Comments on: Talking Heads... of the Robotic Kind http://rlr.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/talking-heads-of-the-robotic-kind/ We're ALL Rich Rosen, but some of us are more Rich Rosen than others... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:45:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Misanthropic Scott http://rlr.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/talking-heads-of-the-robotic-kind/#comment-80 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:12:23 +0000 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2008/11/26/talking-heads-of-the-robotic-kind/#comment-80 In the book <a href="http://www.bestwebbuys.com/9781400095438" rel="nofollow">Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean</a>, one of the minor topics the author discussed was some history of robot-human interaction. They had to not only teach the robot to recognize things like pauses, restarted sentences, and repeated words, but also had to teach the robot to say Um during pauses in its own speech. It turns out that without the pauses, we start repeated commands, thinking that the robot didn't get it. The Um lets us know the robot is "thinking". On your main topic, I am not worried. I think we will go extinct long before we manage to make self replicating robots that take over from us. We should worry about, and try to solve the real issues of our own survival before we consider the machine world. Just my $10.02 (since I'm incapable of keeping an opinion down to only $0.02). In the book Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, one of the minor topics the author discussed was some history of robot-human interaction. They had to not only teach the robot to recognize things like pauses, restarted sentences, and repeated words, but also had to teach the robot to say Um during pauses in its own speech. It turns out that without the pauses, we start repeated commands, thinking that the robot didn't get it. The Um lets us know the robot is "thinking".

On your main topic, I am not worried. I think we will go extinct long before we manage to make self replicating robots that take over from us. We should worry about, and try to solve the real issues of our own survival before we consider the machine world.

Just my $10.02 (since I'm incapable of keeping an opinion down to only $0.02).

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