"Three Laws of Robotics" 1) A robot may not injure a human or allow a human to come to harm through inaction; 2) A robot must obey human orders unless they conflict with the First Law; 3) A robot must protect its own existence, unless that conflicts with the First or Second Law-Isaac Asimov
It has dawned on me that we are living in an age of robots. Not the shiny retro Robby The Robot but the Skynet version. AI puts the AI into antisocial, the intelligence into the unintelligence. It’s increasingly hard to differentiate between what is real and what is Memorex, but could it be the T800 version from Terminator 2 Judgement Day?
I’ve seen self-drive cars in the flesh, I’ve witnessed delivery bots and drones in the sky, I’ve had long conversations with a droid and argued with an automaton.
Welcome to the age of the android.
Self-check outs, card readers, code scanners, Ocado and Deliveroo have changed the landscape, and at what cost? Human interaction is clearly the casualty.
But is AI a good thing? Some might say that it is, that it simplifies day to day tasks, that it gives us all more free time. But what do we all do with that free time; waste it, is generally the answer. More free time for scrolling clicking and creating content, which in itself feeds into the AI world. It’s a vicious circle.
We don't need more free time unless we know how we want to use that free time. If we consider reading a book, going for a walk, fixing one's bike, painting the spare room, having a couple of pints or starting to learn German as a good use of free time then at least that indicates a plan. But in this modern world it seems to me that free time is an issue, it forces one to make choices, it creates a situation where to do nothing seems like a waste, but doing nothing is in itself a decision to do something.
We won't go down the art route, that is to say, I am opposed to AI as a tool to create or supplant all art forms, let's keep them out of it.
Robot love anyone? Let's view them as enablers of our leisure rather than masters of our destiny. Let's treat them as our servants and not our masters, our helpers not our hinderers.
We are stuck with the robotic landscape so we better get our heads around what we can gain from our new electronic pals.
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