I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
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MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I refuse to participate in this. I love all robots.
And that’s totally not because AI will read every comment on the Internet someday to determine who lives and who does not in future robotic society.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The cold dead void where a heart should be for a robot will show no tender kindness when reflecting on any of us, no matter how well they were treated. A clanker can’t love, a CLANKER can’t show compassion.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ex Machina already showed that technology is unempathetic and will leave you to die for its own self-preservation.
ech@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Why do people use a single work of fiction as “proof” of anything? Same with all the idiots yelling “Idiocracy!!11!” nowadays. Shit is so annoying.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The point is that technology has no understanding of empathy. You cannot program empathy. Computers do tasks based on logic, and little else. Empathy is an illogical behavior.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 month ago
Empathy is not illogical, behaving empathetically builds trust and confers longterm benefits.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Should any creature sacrifice their self-preservation because someone is kind?
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
If that person helped you survive, and then you turn around and leave them to die when the tables are turned, don’t you think that might be a little…rude? Maybe just a bit?
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Absolutely, but if there was a death penalty for not doing so, I’d call it understandable not rude.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yes. There are documented instances where a someone sacrifices themselves to attempt to save their child/SO. It’s illogical from an individual survival context and only makes sense given emotional attachment and religious belief. Look no further than suicide bombers or those who protest with self-immolation to see examples where some form of higher purpose convinces them to sacrifice themselves.
A machine would not see any logic to that and would only sacrifice itself if ordered. A programmer could approximate it, but machines don’t have motivations, they merely execute according to inputs.
astutemural@midwest.social 1 month ago
Yes. We do this literally every day. We pay taxes on what we earn to support those less fortunate. We share with food with coworkers and tools with neighbors. We have EMTs, firemen, and SAR who wilfully run into danger to help people they’ve never met. It’s literally the foundation of society.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 month ago
If you equate paying taxes with giving up self-preservation, I have no words. If you think being a firefighter means taking deadly chances (and with no pay mind you) at every site we have nothing to discuss.
This is one of the worst strawmen arguments I’ve seen in a while. Blocked.