Robots in Disguise

“morality”. Science fiction author Issac Asimov developed the Three Laws of Robotics10 in his 1942 short story Runaround, quoted below. 1. “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as…

Sometimes I question why Samra and I had kids. It was not a bad decision to starting dating in an operation room when we were 28. It was not a bad decision when got married at 30. It was not too bad of a decision to have a child at 33, but God decided it was a wonderful decision to give us twins. I mean that very sarcastically… At forty five I have two kids, a girl named Aria and a boy named Vivaan. They are constantly arguing about who’s better, who gets to fly the drone, who gets to wear the…

After reading the article “Google achieves milestone in driverless car technology development,” I agree that if there were to be driverless cars made and cars made to where each car can communicate with each other we are kind of losing our humanity. It just goes to show that with these cars being made our technology is changing tremendously. It can be a good and a bad thing for technology to change so much. But, if it changes so much that it no longer requires people to interact with others…

What The Future Holds On The Red Planet In 2095, the year that everything in our world seems to change every minute and every second. Living in a vast and different environment to what we humans used to live in. No longer the blue skies but dark and empty, no more smell of cheesy pizza that every child would go crazy for but the disgusting packaged and creamed up versions of green beans. What are clouds? When our world is now infested with nothing but twinkling lights from up above. The wind…

In the movie, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, by Steven Spielberg, there are two dominant groups of beings: flesh-and-blood humans, and nuts-and-bolts humans (also known as mechas, or mechanical people). In this dystopian future-world, humans produce and destroy mechas as they like because to some, a mecha is only a machine and cannot feel emotions or pain, even if they can show outward manifestations of emotions and pain. David is a mechanical child that is programmed to not have this…

Luckily, Thomas Frey writes a two-page quasi-extension to Alessandri’s article, Frey’s being entitled “Hi, I’m a Robot and I’m Here to Take Your Job.” Be sure not judge this book by its cover, Frey might surprise you. Like Alessandri, Frey agrees that human workers will no longer be needed as drivers in the transportation industry after autonomous vehicles begin to popularize. Frey states that “Driverless cars [...] will replace the need for drivers,” and an extension to Alessandri’s claim,…

The Fake-Loving Robot Pet Would it make sense for someone to love a robot so closely? In the article,” Love in the Time of Robots,” by Frank Mullin, is a list of why the robots do not add up to the benefits of a real-live pet. One reason why they do not add up is was programmed to show fake love and affection. Another reason is because it promotes laziness. Unlike real pets it must be cleaned up after and cared for all their needs. Then finally why the robot does not add up to the benefits…

The Robots have won In the article “Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work”, Craig Lambert the author gives his take on the rising term “shadow work”. According to an Austrian philosopher, Ivan Illich, “shadow work is referred to as unpaid labor.” Craig Lambert states in his article that the self-service checkout line at the grocery store is an example of self-service, as well as pumping your own gas at the gas station. Shadow work is becoming more and more popular as the innovation of technology becomes…

Conventional techniques restrict precision, flexibility, and control than is possible with robotic surgeons, so how can't a robot be trusted? Although trust is an emotional act which usually occurs between person to person, in this same act, a patient is exposing their vulnerabilities to a robot with the respect that a robot will not take advantage of their openness. The dissemination of robotic-assisted surgery have allowed for the impossible to be done, and that includes performing operations…

has ruled this February 17 on establishing some rules (not laws yet) to manage the upcoming robotics and artificial intelligence development in order to. Control liability to self-driven cars and people transportation drones. Liability around other robots and artificially intelligent entities that may learn and behave in unexpected ways (due to deep learning algorithms and other methods. Help with the transition between human workforce and an increasingly AI established workforce). Sylvain…