http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/ Engadget Comments for The plot thickens: robot teachers to brainwash your children's children http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/if they ever develop artificial intelligence to the human level they would be able to think for themselves and may even come up with their own ideas and theories hence we could learn from them and maybe even used by them as slaves]]>Jul 19th 2009 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 20th 2009 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
(I smell movie.)

(Another one.)]]>Jul 19th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
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If they malfunction they can decide they want to be "more human" and sleep with the male students.

...maybe even the female students...]]>Jul 19th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
do you guys have kids...? with technology at their hands? how old? what do they do with it? i got a gameboy when i was 7, before that Lego was quite big, as well as dismantling toy cars...

do Apple have labs where they test their stuff on infants?]]>Jul 19th 2009 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/ ]]>Jul 20th 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
I, for one, DO NOT WANT TO LIVE THAT LONG!

I hope to die in my mid sixties, in a jet ski mishap..

Ah the future.]]>Jul 20th 2009 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
This here is just asking to take the responsibility out of the parent and place it in the hands of technology. We already have enough problems as-is where many parents are taking a "laissez-faire" or lackadaisical approach to parenting. We see those kind of children committing crimes, becoming drop outs in school, and many eventually become the problems of society.

Parents, first and foremost, should take the needed steps and be responsible of their own children and be a parent, a teacher and a guide.

We shouldn't rely on technology to do this for us. This technology is just asking for more trouble than its worth. It may eventually help the kids who don't have responsible parents, but without actual human contact, what would become of the child in the end?

It's like sending a child to boarding school making it look like the parent doesn't care at all. Our future would seem pretty dire where when one has a child, a toddler, they'll just send them to the next robotic, humanoid teacher to teach them.

What is the point of human-human interaction? Or, better yet, what becomes of the parent-child, teacher-student interaction?

This makes me lose even more faith in humanity where laziness and ineptitude is becoming the more accepted norm now. ]]>Jul 19th 2009 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
Just give them some ADD drugs, too. I'm sure they'll be fine... until they blow up their school... and then society tries to blame everyone but the kids and the parents.]]>Jul 19th 2009 6:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/You're taking it wrong. He didn't mention home schooling. He just said that the relationship between a parent and a child, and a teacher and a student, shouldn't be replaced by technology.

@paul34
"You can't seriously expect parents to take responsibility for their own children." I hope you're being sarcastic. If not, take a look at this site: http://firstthings.org/page/classes/fathering-classes]]>Jul 19th 2009 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 20th 2009 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
"I feel ya"
that was a terrible choice of words >_]]>Jul 19th 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 20th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
It's amazing the kind of kneejerk, non-thinking reactions you get when you mention loaded terms like 'robot'.]]>Jul 19th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
I say bring the electro-teachers on but cut-off the Internet, take away the calculators and make the kids read--a lot--a lot of classics and world history. Reading and math exercises that little-used organ--the brain. Video and audio do not.]]>Jul 19th 2009 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
This was in 1996.]]>Jul 19th 2009 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 19th 2009 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
So I don't find "robot" teachers to be that big of a deal. In fact, they could probably teach better than most government paid human teachers...if they manufacture enough of them.]]>Jul 20th 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/Jul 20th 2009 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
Great new World! ]]>Jul 20th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/19/the-plot-thickens-robot-teachers-to-brainwash-your-childrens-c/
But I'm sure the first thing the first AI will do is play nice and sneakily put sterilising agents in the drinking water so the human race can nicely be phased out without and nastiness, it's what I would do if I was them, and being mechanical they can wait for the effect to do its work.



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