#robots

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. ↗

— Karel Capek

#capacity #dear #glory #intellectual #mechanically

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#building #did #guy #him #i

Robots... I think that is a hot topic. ↗

— Bill Budge

#i #i think #robots #think #topic

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals. ↗

— Bill Budge

#also #follow #give #goals #ground

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#comes #like #our #out #professionals

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans. ↗

— Eric Liu

#fixed #humans #judges #monitoring #out

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#blocks #building #captured #deep #failure

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#army #expect #expense #great #i

When you are thirteen, you spend all your time imagining what it would be like to live in a world where you could pay a robot for sex. And that sex would cost a dollar. And the only obstacle to getting that sex would be making sure you had four quarters. Then you grow up and it turns out you do live in that kind of world. A world with coin-operated sexbots. And it's not really as great as you thought it would be. ↗

— Charles Yu

#sex #imagination

There are three things that robots cannot do," wrote Maxon. Then beneath that on the page he wrote three dots, indented. Beside the first dot he wrote "Show preference without reason (LOVE)" and then "Doubt rational decisions (REGRET)" and finally "Trust data from a previously unreliable source (FORGIVE). ↗

— Lydia Netzer

#love #regret #robots #forgiveness