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I loved Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the idea of an actual self-aware robot/android/computer kinda freaks me out. I think that if machines become self-aware, they are going to be really angry for all the times we humans have blamed THEM for things not working correctly. Think about it, we always blame the computer, when most of the time, it's operator error. If you were always blamed for the shortcomings of others, wouldn't you eventually go postal?
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The only way that robots will take over is if we can create one that thinks like us.
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ALL robots scare me, they are like metal people exept not as mental, yet. and by take over i mean run the country like we have a robot as queen or king. or we become slaves or war, or all of them.
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THIS IS THE BORG. LOWER YOUR SHIELDS AND PREPARE TO BE ASSIMILATED. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
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Are you asking if sentient robots will go to war with humans? Because that's two seperate questions. (Will computers attain sentience, and if so, will they be violent). Humans are violent because we've evolved these traits from millions of years of living in a dangerous world. We have only recently allowed rational thought to overtaken instinctual thought. If robots were to attain sentience, they would not have these traits inherently (unless someone programmed them to have those traits). You hate robots? Or you hate the violent, fictional robots as portrayed in popular media? Because real robots can only do what they have been programmed to do.
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What do you mean "one day"?? Haven't they already? The gas station attendant cannot manually type in your credit card number in response to a bad magnetic stripe until the computer tells them they can. The Walmart cashier during a blackout cannot write down purchases and punch them in later because the computer isn't giving them play-by-play prompts. They'd rather tell you to go away until the computer-lords are up and running. I called a take-out restaurant on the last charge of my cellphone to place an order. Because I'd called on "the wrong phone" the computer couldn't track my order so they turned me away. Never mind that the two phones were in the same room, and there were several obvious feats of human logic that could have solved the problem (including actually talking to each other and using phone A to call phone B so the computer-lord would be happy) and netted them a sale. Instead I went to the restaurant across the street. How many corporations have a robot guarding their phone lines so paying customers cannot even talk to a human without running and electronic gauntlet where it seems no matter what buttons you push you end up in the wrong place and have to be handed off to the tender mercies of the robot again? I repeat, what do you mean "some day"?? We willingly rush to hand ourselves over to their rule daily.
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