TheGraveKnight
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Post by TheGraveKnight on Jun 27, 2017 19:00:28 GMT
So if there's one thing all media likes doing it's giving robots emotion (heck even I did it with EXO in the Superhero RP). But two things that always cross my mind are if we would treat them equally, and how human could the robot be I.E feeling sadness, love, pain, guilt or emotions that are distinctively human?
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Post by BiologicalSomething on Jun 27, 2017 19:07:26 GMT
I personally think giving them emotion is a bad idea, as that would be playing god. And everyone knows we shouldn't play god.
unless its thrive of course xd play or be goat
But seriously, bad idea.
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Post by Aquos on Jun 27, 2017 19:10:05 GMT
As always, and this is proparly because of my religious bias, I think it's a bad idea to play God. We are only humans, after all. (I do still enjoy them in fiction, though).
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TheGraveKnight
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Post by TheGraveKnight on Jun 27, 2017 19:13:41 GMT
I personally think giving them emotion is a bad idea, as that would be playing god. And everyone knows we shouldn't play god. unless its thrive of course xd play or be goat But seriously, bad idea. If it was bad with Frankenstein, it would only be worse with robots. A lumbering corpse is one thing but a robot with emotions could be VERY dangerous as it has several advantages over a human (mainly durability and not having to worry about age) while possessing human skills (ingenuity, planning, invention and several others). |
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Post by crodnu on Jun 27, 2017 19:32:16 GMT
And you know, superhuman intelligence and access to all the human knowledge about everything.
Plus i can't see a good reason to do it, it doesn't seem like a very good use for a robot.
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Post by serialkiller🌴 on Jun 27, 2017 20:30:44 GMT
As a strong atheist I don't really get the concept of "playing god ". After all god is a magical creature that is above the law of science , something humans could never achieve . We shouldn't hold our progress back because of our role as "just humans " , I mean after all the species AND the environment define the niche .
I don't know if it's necessary to give a robot emotions because we'd have to treat them just like humans and couldn't use them as slaves anymore like we do now (at least that would be completely unethical) . However in a scenario where emotions would be useful I'd support it .
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Post by RoboTrannic on Jun 28, 2017 1:37:30 GMT
the real question is what benefit does it give
the only real one i can think of and its pretty major is a moral machine and even then that's questionable
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Post by shiny on Jun 28, 2017 1:59:30 GMT
"Playing God" is an outdated concept, as well as ill defined: what's different between giving our creations Human like emotions from other lifelike qualities we've already given them, such as the ability to reproduce?
Additionally, it's unlikely that we would be able to avoid some degree of emotions, whether Humanlike or not, if we keep advancing A.I. the way we have been.
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Post by Atrox on Jun 28, 2017 17:17:22 GMT
"Playing God" is an outdated concept, as well as ill defined: what's different between giving our creations Human like emotions from other lifelike qualities we've already given them, such as the ability to reproduce? Additionally, it's unlikely that we would be able to avoid some degree of emotions, whether Humanlike or not, if we keep advancing A.I. the way we have been. I love this response |
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Post by Aquos on Jun 28, 2017 17:23:03 GMT
I guess we can agree to disagree. Just for clarification, I don't think God is going to come down and smite us or anything. I honestly dont think that God, assuming He exists, would a flying Belgium about us creating robots. I just think it's morally wrong to play God. I personally believe this world isn't ours, we just happen to live in it. Regardless of any divine entities that may or not exist. That's the main reason I think it's moraly wrong to create life in a lab. Although I, of course, respect any different opinion.
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Post by mitobox on Jun 29, 2017 6:30:29 GMT
Figured I might as well throw my 2 cents in.
I'm sure a few of you are aware of the multiple close calls during the Cold War, when one side was about to unload its nukes on the other (due to it thinking the other side did the same, for one reason or another), and the ony thing standing between us and not being born was the guy in front of the big red button saying "I'm not pressing this."
Because, see, there are two things we do: what must be done (orders), and what is right (choices).
Instinct's a bit of a gray area, and, in the context of this thread, it could be a robot's programming, but that's beside the point.
Personally, I picked the "unsure" option. A machine is fast and efficient, and ones driven by their own consciences could wind up being the worst killers in all history. But pity be on a world where the mindless machines believe our extinction is what must be done, without mindful ones to decide saving us is what is right.
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Post by rhulyon on Feb 19, 2018 12:06:38 GMT
I think emotions are needed in orther to archive sentience. I don't think we should give them in the same level as a human thought as they are adjusted to survive in the nature and evolutionary heuristics get outdated pretty soon. But in orther to live in society you need emotions (or a similar system that allows you to interact with it in a healthy way) if not you are forward a grey goo scenario
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Post by QuantumCrab of '18 on Feb 19, 2018 12:50:23 GMT
Look, if a robot was created to have emotions, that could lead down a very dangerous path. The one reason the creation of advanced AIs is not a cause for concern however, is that it would find no reason to live, and would destroy itself.
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