#robots

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If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.


Kevin J. Anderson


#build #had #insects #like #look

R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that all humans must be injured, contract illnesses and ultimately die. The future can only be averted for humans who are already dead. Ergo..." It took a dozen cops to subdue R-4, after his blood orgy in a department store (83 dead, none injured).


John Sladek


#robots #humor

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.


Norbert Wiener


#intelligence #robots #intelligence

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.


Arthur C. Clarke


#computers #diversity #robots #intelligence

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule


Donald A. Norman


#design

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.


Erol Ozan


#brain #computer #computers #computing #consciousness

Oh, people get used to so many things," said Vadesh, "if only they give them selves a chance.


Orson Scott Card


#human-nature #philosophical #robots #thrill #nature

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.


Isaac Asimov


#robots #conflict

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

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.


Karel Capek


#hold #instinct #life #live #more