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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

Quadruped robots in China are increasingly used for hazardous tasks

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Quadruped robots in China are increasingly used for hazardous tasks

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Robots in China are increasingly used for tasks like patrolling underground tunnels and waste management in challenging environments. China produced 73% of the world's industrial robots last year.
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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Better than some guys foot rotting off due to direct contact with sewer sludge

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      They don’t have feelings, they’re machines

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          Can confirm they do not having feelings and if they do then we’ve made a absolutely massive breakthrough in gen AI

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          I talk to my toaster and all other objects in my house. Sometimes I thank them for the work that they do. I want them to like me.

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            Reminds me of Steve the pencil from community: https://youtu.be/uAwSVOlOgH8

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              I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

              • yewtu.be
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              • yt.artemislena.eu
              • piped.video
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        And even if these robots were in any form “conscious” it would be on the level of an insect, probably a lot lower.

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      If we had the ability to make a robot that had opinions about what work it did, we’d also have the ability to make it love that work beyond anything else.

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          It’s a fun and interesting ethical dilemma, and also very funny.

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        I don’t think that actually follows. We’d certainly be in a position to practice and refine the process, but not necessarily guarantee that it’s working until we give the (apologies for the Harry Potter reference, but I think it apt) Robot House Elf a pistol and turn around. Also, ethics.

        Luckily the simple solution is to just not make a sapient slave race, robotic or otherwise. Sapience isn’t necessary for an autonomous tool.

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          My point of view is that in humans and animals in general, emotions are largely a chemical response in the brain. We might not fully understand how those processes interact, but we do know that certain chemicals cause certain feelings, and that there is a mechanism in the brain governing emotion that is notionally separate from our ability for rational thought.

          I am willing to concede that it might be possible for a sufficiently complex computer to accidentally or in a way not entirely within our understanding to develop the capacity for rational thought in a way that we would recognise as sapient, or at least animal level intelligence.

          I am not willing to concede that such a computer could develop a capacity for what we recognise as emotion without it being intentionally designed in, and if it’s designed we necessarily need to understand it. This happens in fiction a lot because it’s more compelling to anthropomorphize AI characters, not because it’s particularly plausible.

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      Workplace injuries and work related disability will plummet if we can replace laborious work with robots.

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      Now that I think about it, robots shouldn’t resemble humans or animals, as they’d certainly be anthromorphized otherwise

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    Okej the one with wheels was awesome. Feels like the obvious evolution of these “dogs”.

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