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Everyone Likes Robots... NOT!

ercoerco Posts: 20,255
edited 2015-03-18 10:50 in Robotics
Anti-robot crazies stage a demonstration at SxSW! :)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/14/sxsw-robot-ai-protest-artificial-intelligence/24777871

We need a BoeBot Peace Parade/Love-In.

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  • ValeTValeT Posts: 308
    edited 2015-03-15 20:48
    erco wrote: »
    Anti-robot crazies stage a demonstration at SxSW! :)

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/03/14/sxsw-robot-ai-protest-artificial-intelligence/24777871

    We need a BoeBot Peace Parade/Love-In.

    CAFNqczUUAAEy-d.jpg:large

    Its ironic that one of the guys in the picture is speaking on his phone while demonstrating against robots......
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,255
    edited 2015-03-15 21:00
    ValeT wrote: »
    Its ironic that one of the guys in the picture is speaking on his phone while demonstrating against robots......

    He's talking to Siri...

    More on this ill-conceived "movement" which doesn't know what to do next, now that it's had its 15 minutes of fame: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/drinking-coffee-with-stop-the-robots-sxsws-113716403609.html
  • lardomlardom Posts: 1,659
    edited 2015-03-16 07:07
    erco wrote: »
    He's talking to Siri...

    More on this ill-conceived "movement" which doesn't know what to do next, now that it's had its 15 minutes of fame: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/drinking-coffee-with-stop-the-robots-sxsws-113716403609.html
    Interesting that the "spokesman" is a computer programming major...
  • photomankcphotomankc Posts: 943
    edited 2015-03-16 08:47
    Just further proof that you can get the rebel-without-a-cause crowd to protest anything. Dihydrogen Monoxide included.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2015-03-16 11:46
    Even in the next several decades, few robots will use full AI to any significant degree. But most of the data infrastructure of the world, including tracking purchases, preferences, interests, infractions, employment histories, and other bits and pieces of personal lives, will. These people are tilting at the wrong windmill. The danger comes in the very devices (smart phones are an obvious example) that they couldn't live without, but are ignoring out of their own sense of convenience. "Hey, it doesn't bother me!" and therefore, should be of no consequence to anyone else.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,255
    edited 2015-03-16 14:46
    +1, Gordon and photomankc. Thus, this is more of a "rebel without a clue" crowd.

    Is "crowdblundering" a real word?
  • Martin_HMartin_H Posts: 4,051
    edited 2015-03-16 17:23
    When our new robot overlords arrive I know who's going to be on the naughty list.
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2015-03-16 17:40
    We need "Hug Your Robot!" T-shirts!!
  • Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL)Bob Lawrence (VE1RLL) Posts: 1,720
    edited 2015-03-17 03:25
    This is for the protestor's with the sun glasses on: LOL

    Kaenon Sunglasses: How They're Made

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kg9rxeoCYI
  • Mark_TMark_T Posts: 1,981
    edited 2015-03-17 06:58
    Do they not realize we are all meat robots?
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2015-03-17 07:01
    erco wrote: »
    Is "crowdblundering" a real word?

    +1 for "crowdblundering". It's a real word NOW!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,255
    edited 2015-03-18 08:38
    @Ken: Quick, while this topic is still hot: grab a dozen S2s and make a video of a robot demonstation outside Parallax. Have them all running a square pattern (figure 8 preferred) carrying "Robots Just Need Love & Batteries" kind of signs. That central pen hole is the perfect place to shove a sign pole.

    Go viral, Baby!
  • photomankcphotomankc Posts: 943
    edited 2015-03-18 10:50
    GordonMcComb wrote: »
    Even in the next several decades, few robots will use full AI to any significant degree. But most of the data infrastructure of the world, including tracking purchases, preferences, interests, infractions, employment histories, and other bits and pieces of personal lives, will. These people are tilting at the wrong windmill. The danger comes in the very devices (smart phones are an obvious example) that they couldn't live without, but are ignoring out of their own sense of convenience. "Hey, it doesn't bother me!" and therefore, should be of no consequence to anyone else.


    An excellent observation. People tend to be very easily misdirected to imagined worries while real problems go walking right under their noses.
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