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Title: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 14, 2011, 06:50:18 AM
http://www.androidscience.com/theuncannyvalley/proceedings2005/uncannyvalley.html

I have heard about this before on science podcasts and radioshows. It seems that we prefer robots that look like us and that act within a certain realm of human behaviours and emotions. We, however, are completely freaked out when the robots start becoming sufficiently humanlike. We still don't know why this is. Does their closeness to humanness mean that they look and feel fake and thus inauthentic and thus untrustworthy or does their closeness to humanness lead us to feel uncomfortable about what it means to be human? Or possibly something completely different?

This raises the question. Will we ever get a Bishop* - like android? Do we want one? I've brought up the issue of CGI and the progressive requirements of CGI to keep it believable. This poses a non-verbal Turing test. Can a machine be built which will be able to convince a deaf man that it is human without communicating? Also, do we want to build a synthetic floorwasher that looks like a Guatemalan lady with a bucket rather than looking like a pint size Zamboni Ice Machine?

If we could build a human-identical robot which we intend to be percieved as human would we want to? Can we make it so human-like that it won't freak us out? Isn't it really the case that we would prefer to be assured that the machine is a machine and that the thing you think is a human really is.

In his recent show on the English language Stephen Fry went to a Newcastle based call center. (for the americans in Newcastle they speak Geordy which is a iconic regional dialect spoken by X-Factor's Cheryl Cole and Dr Who's Catherine Tate) The experience in Britain is that the Geordy dialact is percieved as most likable, presumably since the dialect identifies the speaker as a working class northener of a kind which is associated with being nice and lovable (while they remain sober). People who call to complain about their gas bill react best to a person they can assume will sympathise with them.

On the other side we are annoyed by people with Bangalore accents claiming to be name "Jared".

I think we will see through whatever tricks robot designers will use to make humanlike robots. Just like we can see through old special effects. I think the best and most productive human interaction robots will be like the Riace bronzes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace_bronzes) and display hyper real human traits rather than truely real human traits.

What does this mean? Well I think it means the future will be full of cute robots that I will want to destroy and I will have only a little bit less than the pathetic attempts at pure humanlike robots that I will decry as half ass attempts at getting it right. To put it bluntly, who wants a sex-bot with an a-cup and halitosis?

QuoteThe Uncanny Valley
Masahiro Mori
1970
Energy, 7(4), pp. 33-35
Translated by Karl F. MacDorman and Takashi Minato

Valley of familiarity
There are mathematical functions of the form y = f(x) for which the value of y increases (or decreases) continuously with the value of x. For example, as the effort x increases, income y increases, or as a car's accelerator is pressed, the car moves faster. This kind of relationship is ubiquitous and easily understood. In fact, it covers most phenomena, so we might think that this function can represent all relations. That is why people are usually upset when faced with some phenomenon it cannot represent.

Climbing a mountain is an example of a function that does not increase continuously: a person's altitude y does not always increase as the distance from the summit decreases owing to the intervening hills and valleys. I have noticed that, as robots appear more humanlike, our sense of their familiarity increases until we come to a valley. I call this relation the "uncanny valley."

Recently there are many industrial robots, and as we know the robots do not have a face or legs, and just rotate or extend or contract their arms, and they bear no resemblance to human beings. Certainly the policy for designing these kinds of robots is based on functionality. From this standpoint, the robots must perform functions similar to those of human factory workers, but their appearance is not evaluated. If we plot these industrial robots on a graph of familiarity versus appearance, they lie near the origin (see Figure 1). So they bear little resemblance to a human being, and in general people do not find them to be familiar. But if the designer of a toy robot puts importance on a robot's appearance rather than its function, the robot will have a somewhat humanlike appearance with a face, two arms, two legs, and a torso. This design lets children enjoy a sense of familiarity with the humanoid toy. So the toy robot is approaching the top of the first peak.

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidscience.com%2Ftheuncannyvalley%2Fproceedings2005%2FImages%2Fmoriuncannyvalley.gif&hash=b0876f3d8cb676e4a59bb73ac51cb895d5bdbdfc)
Fig. 1. [Note: This is a simplified version of the figure appearing in the Energy article. -Trans.]

Of course, human beings themselves lie at the final goal of robotics, which is why we make an effort to build humanlike robots. For example, a robot's arms may be composed of a metal cylinder with many bolts, but to achieve a more humanlike appearance, we paint over the metal in skin tones. These cosmetic efforts cause a resultant increase in our sense of the robot's familiarity. Some readers may have felt sympathy for handicapped people they have seen who attach a prosthetic arm or leg to replace a missing limb. But recently prosthetic hands have improved greatly, and we cannot distinguish them from real hands at a glance. Some prosthetic hands attempt to simulate veins, muscles, tendons, finger nails, and finger prints, and their color resembles human pigmentation. So maybe the prosthetic arm has achieved a degree of human verisimilitude on par with false teeth. But this kind of prosthetic hand is too real and when we notice it is prosthetic, we have a sense of strangeness. So if we shake the hand, we are surprised by the lack of soft tissue and cold temperature. In this case, there is no longer a sense of familiarity. It is uncanny. In mathematical terms, strangeness can be represented by negative familiarity, so the prosthetic hand is at the bottom of the valley. So in this case, the appearance is quite human like, but the familiarity is negative. This is the uncanny valley.

I don't think a bunraku puppet is similar to human beings on close observation. Its realism in terms of size, skin, and so on, does not approach that of a prosthetic hand. But when we enjoy a puppet show in the theater, we are seated far from the puppets. Their absolute size is ignored, and their total appearance including eye and hand movements is close to that of human beings. So although the puppets' body is not humanlike, we can feel that they are humanlike owing to their movement. And from this evidence I think their familiarity is very high.

From the above maybe readers can understand the concept of the uncanny valley. So in the following I consider the relationship between movement and the uncanny valley.

The effects of movement
For creatures, including robots, movement is generally a sign of life. As shown in Figure 1, adding movement changes the shape of the uncanny valley by exaggerating the peaks and valley. For the industrial robot, the impact of movement is relatively slight because we see it as just a machine. If it stops moving, it just stops working. But if programmed properly to generate humanlike movements, we can enjoy some sense of familiarity. Humanlike movement requires similarity of velocity and acceleration. Conversely, if we add movement to a prosthetic hand, which is at the bottom of the uncanny valley, our sensation of strangeness grows quite large. Some readers may know that recent technology has enabled prosthetic fingers to move automatically. A commercially available prosthetic hand made with the highest technique was developed in Vienna. To explain how it works, the intention to move the forearm, even if missing, produces current in the arm muscles that can be detected by an electromyogram. So the prosthetic hand detects the current by means of electrodes and amplifies the signal to activates a small motor in the prosthetic arm to move the fingers. This hand can move in a way that causes some healthy people to feel uneasy. If you shook a woman's hand with this hand in a dark place, the woman must be shocked!

Since these effects are apparent for just a prosthetic arm, the strangeness will be magnified if we build an entire robot. You can imagine going to a work place where there are many mannequins: if a mannequin started to move, you might be shocked. This is a kind of horror.

In the World Expo held in Osaka this year, the robots displayed a more elaborate design. For example, one robot has 29 artificial muscles in the face to make humanlike facial expressions. According to the designer, laughing is a kind of sequence of face distortions, and the distortion speed is an important factor. If we cut the speed in half, laughing looks unnatural. This illustrates how slight variations in movement can cause a robot, puppet, or prosthetic hand to tumble down into the uncanny valley.

Escape by design
We hope to design robots or prosthetic hands that will not fall into the uncanny valley. So I recommend designers take the first peak as the goal in building robots rather than the second. Although the second peak is higher, there is a far greater risk of falling into the uncanny valley. We predict that it is possible to produce a safe familiarity by a nonhumanlike design. So designers please consider this point. A good example is glasses. Glasses do not resemble the real eyeball, but this design is adequate and can make the eyes more charming. So we should follow this principle when we design prosthetic eyes. We can create an elegant prosthetic hand ? one that must be fashionable. Artist who makes statues of Buddhas created a model of a human hand that is made from wood. The fingers bend at their joints. The hand has no finger print, and it assumes the natural color of wood. But we feel it is beautiful and there is no sense of the uncanny. Maybe wooden hand can serve as a reference for future design.

The significance of the uncanny
In Figure 1, a healthy person is at the top of the second peak. And when we die, we fall into the trough of the uncanny valley. Our body becomes cold, our color changes, and movement ceases. Therefore, our impression of death can be explained by the movement from the second peak to the uncanny valley as shown by the dashed line in the figure. We might be happy this line is into the still valley of a corpse and that of not the living dead! I think this explains the mystery of the uncanny valley: Why do we humans have such a feeling of strangeness? Is this necessary? I have not yet considered it deeply, but it may be important to our self-preservation.

We must complete the map of the uncanny valley to know what is human or to establish the design methodology for creating familiar devices through robotics research.



Copyright (c) 2005 Karl F. MacDorman and Takashi Minato. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2.

* if you don't get this reference you don't belong in this conversation
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ideologue on November 14, 2011, 07:16:42 AM
Quote from: VikingTo put it bluntly, who wants a sex-bot with an a-cup

Hi, I'm Ideologue.  You might remember me from such posts as "I Don't Remember Referring to Them As 'Labor' Camps" and "My Cock is the Fourth Panzer Army."
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 07:18:46 AM
Is there really anything to back up the whole "uncanny valley" thing?
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 14, 2011, 07:21:42 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2011, 07:16:42 AM
Quote from: VikingTo put it bluntly, who wants a sex-bot with an a-cup

Hi, I'm Ideologue.  You might remember me from such posts as "I Don't Remember Referring to Them As 'Labor' Camps" and "My Cock is the Fourth Panzer Army."

I thought it was the US 8th Army that entered Korea.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 14, 2011, 07:23:34 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 07:18:46 AM
Is there really anything to back up the whole "uncanny valley" thing?

It isn't mentioned here but there have been significant studies examining the reactions of people to human-like robots. Unfortunately much of the litterature is in Japanese and doesn't get translated. My japanese isn't good enough for academic papers.

So either take my word for it or google "human like robots" and "human robot interatctions" or whatever.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 07:25:46 AM
Are there any real numbers behind that graph?
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 14, 2011, 07:30:14 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 07:18:46 AM
Is there really anything to back up the whole "uncanny valley" thing?

Well, claymation figures tend to be much creepier looking than cartoons.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 14, 2011, 07:31:22 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 07:25:46 AM
Are there any real numbers behind that graph?

Yes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UncannyValley
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 08:18:40 AM
Well, if it's on TVtropes it must be true.  Jesus Viking, you were complaining about credulous people just the other day.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 08:27:34 AM
But looking at the talk page behind the Wiki page you directed me to shows that, no, in fact there are not any real numbers behind that graph.  There was no experiment to create data points on that graph.  It's just an a series of arbitrary lines with  words above it.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Josquius on November 14, 2011, 09:35:02 AM
The uncanny valley stuff is true, you can experience it for yourself even if you watch for example The Polar Express. I'm pretty sure I remember reading a few articles on it when I was in uni, couldn't tell you the authors though.

I don't see why we would ever want to make fully human seeming robots. Robots are robots, that they are as good as humans but look different works.
Well...sex bots...but....
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Slargos on November 14, 2011, 04:45:05 PM
The really interesting question will be how massive the hand wringing will be when child-sized sex-bots hit the marketplace.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 14, 2011, 05:13:50 PM
Quote from: Slargos on November 14, 2011, 04:45:05 PM
The really interesting question will be how massive the hand wringing will be when child-sized sex-bots hit the marketplace.

Or a related question about how that be covered by the law against cartoon depictions of children in porn.

I think the broader question is worth considering as well--would life like sex bots completely upset gender dynamics?
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:22:33 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 14, 2011, 05:13:50 PM
Quote from: Slargos on November 14, 2011, 04:45:05 PM
The really interesting question will be how massive the hand wringing will be when child-sized sex-bots hit the marketplace.

Or a related question about how that be covered by the law against cartoon depictions of children in porn.

I think the broader question is worth considering as well--would life like sex bots completely upset gender dynamics?

I think that in order for that to happen, the sex bots would have to be able to pass the Turing Test - otherwise they hardly replicate actual sex with a person, as opposed to simply screwing a toy. 

Problem with that is, if they could pass the Turing Test, would they be satisfied to remain sex bots?  :D
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 14, 2011, 05:25:51 PM
I don't know.  I've had sex with some women that probably couldn't pass the test during sex.  :hmm:
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 14, 2011, 05:27:15 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:22:33 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 14, 2011, 05:13:50 PM
Quote from: Slargos on November 14, 2011, 04:45:05 PM
The really interesting question will be how massive the hand wringing will be when child-sized sex-bots hit the marketplace.

Or a related question about how that be covered by the law against cartoon depictions of children in porn.

I think the broader question is worth considering as well--would life like sex bots completely upset gender dynamics?

I think that in order for that to happen, the sex bots would have to be able to pass the Turing Test - otherwise they hardly replicate actual sex with a person, as opposed to simply screwing a toy. 

Problem with that is, if they could pass the Turing Test, would they be satisfied to remain sex bots?  :D

To be honest, much regular sex between living breathing humans is mere assisted masturbation, which is what sex-bots would do. Strangely enough sci-fi keeps suggesting that sex-bots will be subject to emotional responses from their users. I'd suggest that they would have exactly the same effect as porn. For the same reason I think that the emotional response to the killer death robot sent from the future to keep you alive as in T2 felt by the young john connor is equally silly.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:36:06 PM
Wow. :huh:

I would have expected that most people's sex lives is better than that ...

Anyway, I simply can't imagine that sex with no emotional or affectionate feelings whatsoever would ever be a commonly acceptable substitute for sex with.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Admiral Yi on November 14, 2011, 05:45:54 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:36:06 PM
Anyway, I simply can't imagine that sex with no emotional or affectionate feelings whatsoever would ever be a commonly acceptable substitute for sex with.

People get emotional and psychological pleasure from playing video games.  Why not fucking a bot?
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 14, 2011, 06:00:27 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:36:06 PM
Wow. :huh:

I would have expected that most people's sex lives is better than that ...

Anyway, I simply can't imagine that sex with no emotional or affectionate feelings whatsoever would ever be a commonly acceptable substitute for sex with.

hmmm... it seems you missed out on getting drunk partying and having emotion free casual sex while at university...
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Warspite on November 14, 2011, 06:22:59 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:36:06 PM
Wow. :huh:

I would have expected that most people's sex lives is better than that ...

Anyway, I simply can't imagine that sex with no emotional or affectionate feelings whatsoever would ever be a commonly acceptable substitute for sex with.

Well, for a start a sex bot won't expect me to have croissants and orange juice ready for it in the morning. That's a big plus.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 06:24:13 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 14, 2011, 06:00:27 PM
hmmm... it seems you missed out on getting drunk partying and having emotion free casual sex while at university...

Even then part of the excitement was that some hot chick was willing to do it with you. Remove that, and totally emotion-free sex would pall, I'd think - at least for a significant number of folks.

That said, if sex bots were a-okay with a lots of guys, that would be good for the rest of us - if we were on the market as it were - just as long as chicks were not into them, too.  :D
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 06:25:47 PM
Quote from: Warspite on November 14, 2011, 06:22:59 PM
Well, for a start a sex bot won't expect me to have croissants and orange juice ready for it in the morning. That's a big plus.

Yeah, but imagine your sex bot would get mighty cranky if you don't have numerous D-cells available in the morning.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ideologue on November 14, 2011, 06:26:22 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:22:33 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 14, 2011, 05:13:50 PM
Quote from: Slargos on November 14, 2011, 04:45:05 PM
The really interesting question will be how massive the hand wringing will be when child-sized sex-bots hit the marketplace.

Or a related question about how that be covered by the law against cartoon depictions of children in porn.

I think the broader question is worth considering as well--would life like sex bots completely upset gender dynamics?

I think that in order for that to happen, the sex bots would have to be able to pass the Turing Test - otherwise they hardly replicate actual sex with a person, as opposed to simply screwing a toy. 

Problem with that is, if they could pass the Turing Test, would they be satisfied to remain sex bots?  :D

Probably.  I don't think the Turing test is necessarily a proxy for consciousness; I'm sure it's not a proxy for agency or "free will."
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ed Anger on November 14, 2011, 06:28:34 PM
Sex robots? Nerds.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 06:34:41 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2011, 06:26:22 PM
Probably.  I don't think the Turing test is necessarily a proxy for consciousness; I'm sure it's not a proxy for agency or "free will."

Well, considering it isn't proven that people have "free will' ...  :D

Point here is that unless a sex bot has some element of choice, or at least a convincing illusion of same (*see note concerning whether people have 'real' choice above), it is never going to adequately replicate for the user the satisfaction of a human relationship, because part of that satisfaction is the ego-gratification that being chosen provides.

Of course, if they have a convincing illusion of choice, what's the point? A hot sex-bot is never going to choose the sort of loser that would want a sex-bot.  :lol:
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Tonitrus on November 14, 2011, 06:35:00 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 14, 2011, 06:28:34 PM
Sex robots? Nerds.  :rolleyes:

The current generation hasn't been exposed to the lesson from "Cherry 2000".  :(
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 14, 2011, 06:38:38 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 06:24:13 PM

Even then part of the excitement was that some hot chick was willing to do it with you. Remove that, and totally emotion-free sex would pall, I'd think - at least for a significant number of folks.

That said, if sex bots were a-okay with a lots of guys, that would be good for the rest of us - if we were on the market as it were - just as long as chicks were not into them, too.  :D

As a personal aside I have found that, even with the blank emotionless sex, that if there isn't a positive desire on her part I quickly lose interest. So, her desire is a necessary condition for me to carry on. I don't have to be in love or even like her, I just have to be convinced that she wants it as well.

From my point of view the sex-bots can't have desire. They are neither agents nor persons (look up the phrases in a philosophy dictionary) That's why I think sex-bots can't work. The uncanny valley means that the robot is either fake or creepy.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ed Anger on November 14, 2011, 06:41:10 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on November 14, 2011, 06:35:00 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 14, 2011, 06:28:34 PM
Sex robots? Nerds.  :rolleyes:

The current generation hasn't been exposed to the lesson from "Cherry 2000".  :(

Great, that movie just flashed in my mind.  :mad:
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: jimmy olsen on November 14, 2011, 09:24:20 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 14, 2011, 05:27:15 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:22:33 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 14, 2011, 05:13:50 PM
Quote from: Slargos on November 14, 2011, 04:45:05 PM
The really interesting question will be how massive the hand wringing will be when child-sized sex-bots hit the marketplace.

Or a related question about how that be covered by the law against cartoon depictions of children in porn.

I think the broader question is worth considering as well--would life like sex bots completely upset gender dynamics?

I think that in order for that to happen, the sex bots would have to be able to pass the Turing Test - otherwise they hardly replicate actual sex with a person, as opposed to simply screwing a toy. 

Problem with that is, if they could pass the Turing Test, would they be satisfied to remain sex bots?  :D

To be honest, much regular sex between living breathing humans is mere assisted masturbation, which is what sex-bots would do. Strangely enough sci-fi keeps suggesting that sex-bots will be subject to emotional responses from their users. I'd suggest that they would have exactly the same effect as porn. For the same reason I think that the emotional response to the killer death robot sent from the future to keep you alive as in T2 felt by the young john connor is equally silly.
There are plenty of men alive today with emotional attachments to their car or motorcycle so I don't think that's a silly prediction at all.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 10:48:55 PM
Quote from: Malthus on November 14, 2011, 05:36:06 PM
Wow. :huh:

I would have expected that most people's sex lives is better than that ...

Anyway, I simply can't imagine that sex with no emotional or affectionate feelings whatsoever would ever be a commonly acceptable substitute for sex with.

Viking is weird.  I think years of drilling oil wells has given him strange concept of sex.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 14, 2011, 11:01:44 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 10:48:55 PM
drilling oil wells

:perv:

Their orgasms are pretty lucrative too.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ideologue on November 14, 2011, 11:48:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 14, 2011, 11:01:44 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 14, 2011, 10:48:55 PM
drilling oil wells

:perv:

Their orgasms are pretty lucrative too.

Those chicks are just pissing, dude.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 15, 2011, 12:03:48 AM
That metaphor doesn't work as well.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: FunkMonk on November 16, 2011, 08:16:38 PM
Sex robots? pffft whatever

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.tvtropes.org%2Fpmwiki%2Fpub%2Fimages%2Fweird_science-show_8512.jpg&hash=02231877b4c8bc93cdc53ab212e9db617556ee6d)
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 16, 2011, 08:21:42 PM
Quote from: FunkMonk on November 16, 2011, 08:16:38 PM
Sex robots? pffft whatever

(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.tvtropes.org%2Fpmwiki%2Fpub%2Fimages%2Fweird_science-show_8512.jpg&hash=02231877b4c8bc93cdc53ab212e9db617556ee6d)

Your image didn't come up for me.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Caliga on November 16, 2011, 09:28:27 PM
I want a sex bot that looks like Chelsea Charms.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ed Anger on November 16, 2011, 09:35:53 PM
I want the Janet Reno one
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ideologue on November 16, 2011, 09:44:23 PM
I want Young Queen Victoria and Old Queen Victoria.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ed Anger on November 16, 2011, 09:46:16 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 16, 2011, 09:44:23 PM
I want Young Queen Victoria and Old Queen Victoria.

:lol:

And Prince Albert in a can.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Capetan Mihali on November 16, 2011, 09:46:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 16, 2011, 09:35:53 PM
I want the Janet Reno one

Waco and Elian Gonzalez add-ons cost extra. 
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Siege on November 19, 2011, 10:45:53 PM
The world will ned before such aberrtion happens.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Neil on November 20, 2011, 11:36:21 AM
Quote from: Viking on November 14, 2011, 05:27:15 PM
To be honest, much regular sex between living breathing humans is mere assisted masturbation, which is what sex-bots would do. Strangely enough sci-fi keeps suggesting that sex-bots will be subject to emotional responses from their users. I'd suggest that they would have exactly the same effect as porn. For the same reason I think that the emotional response to the killer death robot sent from the future to keep you alive as in T2 felt by the young john connor is equally silly.
People have emotional responses to their smartphones.  Martinus cares more about his iPad than he ever could another human being.  You need to think more.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 20, 2011, 11:53:29 AM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 11:36:21 AM
People have emotional responses to their smartphones.

Yes, and they have clinical diagnoses.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Neil on November 20, 2011, 12:30:23 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 11:53:29 AM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 11:36:21 AM
People have emotional responses to their smartphones.
Yes, and they have clinical diagnoses.
:rolleyes:

You're pretty fucked up.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 20, 2011, 12:47:06 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 12:30:23 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 11:53:29 AM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 11:36:21 AM
People have emotional responses to their smartphones.
Yes, and they have clinical diagnoses.
:rolleyes:

You're pretty fucked up.

Me? I don't have objectaphilia.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Neil on November 20, 2011, 12:51:27 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 12:47:06 PM
Me? I don't have objectaphilia.
You think that everyone who doesn't think the way you do has a mental illness.  You're so narrowminded, you make Marty look like a sophisticated cosmopolitan.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 20, 2011, 04:11:28 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 12:47:06 PM


Me? I don't have objectaphilia.

That's not really a word.  The word you are looking for is paraphilia.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:29:55 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 12:51:27 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 12:47:06 PM
Me? I don't have objectaphilia.
You think that everyone who doesn't think the way you do has a mental illness.  You're so narrowminded, you make Marty look like a sophisticated cosmopolitan.

I wasn't aware you were so in tune with the contents of his mind?
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Eddie Teach on November 20, 2011, 04:33:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:29:55 PM
I wasn't aware you were so in tune with the contents of his mind?

Marty's an open book.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:34:47 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 20, 2011, 04:33:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:29:55 PM
I wasn't aware you were so in tune with the contents of his mind?

Marty's an open book.

I opened Joyce's Ulysses and that made no sense whatsoeve. Come on Leon Blum is a Jewish French Socialis!!
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Neil on November 20, 2011, 05:52:42 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:29:55 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 12:51:27 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 12:47:06 PM
Me? I don't have objectaphilia.
You think that everyone who doesn't think the way you do has a mental illness.  You're so narrowminded, you make Marty look like a sophisticated cosmopolitan.
I wasn't aware you were so in tune with the contents of his mind?
אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Iormlund on November 20, 2011, 05:59:46 PM
Any sex decent sex bot will generate a deeper emotional connection than a random street hooker.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: garbon on November 20, 2011, 07:19:32 PM
I don't really see why there couldn't eventually be robots that we could think were human.. All the first post suggests is that it'll take a lot of effort to create such a robot.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Razgovory on November 20, 2011, 07:28:31 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:34:47 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 20, 2011, 04:33:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:29:55 PM
I wasn't aware you were so in tune with the contents of his mind?

Marty's an open book.

I opened Joyce's Ulysses and that made no sense whatsoeve. Come on Leon Blum is a Jewish French Socialis!!

You just lack imagination.  You think too much like an engineer.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Viking on November 20, 2011, 07:40:36 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 20, 2011, 07:19:32 PM
I don't really see why there couldn't eventually be robots that we could think were human.. All the first post suggests is that it'll take a lot of effort to create such a robot.

Thats what the article said. I suggested that humans would be good enough to spot a fake regardless how good they make it.
Title: Re: Robots that freak us out.
Post by: Ideologue on November 20, 2011, 08:11:12 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 05:52:42 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 04:29:55 PM
Quote from: Neil on November 20, 2011, 12:51:27 PM
Quote from: Viking on November 20, 2011, 12:47:06 PM
Me? I don't have objectaphilia.
You think that everyone who doesn't think the way you do has a mental illness.  You're so narrowminded, you make Marty look like a sophisticated cosmopolitan.
I wasn't aware you were so in tune with the contents of his mind?
אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה

Heh.  I recognized the logo.