Robot with bones moves like you do

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A new robot is designed based on human anatomy.

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[XargenTelNada]

But does he have moves like Jagger?

[KellieSmunt]

Does it wank?

[jezzmoto]

smoking a bong @ 0:28 pretty good

[jhonc95]

first step on robots taking over the world you people are gonna regret inventing robots someday!!

[DW5115]

00:34

And so the human/robotic alliance was settled and the war was over, for now....

[imak179]

@unamaxify and yes I agree. Computers might be powerful enough by 2040, but the actual AI would take longer to program; I hadn't thought of that. I think that a brain can understand itself. I think that the brain is essentially a mechanical thing. Each neuron has tens of thousands of connections. All the connections together make up our memories, thoughts, etc. It might take time, but we will eventually be able to understand it, simulate it, recreate it, and maybe even reprogram it.

[imak179]

@unamaxify There's a company by the name of Alcor that will freeze you for $200,000. That amount includes yearly payments for maintenence, etc. So unfreezing me would simply be fulfilling a contractual obligation. Also, future anthropologists would probably want to talk to people from the past. Either way, I can't really lose. It either works (the chances are probably low), and I get to see the future and possibly live forever as a machine. If it doesn't I die, which will happen anyway.

[unamaxify]

@imak179

crystallization solved, that leave the motivation for future people to defrost you.

(why revive an out-dated-useless person) What about giving the freezing-money to your children instead?

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Raw processing power does not make a brain, it also would need a software that matches human intelligences. This requires that we have an understanding of our brain

(can a brain understand itself ?) maybe we would need a way to digitize a persons mind first to fully understand how it works.

[mantis1mike]

can it shuffle?

[imak179]

@unamaxify Either way, I'd have nothing to lose. I'm gonna die anyway, so I'd take a shot at it. If it works, great. If not, then im no worse off than I was before.

btw, in response to an earlier statement you made, I've heard multiple times that if Moore's law holds, then by 2040, there will be a computer as powerful as the human brain, and that by 2050, a $1,000 computer would be more powerful than the entire human species. Moore's law has actually proved to be a little conservative to date.

[imak179]

@unamaxify People being frozen today have their blood drained and replaced with a solution that significantly reduces crystallization. Once nanotechnology is mature, they'll be able to send hundreds of thousands of tiny robots that will be able to fix you, cell by cell. and that's just what we can foresee based on today's research. Who knows what technological wonders the future will hold that we can't even comprehend right now. Imagine explaining skype to someone living on a farm 100 years ago.

[unamaxify]

@imak179

well good plan,

but until somebody actually finds a way to prevent the crystallization

that destroys all the cells (killing you for good) during the freezing process it's not worth spending much money on.

Today they essentially just sell false hope.

If that problem can be solved, it might be worth it,

but that leaves you with another problem.

what incentive do the future people have to resurrect you ?

or do you have a genius mind, that would be worth the effort for them.