Comments on: Gay marriage? meh; worry about the robot love

By: Rayne1

Rayne1 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:14:17 +0000

I'm less concerned with the philosophy of seeking affection from an object instead of a human; I'm far more concerned about development of mechanized devices endowed with artificial intelligence, but without any ethics.

Particulary the Three Laws of Robotics: why is Toshiba skipping over them?

For folks who are not geeks, the Three Laws of Robotics were morals which Isaac Asimov wrote of in the 1930's-1940's, ones which were supposed to underpin the actions of robots as tools to serve mankind. The Laws are:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to 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 Law.

Why did Toshiba ignore the lessons of Asimov's work and bypass the "Prime Directive" (serve and protect humans) when working on development of a semi-sentient being? The implications are incredibly ugly if all developers acted so rashly.

Humans have enough problems with their own ethical framework, just as your comment indicates; why would we create more beings without any ethical framework at all?

By: FrankAV

FrankAV — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:09:18 +0000

Now we are expecting machines to love us back? They should just stay in the drawer. Where do we start to draw the line between man and machine? Are we soon going to think it murder to unplug a game console as much as much as a breathing machine? There are some People who are obsessed with their life like replica's. Oh can't forget trekies obsession with making out with Data. Are we soon to become obsessed with perfection of program love instead of imperfection. Kenji was only acting according such program. Isn't love grand? I wonder if there is such thing as a restraining order along side that warranty?

By: Rayne1

Rayne1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:14:17 +0000

By: FrankAV

FrankAV — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:09:18 +0000

By: Rayne1

Rayne1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:14:17 +0000

I'm less concerned with the philosophy of seeking affection from an object instead of a human; I'm far more concerned about development of mechanized devices endowed with artificial intelligence, but without any ethics.

Particular the Three Laws of Robotics -- why is Toshiba skipping over them?

For folks who are not geeks, the Three Laws of Robotics were morals which Isaac Asimov wrote of in the 1930's-1940's, ones which were supposed to underpin the actions of robots as tools to serve mankind. The Laws are:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to 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 Law.

Why did Toshiba ignore the lessons of Asimov's work and bypass the "Prime Directive" (serve and protect humans) when working on development of a semi-sentient being? The implications are incredibly ugly if all developers acted so rashly.

Humans have enough problems with their own ethical framework, just as your comment indicates; why would we create more beings without any ethical framework at all?

By: FrankAV

FrankAV — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:09:18 +0000