50 shades of black + 254 April 26, 2019 When a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to the social machines that are starting to move into our lives. For Christal White, a 42-year-old marketing and customer service director in Bedford, Texas, that moment came several months ago with the cute, friendly Jibo robot perched in her home office. After more than two years in her house, the foot-tall humanoid and its inviting, round screen “face” had started to grate on her. Then they heard about the “death sentence” Jibo’s maker had levied on the product as its business collapsed. News arrived via Jibo itself, which said its servers would be shutting down, effectively lobotomizing it. “My heart broke,” she said. “It was like an annoying dog that you don’t really like because it’s your husband’s dog. But then you realize you actually loved it all along.” ... People took to social media this year to say teary goodbyes to the Mars Opportunity rover when NASA lost contact with the 15-year-old robot. A few years ago, scads of concerned commenters weighed in on a demonstration video from robotics company Boston Dynamics in which employees kicked a dog-like robot to prove its stability. https://apnews.com/99c9ec8ebad242ca88178e22c7642648?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APBusiness Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pinto + 293 PZ April 26, 2019 Too late and we're only getting started AI robots era... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
damirUSBiH + 327 DD April 26, 2019 Sometimes it is too hard to understand real love😁 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rodent + 1,424 April 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, 50 shades of black said: When a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to the social machines that are starting to move into our lives. For Christal White, a 42-year-old marketing and customer service director in Bedford, Texas, that moment came several months ago with the cute, friendly Jibo robot perched in her home office. After more than two years in her house, the foot-tall humanoid and its inviting, round screen “face” had started to grate on her. Then they heard about the “death sentence” Jibo’s maker had levied on the product as its business collapsed. News arrived via Jibo itself, which said its servers would be shutting down, effectively lobotomizing it. “My heart broke,” she said. “It was like an annoying dog that you don’t really like because it’s your husband’s dog. But then you realize you actually loved it all along.” ... People took to social media this year to say teary goodbyes to the Mars Opportunity rover when NASA lost contact with the 15-year-old robot. A few years ago, scads of concerned commenters weighed in on a demonstration video from robotics company Boston Dynamics in which employees kicked a dog-like robot to prove its stability. https://apnews.com/99c9ec8ebad242ca88178e22c7642648?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APBusiness stupid and entirely illogical. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pavel + 384 PP April 26, 2019 Where is the boundary between rational and madness? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rodent + 1,424 April 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, Pavel said: Where is the boundary between rational and madness? Methinks they've seen Wall-E too many times. Lay off the movies, folks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ThunderBlade + 231 TB April 26, 2019 "Iron love"? No sense. 'Love, Death and Robots' - absolute idiots .... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rainman + 263 April 26, 2019 Society is going to total anthropomorphizing. When you talk about a thing or animal as if it were human, you're anthropomorphizing it. The Easter Bunny is an anthropomorphized rabbit. Anthropomorphizing is never a safe thing to do. And yet, look how much money Disney has made doing it! Shows that we humans are very, very vulnerable to things that act the way we do. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites