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Robot Dramas: Autonomous Machines In the Limelight On Stage and In Society
aarondubrow writes: We're entering an era where we'll increasingly coexist with robots and other intelligent machines — some of which may look like us. Not only is there a growing number of industrial robots (about 1.5 million today), there are 10 million Roombas in our homes, porter-bots in our hospitals and hotels, social robots in our nursing homes and even robot spectators at baseball games in Japan, tele-operated by remote fans.
Theater is not an arena that we typically associate with robots, however, artists, musicians and producers are often early adopters and innovative users of emerging technologies. In fact, robots got their name from the 1920 play, R.U.R., by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek. An article in the Huffington Post describes a panel discussion at the National Academy of Science in June that featured the producers of three recent plays that starred robots. The plays highlight our robot anxieties, while offering new visions for human-robot interactions in the future.
Theater is not an arena that we typically associate with robots, however, artists, musicians and producers are often early adopters and innovative users of emerging technologies. In fact, robots got their name from the 1920 play, R.U.R., by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek. An article in the Huffington Post describes a panel discussion at the National Academy of Science in June that featured the producers of three recent plays that starred robots. The plays highlight our robot anxieties, while offering new visions for human-robot interactions in the future.
She has a lot more Dramas!
It makes me wonder, though. Can you really say a robot is an "actor"? Doesn't that require having an idea of a self that you're purposefully not being in the moment?
A must read: The Darfsteller by Walter M Miller Jr. Tells of an aging ex-actor in an age of robotic performers who gets to play one last time when a key 'character' breaks down.
here is some related information on Robotics http://www.googletechinfo.com/...
[...] robot spectators at baseball games in Japan, tele-operated by remote fans.
Um, those are for the Hanwha Eagles in Korea, not Japan. Confirm by clicking the link to the BBC article.
They mention Cadillac's self-driving car, recently demonstrated to lawmakers in Washington. Cadillac is confident enough now to let members of Congress ride in the thing as it drives from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon in traffic. That's impressive. There's video, but it's all chopped into short pieces for short attention span TV viewers. I'd like to see an uncut half hour of automatic driving in traffic.
The great struggle of this century will be the increasing irrelevance of human workers. There is barely a job in existence that isn't to some degree being replaced by electronics and machines. Teacher? ABCmouse/MOOC. Fast food worker? Automatic soda-jerk machine. Accountant? Quickbooks/turbotax.
As jobs are 'botted' out of existence, employment will reach a break point where no one will even dare utter the phrase "get a job" What then, for our economic models? Will we allow those few who do work a godlike power over others, to live as kings among starving peasants? Will we change our lifestyles to ones of great leisure? Will we seek fulfillment in other endeavors? Can we equitably share the wealth when 40...50...90% of the work is done by microchips? Will owners of robots become all-wealthy? will they then be overthrown?
How do we handle This blessing/curse?
Now they have removed the only thing that ties drama to reality. Having to deak with existing Deux Ex Machina in modern drama was bad enough. Now we have a whole new genre, which will resemble cop dramas. We will have "robocop dramas". I for one do not welcome robocop dramas.
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Do I have to be the one to note that we don't have any intelligent machines? None of them have any more of a mind than a toaster. I don't think there's an AI out there that can even approximate the intelligence of a cockroach.
This is just random nerd click-bait although, at least it's nominally "news for nerds" for a change.
Going to get in there before anyone else:
http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/All_My_Circuits
http://theinfosphere.org/All_My_Circuits
I wouldn't go calling Roombas robots, they're fairly stupid... That Samsung NaviBot that's cleaning my house is far creepier, with its camera figuring out the layout of the house....
Inside Edward Snowden’s Life as a Robot
Automata.
I am getting into FPV flying with multirotors and planes and I have to say there is something extremely addictive about telepresence, there's nothing like soaring down the side of a mountain with a glider and camera/Tx while sitting on a chair drinking a beer.
Telepresence rocks.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
The article confuses the terms autonomous and intelligence Ã" they are not interchangeable Industrial robots that follow pre-determined, repetitive movements or roombas that bump themselves around a floor are not intelligent devices. Adaptive, self-learning artificial intelligence is decades away by even the most optimistic futurists. Thus, we are not entering an age of intelligent machines.
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