Re: New subject: robotic advances

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@satx.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jun 07 2004 - 20:05:39 MDT


At 05:33 PM 6/7/2004 -0700, Mike wrote:

>Sorry to break the 1-week layoff, but this was too interesting to not
>pass on:

Absolutely.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/interview/

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Will we ever see robots fighting against humans like in the sci-fi films?

I think we can say pretty definitively that as long as we're using these
Neumann-type computers there's no fear of that happening. For example, the
psychologist Carl Jung had a theory of the collective unconscious, which
stated that humans and animals were all connected on a fundamental
psychological level and became the basis for much if not all of the work in
psychology that followed it.

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Jung? Cutting-edge and foundational? Ye gods.

But what a nifty little gadget it is, to be sure.

Damien Broderick



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