It's one thing to prepare for the future's inevitable
robot uprising by building bigger and better weapons, but a pacifist might say the simpler approach would be to simply avoid conflict altogether -- by making our autonomous underlings cower in fear before us and our mighty emotions. That's the idea (sort of) behind some research taking place at the University of Calgary, which relies on an OCZ
Neural Impulse Actuator to monitor the stress levels of a real, live, human being. That stress level is then communicated to a poor, defenseless
Roomba, which was taught get out of the way and look busy whenever the wearer got angry. It's a long way from the three laws and saving the human race as a whole and all that, but this could play a major part in preserving future human/robot relations -- at least in the living room. [Warning: PDF read link]
[Via
Technology Review]
posted Mar 17th 2009 9:42AM
I can see myself doing faces just to see this thing running....I just need to know its reaction to 'laughing so hard that end up in the floor' emotion.
Alternatively, this technology could be used to create Annoyotron, the robot that seeks out people who are already annoyed and pushes them over the edge into a berserker rage. Of course, it would be accompanied by one or more Cambots to post the whole, er, interaction to YouTube.
Naturally, Annoyotron would have to be somewhat sturdy.
I laughed so hard at this man... I just imagine the camera poking some angry guy's face and just repeating "what's up, grumpy?"
My computers already have this skill, I think.
Perhaps they could advance technology to a point where the computer doesn't crash and stress out the smiley face above in the first place!
they should be afraid of me....i tend to be angry at small bastard robots anyway :|
hilarious comic
Wish they could teach my girlfriend to go cleaning each time I am stressed.
"which relies on an OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator to monitor the stress levels of a real, live, human being"
Wouldn't it be more effective if it could monitor my facial expression / tone of voice and understand my stress level that way? I can't imagine you would always want to wear your OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator every time the robot is around..
it's a first step.
what you're describing takes a whole other software layer that's unwarrented for a prototype.
Now I'm stressed!
As always, people who get angry when they see roombas acting busy get left in the cold.
Now then sense human emotion.
It's only a matter of time now...
Next they need to learn some self-defense and from there they can improvise I bet.
I just think it would be so funny... Like imagine this huge automaton armed with chain guns and missiles and shit... And then a pathetic little nerd gets angry and the huge robot just skips off in horror...
This could be what makes the robots kill us in the future. A scared snake bites right? Lots of animals attack when they are threatened. Thus, if the robots are scared of us they might get defensive and the next thing we know grandma's got a roomba jumping on her face.
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We are getting closer to being able to purchase a real Mouse Droid. EHHHHHHHH!!!
I've got to admit, Chewie growling at the mouse droid was the first thing I thought of...
Robots cower in fear. Scared robots calls for meeting. Communicates about how they should not take shit from fragile, bullet-scared humans. And, well you know...
Maybe if they'd already done this my Roomba would still be in one piece. Oh well, haha.
I was looking forward to extermination.
Humans are SO FREAKING ARROGANT. If we develop robots which are superior to us, they will almost certainly not take any of our sh*t - no matter what we think we've hardcoded into them.
We don't deserve to be the dominant species on Earth, and it wont be long before we aren't.
See, you started out good, but then you went wrong after that. Try again later.
If the human is happy, work doesn't get done. If the human is angry, work doesn't get done. This will be a mild robot takeover.
So I can get angry and Sylar-like the room with flash around me?
Quick, put this in the modelling robot, I want to see what she does then...
So they basically create a robot who will attack all of their professors? Nice!
GO FLAMES GO
I wonder what the robot's reaction would be if he caught you reaching climax during sex or masturbation.