{"id":14160,"date":"2014-01-25T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/?p=14160"},"modified":"2021-10-19T06:51:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:51:15","slug":"robotlove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/robotlove\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robots are going to take our <a title=\"Robots Are Coming To Steal Our Jobs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-25000756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jobs<\/a>! No, scratch that: Robots are going to take over the world! For decades people have been terrified of the coming <a title=\"10 Evil Robots\" href=\"https:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/10-evil-robots.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robot invasion<\/a>, foretelling human extinction by vilifying robot-kind and all robot advancements. This is ridiculous, fanciful, just plain nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>We should LOVE robots: the robot age should be heralded like no other! Bring on the robots! Bring on the <a title=\"Technosexual: One Man&#039;s Tale of Robot Love\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/technosexual-one-mans-tale-of-robot-love-367698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robot love<\/a>! Here are the Top Five Reasons Why We Should Love Robots:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>5.)\u00a0\u00a0 Google loves them!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you heard me right. You should love robots because Google loves them. How does that make sense? It makes sense because Google goes where the money is, where the intelligent design is and Google has recently put some <a title=\"Google Purchases Nest for 3.2 Billion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/1\/13\/5305282\/google-purchases-nest-for-3-2-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious money<\/a> into Nest, an intelligent design firm that makes smart home <a title=\"Google&#039;s Nest Acquisition Brings AI To The Smart Home\" href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/01\/14\/lets-talk-about-robots-googles-nest-acquisition-brings-ai-to-the-smart-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>. That may not sound like robots, but it is: smart objects are simply robots. In December, Google also bought <a title=\"Google Buys Boston Dynamics\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/google-buys-boston-dynamics-acquires-robots-play\/story?id=21233076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Dynamics<\/a>, a company that makes robot-looking robots, and scary ones at that. If Google is willing to bet big bucks on robots, you can be sure they are betting on a winner.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Google Buys Scary Military Robot Maker\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cj83dL72cvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4.)\u00a0\u00a0 This is not your mother\u2019s (or your grandmother&#8217;s!) AI.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial Intelligence has gotten a <a title=\"Artificial Intelligence No Longer A Four Letter Word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/01\/artificial-intelligence-longer-four-letter-word-even-win-oscar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bad rap<\/a>. It started in the 1980\u2019s when people had big imaginations and even bigger hopes for robot-kind. Movies like ET and Star Wars made us think human-like robots were only a year or two away. But robotic progress was slow, and early artificial intelligence was laughably stupid. \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u201d as a concept was sidelined, equated with all the other archaic, technological failures of the 80\u2019s. In the 90\u2019s, people snickered when researchers used the term in papers or speeches, so it was quietly retired. But the phrase is making a comeback, mostly because Artificial Intelligence (AI)\u00a0is starting to (finally!) <a title=\"How Machine Intelligence Is Evolving\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2012\/apr\/01\/ai-artificial-intelligence-robots-sautoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resemble<\/a> its namesake. Strides in recent AI are impressive: paired with emotional intelligence, robots are beginning to exceed the incredible early hopes we had for them.<\/p>\n<p>3.)\u00a0\u00a0 Robots aren\u2019t taking our <a title=\"Is A Robot Coming To Take Your Job?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0b9a5cce-81c8-11e3-87d5-00144feab7de?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F0b9a5cce-81c8-11e3-87d5-00144feab7de.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&amp;_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwebhostinggeeks.com%2Fblog&amp;siteedition=uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jobs<\/a>: they are taking the <a title=\"Robots That Do All of the Gross Jobs You Hate\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/8-robots-that-do-all-of-the-gross-jobs-you-hate-5357319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jobs no one wants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robots are <a title=\"Robots Will Take Our Jobs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2012\/12\/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">able<\/a> to do horribly boring, monotonous jobs exceptionally well, for longer periods of time than any human ever could and with no repetitive motion injuries! Robots can sift through vast amounts of data, making meaning of it in a way that would take humans years upon years. Robots clean our <a title=\"10 Robots With Dirty Jobs\" href=\"https:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/10-robots-with-dirty-jobs.htm#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">floors<\/a>, our <a title=\"10 Robots With Dirty Jobs\" href=\"https:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/10-robots-with-dirty-jobs.htm#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toilets<\/a>, explore the <a title=\"10 Robots With Dirty Jobs\" href=\"https:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/10-robots-with-dirty-jobs.htm#page=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sewers<\/a> and test for <a title=\"Unstoppable Robot Eats Landmines For Breakfast\" href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/unstoppable-robot-eats-landmines-for-breakfast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">land mines<\/a>: jobs we do not want to do.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s so bad about robots taking the jobs no one wants? Then humans can focus on what we do best: using our brains, our creativity, our ingenuity and our capacity for relationship. We will always outpace robots in these areas and should be confident that there will always be a place for us. In fact, robots may make it easier for us to do our jobs&#8211;our new, improved, more fulfilling jobs now that something else is cleaning our houses, monitoring our health and keeping us safe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14164\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/robotlove\/640px-picabot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14164\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14164\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14164 lazyload\" alt=\"PicaBot\" data-src=\"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/640px-PicaBot-320x240.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/240;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PicaBot, a smart vacuuming robot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2.)\u00a0\u00a0 Robots are making our lives <a title=\"Robotics Making Our Lives Easier\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theiet.org\/students\/articles\/robots-freeing-people.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">easier<\/a>.Do I really have to spell this one out? Robots are not only doing the jobs we don\u2019t want to do, they are making our daily lives easier. Need proof? GPS, Siri, smart homes, Roomba, iEverything, driverless cars\u2026. Robots have infiltrated our lives while we weren\u2019t looking and now we rely on them. I dare you to go without your phone, laptop, tablet, security system, programmable dishwasher\u00a0or dryer\u2014any one of these&#8211;for a day. It would be a mighty long, arduous day, eh? Now tell me you don\u2019t depend on robots. You do. I do. We all do. They aren\u2019t evil: they are the myriad of devices that make our lives easier in so many tiny ways that they add up to an equation we can\u2019t live without.<\/p>\n<p>1.)\u00a0\u00a0 Robots will love you back.<\/p>\n<p>The number one reason you should love robots is that soon they will be able to love you back. Not only has Artificial Intelligence taken huge leaps in the recent past, but robotic emotional intelligence is exploding. What good are robots that cannot interpret human emotion? How can we make progress with robots when we are, at our core, relational beings? We need our technology to be able to relate to us, if only on a very rudimentary level. And the rudimentary level has been exceeded: our robots can now <a title=\"Sensor Detects Emotions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/421316\/sensor-detects-emotions-through-the-skin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sense<\/a> our emotions, <a title=\"Emotion Tracking Cameras\" href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/08\/26\/intel-developing-emotion-tracking-cameras-for-laptops-tablets-and-phones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read<\/a> our faces and our minds, <a title=\"Moodsensing Smartphone Tells Your Shrink How You Feel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21729056-900-amazon-to-open-market-in-second-hand-mp3s-and-e-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intuit<\/a> our needs almost before we are aware of them ourselves. Okay, maybe we\u2019re not quite that advanced in our technology but we are on the cusp of it. We have <a title=\"Emotion Sensing Tech\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gottabemobile.com\/intel-emotion-sensing-tech-could-allow-your-next-smartphone-to-cheer-you-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apps<\/a> on our phones that can <a title=\"When Algorithms Grow Accustomed To Your Face\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/01\/technology\/when-algorithms-grow-accustomed-to-your-face.html?_r=4&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read our faces<\/a> and robots that can relate to each other: how long will it be before we have robots who can easily interface with us on a relational level? Humans are hardwired for <a title=\"Robts Can Trick You Into Loving Them\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/22\/magazine\/how-robots-can-trick-you-into-loving-them.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=5&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationships<\/a> and soon we will figure out how to program relational robots, robots who can love us back (or seem to).<\/p>\n<p>I tease about my <a title=\"Geek Ethicist: Robot Wives and Android Prostitutes\" href=\"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/geek-ethicist-robot-wives-and-android-prostitues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robot wife<\/a>, but she\u2019s coming. The movie <a title=\"Her Movie Page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warnerbros.com\/movies\/her#\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Her<\/i><\/a> explores the idea of robotic relationships and has raises questions about the ethics of emotionally intelligent robots, as well as their inevitable evolution.<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Her Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJTU48_yghs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nImagine you had a <a title=\"Your New Best Friend May Be A Robot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/OPINION\/02\/13\/breazeal.social.robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robot<\/a> that could sense your emotions, appropriately respond and react appropriately when you, being the human that you are, erred in some way? Imagine that! Would you trade that relationship for the more messy human kind, the one where two flawed beings try to make it work in the same house with a plethora of emotional issues festering just below the surface? Robot wives won\u2019t be just for men, either: how many of you women need a wife? I\u2019d wager every single one of you! We all need someone to take care of us, to have dinner ready when we get home, to do our <a title=\"Robot Maid\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/personal\/2014\/01\/19\/reviewed-moneual-rydis-h68\/4516735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">laundry<\/a>, listen to us talk about our day, pack our lunch and remind us of our doctor\u2019s appointments. And if that wife was a robot, a robot who seemed to love you or at least tend to your emotional needs, wouldn\u2019t you love her? The scary part of this equation is that some people will <a title=\"American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aspcr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forget<\/a> that robots are robots and will begin to think of these robots as people, begin to relate to them as if they were <a title=\"Technosexual: One Man&#039;s Tale of Robot Love\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/technosexual-one-mans-tale-of-robot-love-367698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actual spouses<\/a>, perhaps leaving their earthly fortune to these infinite operating systems, setting them up \u201cfor life.\u201d But robots, conceivably, live forever and don\u2019t need such archaic human inventions as money. After all, robots don\u2019t eat and don\u2019t conspicuously consume (yet) and don\u2019t have the same needs as humans. So it will get more complicated and less complicated. But we will all have robotic relationships: that\u2019s the part I\u2019m looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>I <a title=\"Geek Ethicist: Robot Wives and Android Prostitutes\" href=\"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/geek-ethicist-robot-wives-and-android-prostitues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already<\/a> love robots. Time for you to jump on the motherboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots are going to take our jobs! No, scratch that: Robots are going to take over the world! For decades people have been terrified of the coming robot invasion, foretelling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3558,2733],"tags":[7056,7055,4502,130,7057,7058,6861,7059,7046,5818,7054,7053,6515,4873,7013,6864,5773],"class_list":["post-14160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff","category-web-technology","category-tools","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ethics","tag-google","tag-her","tag-intelligent-design","tag-internet-of-things","tag-love","tag-relationships","tag-robot-ethics","tag-robot-intelligence","tag-robot-love","tag-robotics","tag-robots","tag-smart-homes","tag-smart-objects","tag-smart-technology"],"views":185,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}