#robots

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

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

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #else #everything #exterminate #factories

I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#about #being #doing #draw #everywhere

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions. ↗

— John Green

#get #hard #lot #money #movie

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

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

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#certainly #craft #emerging #generation #going

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#future #i #imaginative #into #like

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures. ↗

— Christian Smith

#human-nature #humanism #identity #personalism #personhood