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I am put in mind of a half-remembered line from an Asimov story, about a robotic nanny: "Of course she is kind and caring. She cannot help but be: she is a machine, made so." If the designers of bioroids can design the brains and assemble the synapses of their products they can make them joyously willing to do work that humans disdain, even for subsistence wages, with no indentures or servitude required.
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09-29-2020, 07:40 AM | #32 |
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Furthermore, there have been a few cases of physical abuse by carers of their patients, so there might be a pressure to put more "trustworthy" carers in charge of vulnerable patients.
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09-29-2020, 07:42 AM | #33 |
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This could simply be that sufficiently advanced AI is perpetually 10 years away.
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09-29-2020, 07:58 AM | #34 | |
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If people are not able to create machines smarter than they are easily and directly and/or those machines can't make more machines even smarter than they are and then the software for the new smarter machines doesn't come together in a swift and efficinent manner.....well, you may end up with what are now mainframe capabilities in your smartphone without ever seeing the Singularity.
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09-29-2020, 08:04 AM | #35 |
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You do not need the Singularity to have an AI apocalypse, you just need AIs being given the wrong orders, especially if they do exactly what they are ordered.
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09-29-2020, 08:13 AM | #36 | |
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09-29-2020, 08:35 AM | #37 |
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You do need AIs though and something only 1 or maybe 2 notches beyond the current State of the Art isn't going to be given that much unsupervised capability.
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09-29-2020, 01:04 PM | #38 |
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Bioroids recently emancipated from ownership as property. They are everywhere because every industry used them for labor now they're struggling to define themselves.
Bioroids covertly built and used by an insidious amazon-esque bioware firm by the tens of thousands are discovered and freed. Society is struggling to adapt to their presence. Bioroids are differentiated by qualities that make them able to be seen as non-human, animal features, short height, no vocal speech, and a slightly evil society justifies their oppression. |
09-29-2020, 01:28 PM | #39 |
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The assumption in a lot of transhuman settings is that people will have loads of parahuman children yet bioroids are somehow less desirable is a bit odd. I just consider them to be part of the same phenomenon, biological variations of humanity (though I find bioroids much less threatening because of their sterility).
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