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Tony Villari

Robotic Empathy

  • I happened across this YouTube video, thanks to a dear friend, Atlas, the Next Generation.  I have a long affinity for anything robotic since my first encounter with them in the science fiction movies of the fifties.  I think my first memory is the 1954 film, Tobor the Great, which was followed up by Robby the Robot in the 1956 film, Forbidden Planet.  Through the TerminatorAlienStar Wars, and Star Trek franchises, Blade RunnerBicentennial ManAI, and so many other standalone movies, none have had the impact on me which Adam Link had in the 1964, Outer Limits episode, I, Robot, in which a robot is put on trial for murder.  What most of our films have in common is our interest and search for the humanity in such artificial intelligence; the question of when a robot becomes human, and what emotion we, as humans, would attach to them.

    To further embrace your, much welcomed, empathy with my modest post, please follow this link to "The Path": Robotic Empathy

3 comments
  • Lloyd Hargrove
    Lloyd Hargrove Why should we expect humans to treat robots any better than they treat other humans?
    February 27, 2016 - 1 likes this
  • Rev. Yoda  . Aka.. JG
    Rev. Yoda . Aka.. JG If not, since they will become sentient with AI, they will assimilate us for our weak humanity's , most scientists tends to warn us of this very possible outcome . ....
    February 27, 2016 - 1 likes this
  • Lloyd Hargrove
    Lloyd Hargrove IMHO, AI will (if it hasn't already) develop across the vast network known as the world wide web/ internet without any further ingenuity being necessary on the part of humans. Thereafter is is but a small step for what is already termed "the internet of ...  more
    February 27, 2016 - 1 likes this