I can’t wait for robots to get here. It seems they have been promised since I was a kid and yet today we only have a few robots around and they are all expensive industrial ones for factories and the like.
Why is this? Where is my Rosie?
Well I think the answer is ‘still in the lab’ because our scientists are working too hard on creating a one size fits all robot and can’t get the thumbs right. A robot that can do the cleaning, the gardening and we can have sex with (If it is sex with something mechanical) This is not good.
We should not want our robots to do everything. We should want our robots to be specialists. A robot, that looks like a hoover cleaning up a bit, emptying itself, charging itself and moving on throughout the time when the house is empty. A robot that looks like a mosquito chasing and terminating bugs that are in the house or by the BBQ when it spots them. A robot that digs the garden around the veg and fruit and pulls up weeds only. A robot that scares the cats away from your garden but leaves your cat alone. A robot that looks like this when you want to have nookie but has little capability for thought outside suggesting new things to try.
The problem I see is that while we work on versatility that we don’t need we are missing out on making our lives much easier. The industrial robots don’t look like humans and don’t talk. They perform a single function only and they do that well. A robot that did nothing but clean hospitals for MRSA type bugs would save lives and need not be too complicated. Why does it need hands? Why does it need to walk? Why does it need to speak or to listen? A simple robot doing one simple task perfectly and as often as required that could save thousands of lives yet it is nowhere to be seen.
In addition we want to make sure that they are not programmable. Boot from ROM, updated manually as required a bit like firmware is now and with safety features not able to be overridden by programming so a nutter can’t just upgrade your code so your super sex toy starting biting instead of kissing. Don’t want that at all. No sirree.
When we do eventually make a robot that is exactly like a human in every way and is capable of rational thought what are we going to do when it says ‘Not tonight dear. My processor chips are overheating’ There will always be a bunch of namby pamby liberals out there pressing for you to go to jail for pressing the reset button and booting it up in safe mode.
Nope. Keep them simple. Specific tasks. No extra processing power and make them perform that role perfectly. What could be simpler? Good. I’ll expect my shirt ironing robot next year thank you.
Keeping things simple. Pt 3 Robots
I can’t wait for robots to get here. It seems they have been promised since I was a kid and yet today we only have a few robots around and they are all expensive industrial ones for factories and the like.
Why is this? Where is my Rosie?
Well I think the answer is ‘still in the lab’ because our scientists are working too hard on creating a one size fits all robot and can’t get the thumbs right. A robot that can do the cleaning, the gardening and we can have sex with (If it is sex with something mechanical) This is not good.
We should not want our robots to do everything. We should want our robots to be specialists. A robot, that looks like a hoover cleaning up a bit, emptying itself, charging itself and moving on throughout the time when the house is empty. A robot that looks like a mosquito chasing and terminating bugs that are in the house or by the BBQ when it spots them. A robot that digs the garden around the veg and fruit and pulls up weeds only. A robot that scares the cats away from your garden but leaves your cat alone. A robot that looks like this when you want to have nookie but has little capability for thought outside suggesting new things to try.
The problem I see is that while we work on versatility that we don’t need we are missing out on making our lives much easier. The industrial robots don’t look like humans and don’t talk. They perform a single function only and they do that well. A robot that did nothing but clean hospitals for MRSA type bugs would save lives and need not be too complicated. Why does it need hands? Why does it need to walk? Why does it need to speak or to listen? A simple robot doing one simple task perfectly and as often as required that could save thousands of lives yet it is nowhere to be seen.
In addition we want to make sure that they are not programmable. Boot from ROM, updated manually as required a bit like firmware is now and with safety features not able to be overridden by programming so a nutter can’t just upgrade your code so your super sex toy starting biting instead of kissing. Don’t want that at all. No sirree.
When we do eventually make a robot that is exactly like a human in every way and is capable of rational thought what are we going to do when it says ‘Not tonight dear. My processor chips are overheating’ There will always be a bunch of namby pamby liberals out there pressing for you to go to jail for pressing the reset button and booting it up in safe mode.
Nope. Keep them simple. Specific tasks. No extra processing power and make them perform that role perfectly. What could be simpler? Good. I’ll expect my shirt ironing robot next year thank you.