hopefully get to see the much fabled flooding of Holland though before death 

[tutankamun 380]

28 minutes ago, Poodler said:

I like the little robots that bring your food to the table. 

 

 

‘Little’ robots? What about the nano bots, the ones you can’t even see?
They can fly round your body like in the film ‘Innerspace’

[Poodler 3,341]

https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2021/11/bot-a-breakthrough-tiny-nanobots-can-deliver-chemo-straight-to-cancer-cells/
 

 

pretty cool. Like the thing in the matrix that goes down Neo’s BB

Edited August 6 by Poodler

[manboobs109 3,045]

Not robots though are they. Just fancy syringes. 

[tutankamun 380]

16 minutes ago, Poodler said:

https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2021/11/bot-a-breakthrough-tiny-nanobots-can-deliver-chemo-straight-to-cancer-cells/
 

 

pretty cool. Like the thing in the matrix that goes down Neo’s BB

Haha.

This is the ruse . “They will cure cancer”

In reality you know they will be used for nefarious purposes by governments and terrorists (is there any difference?)