Replicants Soon A Reality? New Society Emerging With Humanoid Robots Says EU Robotics Expert
The 1982 film Blade Runner depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants – visually indistinguishable from adult humans – are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other “mega–manufacturers” around the world.
Humanity came one step closer in January to being able to replicate itself, thanks to the EU’s approval of funding for the Human Brain Project. Danica Kragic, a robotics researcher and computer science professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, says that while the prospect of living among humanoid robots calls to mind terrifying scenarios from science fiction, the reality of how humans cope with advances in robotics will be more complex, and subtle.
“Robots will challenge the way we feel about machines in general,” Kragic says. “A completely different kind of society is on the way.”
The Human Brain Project will involve 87 universities in a simulation of the cells, chemistry and connectivity of the brain in a supercomputer, in order to understand the brain’s architecture, organisation, functions and development. The project will include testing brain-enabled robots.
“Will we be able to – just by the fact that we can build a brain – build a human? Why not? What would stop you?” Kragic asks.
Nevertheless, consumer-grade robots are a long way from reality, says Kragic, who in addition to serving as Director of KTH’s Centre for Autonomous Systems, is also head of the Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab.
She says that in order for robots to offer some value to households, researchers and developers will have to overcome some daunting technological challenges. Robots will have to multitask and perhaps even be programmed to have emotional capacities programmed into their logical processes, she says.
“Based on the state of the environment and what it is expected of the robot, we want the outcome action to be acceptable to humans,” she says. “Many things that we do are based not just on facts, so should machines somehow have simulated emotions, or not? Either way, it is difficult to predict how that will affect their interaction with humans.”
Kragic sees robots making a largely positive contribution to society. But they will also present some novel problems for which humans have few reference points, such as what are the social norms for interacting with robots?
“There is a discussion about robot ethics and how we should treat robots,” Kragic says. “It’s difficult to say what’s right and wrong until you are actually in the situation where you need to question yourself and your own feelings about a certain machine – and the big question is how your feelings are conditioned by the fact that you know it’s a machine, or don’t know whether it’s a machine.”
Kragic predicts that one of the most popular consumer application of robots will be as housekeepers, performing the chores that free up time for their owners. They could also take over jobs that are repetitive, such as operating buses or working in restaurants. On the other hand, the robot industry will expand and create jobs, she predicts.
As for the possibility that one day robots will turn on us – Kragic is skeptical. “A robot rebellion – that’s the ultimate science fiction scenario, right? It’s worth placing some constraints on robots, such as (author Isaac) Asimov’s Three Rules of Robotics. At the same time, we have rules as humans, which we break. No one is 100 percent safe, and the same can happen with machines.”
Human rebellion against robots is far more likely, she says, pointing out that even as society’s attitudes toward automation evolve over generations, the debate over whether humans have the right to “play God” will likely continue. “There will be people for and against it,” she says. “But what is wrong with building a human? We have been raised in a society that thinks this is wrong, that this is playing God.
“Subsequent generations could have a different view.”
Robotics researcher Danica Kragic
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I think they’re making it harder than it needs to be. People will accept alot of stuff. As long as the robots don’t try to look like people, most people will be pretty accepting and pretty forgiving. CP3O or R2D2 no problem. But when you try to emulate real people, there will be a creep factor that will put alot of people off of the concept. ‘sides, why should we limit them to our form when they can be so much more?
The goal of the Elites is to be godlike, living forever. The most likely reason for o’bama to want to have more brain research done is that the elites want to have it known how to transplant their brains into young bodies.
It’s likely they’ll try to get rid of having kids, already trying to convince the world that a homosexual lifestyle is okay.
Also, o’bama’s brain research is likely to enable the elites to do brain control over the masses better, especially over a military force, which would then be given the upcoming “exoskeleton” so they’d essentially be an army of RoboCops.
It’s a “slippery slope” (and the Elite are INSANE)
Such people must be sent to most secured metntal health institutions.
Until now 99,99% of all technologyies weree and could be used against the people , innocent people. Because the machine the beste killing performance it is obviouse proven and there are no limits.
Think only about the huge pollution thanks to the techologycal advance. About pollution it is the same situation: it is limitless .
Therefore as in the all dystopian lunacy this is another ridiculouse advance iposed by the people that we call “scientific”, as long as their only goal is to eliminate de humanity and to perpetrate their mental disease beyound any limits of the nature it self.
They don’t plays “God”as falsely and arrogant in the most disguasting form of delusional hypocrisy and psychical pathology , they play just the insane rol of the absolute stupidity and idiocy.
Read please “Cyberiada”of Stanislav Lem and you will see how degenerate ridiculouse they behave, those unshamed and i-a-moral people without any empathy as their degenerate nazi-sociopaths who put them at work.
They play Satan at is best , they are the definition of the absolute distruction. Of course this is the only way that Universe “behave”in this continiouse Entropy after the Big Bang. This is the Hell as it is the meaning of the Entropy !
Get rid of those people and maybe our time as humanity will be the beter place to live and grow !