Tag: slapmybot

Gabriel2052

Gabriel2052’s library of motor movements will know what I’m turned on by, his fingertips ghosting across the back of my neck with the right force-per-unit area. His motorized parts will know how to spread goosebumps across my skin, and his sensors will detect when my breath quickens in response. 

https://qz.com/1246712/im-building-a-robot-boyfriend-and-you-can-too/

Robots want bitcoin

“There is no isolation once you hack the robot you can disable all kind of safety.”

According to Apa, these vulnerabilities are especially dangerous because human workers have a certain degree of trust working side by side with these robots.

“These type of robots work in the factory alongside people because they are collaborative robots,” he said. “In this case the people trust and they don’t even use helmets.”

Apa said that some of these collaborative robots have enough strength to fracture a human skull.

Source: Hacked Retail Robots Can Assault Customers… | Motherboard

Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’

Sympathy for Janet on ‘The Good Place’

Rather, the present urgency, according to pop culture, is around this: Will advanced AI deserve human rights? Should we cut back on cursing out Siri as she gets savvier, or outlaw kicking the next generation’s Furby?

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It’s especially easy to empathize with Black Mirror’s digital ghosts because they are derived from real people. Yet in the show’s universe, too few people do empathize. Which raises the dark question of how much worse people would treat entities that don’t so blatantly resemble their friends but still do have a rich, lively consciousness.