Humans Need Not Apply

[Foxscotch]

Understanding the brain alone will take a hell of a long time.

ya. but he's saying it's impossible

Also jobs like doctors cant be replaced entirely by robots. The surgeons hand and muscle memory is far superior to what any robot could ever do. Besides, I don't think anybody will trust his life to a robot anytime soon. Robots will simply make jobs easier, not replace human workers.

once you make a robot that will adapt to a specific person's insides, it would easily beat anything a human surgeon could do

speaking of which, I don't get the obsession with "hand-made" stuff, like car parts or something. for something like a human body, where the robot would have to change its behavior, that will probably take a while to come around
but with car parts and stuff? they're always the same. machines don't need to adapt. they have specific instructions, and will perform flawlessly, unlike a person. it doesn't make sense to me why you would value that over a machine's work

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[TheArmyGuy]

Everyone is acting as if this is a bad thing.

[Subpixel]

Just don't give the robots the ability to make decisions ...

AI is a horrible thing. If they eventually see the human race isn't necessary for them to do their thing, they will overthrow us.

But that won't happen.

[Bloody Mary]

I like robots. If we had the scientific ability to transfer someone's consciousness into a robot body, I totally would.

[HellHound]

ya. but he's saying it's impossibleonce you make a robot that will adapt to a specific person's insides, it would easily beat anything a human surgeon could do

speaking of which, I don't get the obsession with "hand-made" stuff, like car parts or something. for something like a human body, where the robot would have to change its behavior, that will probably take a while to come around
but with car parts and stuff? they're always the same. machines don't need to adapt. they have specific instructions, and will perform flawlessly, unlike a person. it doesn't make sense to me why you would value that over a machine's work

On hand-made parts: They are typically of higher quality of what a robot can do because humans have eyes, where most robots do not.

[IsaacKronenFaust]

I like robots. If we had the scientific ability to transfer someone's consciousness into a robot body, I totally would.

As would I, maybe. I just hope it'd actually be ME and not just a Robot with my personality and memories and stuff.

[ZombiLoin]

On hand-made parts: They are typically of higher quality of what a robot can do because humans have eyes, where most robots do not.

wot

[HellHound]

wot

Having a robot set up just to look for imperfections in a piece of wood for a car's dashboard is a bit of a waste, wouldn't you think?

[Jairo]

Having a robot set up just to look for imperfections in a piece of wood for a car's dashboard is a bit of a waste, wouldn't you think?

not if that's its express purpose

[Foxscotch]

On hand-made parts: They are typically of higher quality of what a robot can do because humans have eyes, where most robots do not.

robots don't need eyes, they already know exactly what is there and and they need to do with it
if they don't know exactly what's there, they find out, with any number of things that could possibly be considered eyes

Having a robot set up just to look for imperfections in a piece of wood for a car's dashboard is a bit of a waste, wouldn't you think?

quality control is still done by humans. that's reasonable
but a human checking for imperfections doesn't make something handmade, so idk why you're talking about it

[HellHound]

It'd be stupid to have a robot detect an imperfection, and then to have more robots set up ahead in case there are imperfections. It's a logistical nightmare.

[ZombiLoin]

Also jobs like doctors cant be replaced entirely by robots. The surgeons hand and muscle memory is far superior to what any robot could ever do. Besides, I don't think anybody will trust his life to a robot anytime soon. Robots will simply make jobs easier, not replace human workers.

What the forget is this stuff? A robot's "hand" does not tremble, you can literally bolt the loving tool into the robot "hand" (no more lost clamps post-surgery, yay), and you can program it to fit a specific human being. If the person is totally immobilized and you account for blood flow and other movements there is literally no reason why a human should be better than a robot.

It'd be stupid to have a robot detect an imperfection, and then to have more robots set up ahead in case there are imperfections. It's a logistical nightmare.

Says loving who. It's less of a logistical nightmare to do that with people, who can MAKE MISTAKES. If you did your bug-quashing, you have good designers, and you keep it maintained and supplied, a robot will NEVER MAKE MISTAKES.

[Qwepir]

On hand-made parts: They are typically of higher quality of what a robot can do because humans have eyes, where most robots do not.

After blockzillahead's posts I thought people simply couldn't get any dumber, and then this stuff happens.

[Taboo]

pretty much all discussion about "quality" is moot anyway because the precise robotics necessary to surpass even the most basic human work quality are far more expensive than manual labour

[ZombiLoin]

pretty much all discussion about "quality" is moot anyway because the precise robotics necessary to surpass even the most basic human work quality are far more expensive than manual labour

ZombiLoin: Hmm, let me build a robot and have someone program instructions to stamp out a product with input from the designer in a year, and that follows the instructions to a T.
ZombiLoin: Or train a loving machinist for 5 years to make an arguably inferior product with the possibility of him making mistakes and loving up the product.