Visions of the future 4

[Domzdream]

I wanted to get an Ibo dog. Until I found out just how much they cost (urk!)

[MacZambrottVEVO]

Michio Kaku is the god of science!

[John94098]

lol, gotta admit, azumo is a very funny robot... to me anyway.

[MrRunen1]

I would have said this to the asimo robot GET ME A BEER U FUCKING PIECE OF SCRAPMETAL OR I WILL SEND YOU TO WILL SMITH!!!!!!!

[brutsi]

"Your plastic pal who is fun to be with!"

Dildo much?

[iamagenericbadass]

@brutsi lold hard

[lordmerlin10]

The aasimo represents the end of human kind..it is the beginning of the terminater series..

[lilHippo]

lol soon they will be so many robots in japan they'll start to get work as bus boys at resturants and one will drop a plate of hot food and the manager will say "fucking dumbass robot, if you do that again ill take you out back and smash you with a mallet, now pick that shit up." then everyone will feel sorry for the robot...thats when we will have serious problems.

[batgirl9289]

@lilHippo lmfao!

[John94098]

@lilHippo, not only that, but what happens when all this technology and robots, malfunction and try to harm us. And what about people trying to override them and even hack into them.

[lilHippo]

@John94098 thats very very true but what i was going for is the extreme case of human sympathy towards robots...which could lead to the BIG question of the robotic future "do robots have feeling's, can they be considered living things and more importantly do they have rights." which will all lead to robotic civil rights and so on and so fourth. but hey i dont have to worry about that shit with all these natural disasters i'll probably dead by then ;)

[javonne]

technology is simply amazing, it's funny how the technology of today would have made us Gods or witches in the eyes of the people 400 years ago, now if that would be the case for just 400 years ago, then how would we be seen 2000 years ago?.... think about that one for a moment

[spartacandream]

Don't let machines become more intelligent than humans, make humans more intelligent!!!

Our respect and treating robots like humans gives me hope that we won't be genocidal if we meet an alien civilizaton in the next solar system we visit. What we see in Sudan and situations like it isn't exactly giving me any hope though.

We've come so far!

[theproperwhy]

I hope they make some hot robot chicks like in Blade Runner, then u could just program your girlfriend to just "shut the hell up and make me a sandwich." hahaha

[rustystanford]

MIchio Kaku is very smart, he is a leader in human evolution. Japan is the best and most advanced country of all human existance.

[ikkoikki]

@rustystanford Just to clarify, Kaku emigrated to the US as a very young child and owes his ability and skills to his own hard work and US universities.

[Tygan1s]

i just thought of something kewl

when we have achieved AI, and computers are self-aware and can think on their own. they will all be networked with each other (the internet) and the internet will be their god. each individual machine will be a person or whatever species of machine depending on their purpose, it will be evolution all over again but with machines... but the internet will be the controller of all machines... we are creating the god of machines right now

[sphillips91]

In a way daunting, but very exciting none the less.

[TheDarklord0211]

wait wait wait wait you want to teach robots what is bad and what is emotions xD piss it off and you DIE!

[ntuman]

nasty or nice...... lol......

[joonsuk88]

Asimo is cool but also check out Boston Dynamic's Big Dog.

It's a robot with a different purpose.

Asimo is more a civil services robot, but Big Dog is a workhorse robot.

In my opinion Big Dog is more useful and more advanced.

See for yourself.

[Toki52]

:47 Michio checks out butt. Have a computer spot that!

[TheDarklord0211]

@Toki52 rotflmao!

[Eralen00]

How Skynet began?

[pimpnprofits]

They look good, they don't nag, they perform upon command, they listen better. We simply need to kill all women once they can hold & develp my manseed.

[lanceawatt]

HAHA true... the need for the woman in the kitchen will finally come to an end!

(We should be able to visit them in Zoo's though).

[TheDarklord0211]

@pimpnprofits your manseed ¬_¬ dude you fucking 5? its call sperm!

[macyg1989]

So what will happen when eventually artificial life becomes so much smarter than use that they see us as the inferior species??

[Domzdream]

I personally think that we're already in the process of becoming machine-line. Cyborgs basically. Look at how much we've progressed technologically- the pacer to replace a heart, false teeth, etc.

We'll become so slowy machine like we'll not even notice when the transition will have happened. It'll be gradual. Before we know it, we'll talk to robots like other people because we'll have so much in common with them. Then we'll finally see that there is no soul, only an energy that is abundant.

[eyhexs]

we should be thankful skynet will be created un the USA, because if it was to be created in japan, we would really be screwed

[spetznazkye]

At 9.24 if you listen carefully you can hear the Microsoft windows start up LOL!

[mockingarab]

why in the hell do we waste time and money making something that looks and walks like a human when we can make other simplified forms and shapes and spend that time and money making the brain? does the way it looks matters?

[alipoo21]

OMG this has just accured to me. what if we are robots that some other life form has made and we dominated them like a million years ago and were taught to believe we were the first and then it happens it again with the next robots...whoooah. movie? haha

[BDBveggiegirl]

that's weird! what a cool idea

[derbigpr500]

Well theres no question we were designed by someone. Our bodies are just to complex.

[Eralen00]

Then why do we have so many homologous structures and vestigial structures? For example Goosebumps and ear muscles

[MadPutz]

the whole universe could be made by something, for now let's just stick to science to figure it all out rather than making stuff up like intelligent design and other theory

[KelferMookie]

God.

[tyj2121]

well we know what to do when we have no more real pets lol

[FAnchax]

Michio Kaku ftw son

[Drokua89]

japan is the only country not giving a fuck what people think and just study science which is what everyone else should start fucking doing and maybe we would be on mars by now

[Ecks54]

Amen brother, I feel the same way

[mayanthegod]

I agree.

[HotRootBeer]

HAHA! True

[phahtrox]

I love the Japanese for that fact.

[cosmotcat]

WOW. I so agree. We waste so much time and energy on 'celebrities' ... we waste so much money on unimportant things ... we have put science so far back ... it's very sad. We should have been on Mars 20 years ago. We need to TRASH that 30 year old space shuttle technology and start again from the ground up ... NEW ideas ... NEW inspiration ... get some young blood in there.

[Perapsam]

Exactly! Fuck idiots like Nicola from I'm a Celebrity and all that other shit. We need geniuses, pronto, which is why i'm going into the career of science when I'm older.

[spartacandream]

@Drokua89 Yeah, let's join Japan in advancing technology forward faster and faster! Let the religious loons catch up on their own time, if they do.

[soboringman]

@Drokua89 Exactly

[John94098]

@Drokua89, or even further more advanced... by a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way.

[lilHippo]

@Drokua89 or have a civilization under water...how cool would that be and japan would have ahead start.

[wildvidz]

@Drokua89 or we could say fuck more often! =) I agree with you also~

[YouKnowMeImJosh]

Japanese people love them some robots. That's all I got to say.

[asseeninYOURDREAMS]

4:06 "antepromotofy" what was that? how do you actually speall that????

[sled1950]

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. Subjects for anthropomorphism commonly include animals depicted as creatures with human motivation able to reason and converse, forces of nature such as winds or the sun, components in games, unseen or unknown sources of chance, etc. Almost anything can be subject to anthropomorphism

[LOONMan123]

one day robots are going to be taking over the world so the world has to have a back up control

[TheKariboDude]

i want to se a robot that dances like micheal jackson lol

[Domzdream]

I saw this whole documentary. And they speak of teleportation. But not your physical form, but rather your electrical self. All your experiences, personality, all that, zapped to another cloned body, millions of light years away. If this will be possible, it'll blow a hole into religion and the idea of a soul. But in knowing this doeant mean we can now be any less civil to each other, or to love each other any less. It changes nothing in fact.

[SeanKey71]

Religion will only change it will never go away.

[Domzdream]

Alter or become something else. Yes.

If I were religious, I'd worship the light. It's the source of all life!

[evilchimp69]

are we God,s artificial intelligence?

[Domzdream]

It would be interesting to put a learning computer with another learning computer and see what would happen. I'm refering to that scene with the dogs being able to be stroked, recognising whats pleasureable and what isnt.

Imagine 2 robots (with learning chip), petting each other. A simbiotic relationship probably would occur. I wonder...

[FullmetalCommunist]

Oh my God, Michio Kaku is such a legend. Him and ASIMO in the same programme? It doesn't get much better than that.

[intermission101]

the robots are so cute, aren't they? I want the dog ones. They're so adorable. I wonder if they'll make a cat version.

[pepetruelo]

First of all, what's wrong with being Amish?

Am I not allowed, if I should choose so, to go about my life without the need for technology?

[pepetruelo]

This is not about tolerating or not tolerating technology; it's about how far you are willing to let technology invade your private life, not only by taking away your freedom, but also by creating a new kind of techno-morality.

Paul Saffo is suggesting that you can trust a robot better than a friend, even worse, that you will become dependent on it. I say NO, THANK YOU.

[menzoic]

You can trust a robot if its not programmed to give others information. Communicating with a robot that responds just as an actual human would keeps the experience the same. They are not trying to be the robot, they are trying to make the robot like us.

[Domzdream]

I see robotics as being there to alleviate us humans from battling with things we have difficulty with. Look at the car which replaced the mule. It's amchine, we put our trust into its functions, we dont care how they work but they get the job done right and well. Same thing with robots. Wether for companionship or labour. It goes deeper with regards to implementing AI into the robots, but that's a whole other pholosophical subject. A very subjective, er, subject he he.

[menzoic]

@pepetruelo, lol what are you going to tell the robot that will betray your trust? You don't need to tell it your medical problems and secrets.

The only things we'd be dependent on are things that we wouldn't be able to do without them.

[pepetruelo]

I agree. But I'm not arguing against the functionality of a robot. My point is that the way the documentary is introducing robots goes well beyond mere human assistance. There's special emphasis on laying down a principle of affection towards the machine. Why? What for?

Could it be that they are preparing us for a world policed by robots, who can arrest/kill you if you don't show affection? I mean, they're already tasering people for asking questions!

Call me a nut, but I smell something fishy.

[pepetruelo]

Menzoic, how would you know if it's not programmed to give others information? If Google can give others information, why wouldn't a robot, who lives with you, sees and hears you?

I'm not paranoid. I'm just realistic. Isn't the U.S. Government already wiretapping every communication? --> watch?v=Phib8G6Sp14

Wouldn't a "friendly" robot be a much more efficient spy?

I just wonder if they're not trying to make robots like us so that they can eventually replace us?

[pepetruelo]

Menzoic, how would you know if it's not programmed to give others information? If Google can give others information, why wouldn't a robot, who lives with you, sees and hears you?

I'm not paranoid. I'm just realistic. Isn't the U.S. Government already wiretapping every communication? --> watch?v=Phib8G6Sp14

Wouldn't a "friendly" robot be much more efficient?

I just wonder if they're not trying to make robots like us so that they can eventually replace us?

[menzoic]

I guess the naive who don't know that things such as medical history and personal preference should be kept quiet in this statistic driven country. I was responding to the atmosphere of your first comment that suggest that the government and not scientist are creating all (comment limit)...

[menzoic]

(finishing comment) of these technologies, of course they can easily be brought but the source of this technology is from the people and as far as I know its unlikely for citizens under a government to not be able to turn any of their technology inside out.

[pepetruelo]

That's the way it should go, no question about it.

However, Bush has recently signed the bill "S. 1858: Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007", whereby every newborn's DNA is taken and owned by the US government, who can then perform genetic research without the knowledge or consent of their parents.

It seems they've skipped medical history and gone straight down to genetics. Don't you think that's intrusive, to say the least?

[menzoic]

Acts likes those are the kinds of things that need to be challenged and declared unconstitutional.

[pepetruelo]

Then this Paul Saffo (technology forecaster?) goes on to say: eventually... "you've gotten into the habit of sharing your SECRETS with it (robot), and it listens so well, AND SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR FRIEND, that you will become DEPENDENT on it"

If the ALERT bell isn't ringing in your ears, then you'd better wake up, or your kids will soon prefer to confide in an intelligent robot than with you.

[batukhan]

You need to understand, that we ourselves are nothing but complex information processing units. A robot is just another computer. If we gave it human-like emotions, then it wouldn't really matter if i'm communicating with a human or a robot.

And please don't take the moral-highground of "it's not human, so it's evil" or something.. That's just fear of the unknown.

[pepetruelo]

You say we are "nothing but complex information processing units", but then you may as well have a limited view of life. We aren't merely a brain: we are body, and soul, and spirit; we have memories, and senses, and the capacity to love and hate. How would you teach these things to a computer? How would it handle hate? A robot's heart would be a program, created by engineers. It is they who take the arrogant moral highground of pretending their machine can breathe life.

[Domzdream]

Firstly, you are basing your 'information' on a religious rule. ie the soul, spirit. We are propelled by energy which you know energy is eternal, reshaped and always there. It activates our bodies made of organic material, fueled by food, to activate our computers(our brains). Look at bees. They are literally like organic computers, in some ways far more efficient than us humans. Robots will certainly deserve an extra attention when they are self-aware. It will happen.

[Domzdream]

Oh, I agree about the moral high ground. In the end, what IS evil? Whole other philosophical topic, I know. Machines just are. Therefore we just are.

I agree ith you, you have to shed all that religious based piffle and think more rationally and logically in oder to understand what the future ai will hold or behave. And the 'morals' that will follw. We ARE complex computers ourselves, we just happen to have outer shells (our bodies) that are not made of metal, but are organic.

[pepetruelo]

Your rational description of what we are doesn't disprove the existence of a human spirit.

I agree that the future will happen and there's nothing I can do about it. Except for being critical of what I understand may become a menace to mankind. Evil is that which intends harm, and -in different degrees- it is present in all of us. I'm a supporter and user of new technologies, but I oppose that which I feel will bring harm instead of benefit.

[pepetruelo]

Then this Paul Saffo (technology forecaster?) goes on to say: eventually... "you've gotten into the habit of sharing your SECRETS with it (robot), and it listens so well, AND SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOUR FRIEND, that you will become DEPENDENT on it"

If the ALERT bell isn't ringing in your ears, then you'd better wake up, or your kids will soon prefer to confide in an "intelligent robot" than in you.

[pepetruelo]

Prof. Susan Greenfield says she asked 8 year old kids if they'd rather have their best friend or have a toy robot as best friend... "and amazingly, the best friend was DUMPED immediately in favor of the robot..."

This is, according to the narrator, "to live in harmony with the world"

Notice how much emphasis is put on conveying the idea of love toward robots.