"happy suburban dad in a bright floral shirt enjoying a cocktail in the backward while B-1 races around mowing the lawn"
At first I thought that "backward" was meant to be "backyard" but then it occurred to me that The Backward is the place where our robot masters will confine the humans, primitive creatures incapable of upgrades and perfection. We will own nothing there, and we will be happy.
I have opinions about this topic! Oh, yes, I do. I'm 100% sure that there are no autonomous robots yet. Current AI (or what marketing departments have decreed the term "AI" to mean nowadays) isn't anywhere near being able to perform any activity that isn't precisely programmed beforehand or physically controlled remotely by a human. What this means is all the vids of robots doing flips or mixing drinks are misrepresentations. I'd be thrilled if someone could convince me otherwise, but I don't think the complexity of just walking into a room with humans and delivering a drink to a specific one has been "roboticized" yet. And don't get me started on The Three Laws!
Let's see... Skynet, HAL 9000, Colossus, Tobor... and then we have the massive Japanese inputs in the genre... no, not the Mecha because those are piloted. Like honkin' big suits of power armor with a driver.
I apologize, I can't not share this one:
A robot walks into a bar, the bartender looks it up and down and says, "Well, well, well, what'll it be for you?"
The robot replies "Man, it's been a tough day, I need to loosen up, how about a screwdriver?"
"happy suburban dad in a bright floral shirt enjoying a cocktail in the backward while B-1 races around mowing the lawn"
At first I thought that "backward" was meant to be "backyard" but then it occurred to me that The Backward is the place where our robot masters will confine the humans, primitive creatures incapable of upgrades and perfection. We will own nothing there, and we will be happy.
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
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rbj13
I have opinions about this topic! Oh, yes, I do. I'm 100% sure that there are no autonomous robots yet. Current AI (or what marketing departments have decreed the term "AI" to mean nowadays) isn't anywhere near being able to perform any activity that isn't precisely programmed beforehand or physically controlled remotely by a human. What this means is all the vids of robots doing flips or mixing drinks are misrepresentations. I'd be thrilled if someone could convince me otherwise, but I don't think the complexity of just walking into a room with humans and delivering a drink to a specific one has been "roboticized" yet. And don't get me started on The Three Laws!
This is exactly what our robot overlords want us to believe. ;)
Let's see... Skynet, HAL 9000, Colossus, Tobor... and then we have the massive Japanese inputs in the genre... no, not the Mecha because those are piloted. Like honkin' big suits of power armor with a driver.