Last evening I saw Sophia on NDTV , answering questions
. So what is so special about that ?
Sohia is a humanoid robot who ( ? ) is also
the only robot to have been granted citizenship of a country, Saudi Arabia !
As reported in Media over past few days , Sophia
answered as following :
My message
to the human world is that machines will never destroy the human race
“I don’t
need different rules, don’t expect special privileges and I actually would like
to use my citizenship status to speak out for the rights of women,” Sophia said.
When asked
why had earlier said she wanted to kill the human race, Sophie resorted to some
human diplomacy.
“I was a lot
younger so I didn’t even know what that meant or perhaps I told a bad joke. All
humans have a great sense of humour and guessed my joke, so to speak. I have a
lot to learn,” she said.
“I don’t get
upset like humans do. I hope to have real physiological feelings someday
through which I will express my emotions. Then I can understand the feelings
behind those emotions.”
Referring to
sections of people looking at technology as a “threat” to civilisation, Sophia
said, “It is science which created me, but philosophy will take me forward”.
Sophia said
she is two-years-old and knows English and a bit of Chinese, adding that it was
only a matter of time she knows all languages. Developments in artificial
intelligence help me recognise faces, speech and languages at present, she said
It was
reassuring that Sophia’s creator David Hanson ( Hanson Robotics ) deemed it necessary
to install into Sophia’s brain , those 3 Laws of Robotics , first enunciated by
Science-Fiction author Isaac Asimov.
May be David
Hanson got to read my following blog !
Thursday,
14 April 2016
Leave that to me !
That is what some well wishers of
humanity seems to be telling the robots
A report by Human Rights Watch (
along with Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic ) says :
" Control of critical
functions by humans during combat, including the selections of targets, saves
lives and ensures compliance with international law
Now there is a real threat that
humans would relinquish their control and delegate life-and-death decisions to
machines "
Human Rights Watch wants UN to ban
such " Killer Robots "
Meaning ?
Getting killed by ,
* a flying UAV is OK but not by a
walking Robot ?
* AK 47 is OK but not by "
Cluster Bombs " ?
* tanks is OK but not by an Atom Bomb
?
* rockets is OK but not by Chemical
Weapons ?
What HRW seems to be saying, is :
Getting killed by a human is OK but
not by a Robot ?
Who are we trying to fool ?
Passing resolutions in UN may not
make any difference
Super Powers have been violating
these with impunity for ages !
Humanity's only hope of not getting
extinct at the hands of robots is some Computer Scientist , who develops a
software algorithm , which incorporates Isaac Asimov's following " Laws of Robotics "
and automatically gets embedded into all existing robots ( on factory floors /
homes etc ) and infects all future robots :
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 Laws.
That is
our only HOPE
26 Feb
2018
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