Category: robotics

U.S. Army Worries Humanity Is Biased Against Deadly Cyborg Soldiers Because Of Movies Like Terminator

The United States army fears people are afraid of robots because of fictional stories, so they will work on ways for its citizenry to see robots differently.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/12/us-army-worries-humanity-is-biased-against-deadly-cyborg-soldiers-because-of-movies-like-terminator/

Super Bowl LIII and Trump’s Re-election Campaign

Last Sunday, I watched the Super Bowl. I was more fascinated by the commercials than the game itself because I thought it was boring. But if you like punts, then that was the game for you! I was intrigued by the commercials because before the Super Bowl, on this blog, I made a prediction that the Super Bowl would feature things pertaining to the #MeToo movement. I don’t really think the commercials did, although there were ads, such as one featuring Serena Williams, empowering women and the Patriots played and won the game in Atlanta. There’s an interesting connection, because the Patriots usually play in Gillette Stadium and before the game, Gillette released an ad about toxic masculinity.

I believe most of the ads on Super Bowl Sunday of 2019 were mostly an exploration of the present and portends for the future. Some ads featured Amazon’s Alexa. Many people have made Alexa a member of their household and many people will in the near future. A lot of them dealt with robotics and the rise of artificial intelligence. For instance, TurboTax’s ad featured a robot child that frightened me! And another ad that frightened me was for The Handmaid’s Tale. I got frightened with this ad since it starts upbeat but then turns sour and it reminded me of how one of my first posts on this blog was a prediction. I predicted Trump will get reelected in 2020 and afterwards that is when things will turn worse in the United States. So I wondered if the advertisement was also a warning for my country.

This ad is even more interesting to me now that the big game is over because I did some digging and found some inspiration used for the commercial. The commerical is similar to a political ad I’m presuming Ronald Reagan used for his re-election campaign. Now, no doubt, Trump is an admirer of Reagan. He took his “Make America Great Again” slogan from Reagan and I trust presidential approval ratings on the internet more than I do from the television news networks. Some of them online are currently showing approval for Trump has increased. This is because of his recent State of the Union address. In the address, he did a great job of galvanizing his supporters, traditionalists, and recruiting new supporters by criticising New York’s new abortion law and by saying America would never be a socialist country. This address seems to be the prelude to how his 2020 campaign will go. In it, he also boasted about the economy. If he is taking a page out of Reagan again for 2020 undoubtedly he will do this some more and ask America, as Reagan did, why they would ever want things to be back to the way they were, but maybe afterwards, we will perhaps be yearning for those days if I am correct.

The Right to Bear Robots

Right now in this country there are some persons wanting reforms concerning the distribution of guns or guns to be banned entirely. It is possible in the future, the same thing may happen with robots! Some people in the future will prefer to commit crimes, such as robbing a bank, using robots because it is safer than them committing the crime themselves. If robots get banned because of this, some people will always find ways to circumvent laws though; maybe laws are indeed made to be broken. So, it’s possible in the future too some people will 3D print or use other means to make their own robots, like some people do with guns today!

The Language of Robots

I am always fascinated by technology, sometimes feel lust for new pieces of tech I see. I know, obviously, some of technology’s future lies in artificial intelligence, so I have begun reading about the subject. I saw pictures online of paintings done by robots of human faces recently and believed they looked like something out of a horror movie! The faces they painted were simultaneously scary and blurry like most pictures of Bigfoot or flying saucers! They reminded me of this time when I had a problem with a printer and how when I went to print a paper with it, splotches of ink covered and ruined the paper! It seemed to me as if the robots just threw paint on the canvas to see what would land and stick. So, robots are not the best painters in the world!

The reason why I believe why robots are so terrible at painting is because of the way artificial intelligence communicates. Artificial intelligence communicates by the use of quantitative data, the use of numbers and statistics, instead of qualitative data, which interprets and describes and uses emotion. What this shows is robots can look at a painting done by someone like Picasso or Van Gogh, but can not describe why it is great, or how it impacts them personally. Humans are still more creative and expressive!

I kind of wonder now if the use of quantitative data instead of qualitative data by artificial intelligence is why so many people, like Elon Musk, feel paranoid about the future of robotics. It makes sense. If a robot feels no emotion because it uses quantitative data, then there may be nothing stopping them from hesitating to make the horrific and dangerous decisions some people are afraid to make!