The Iron Yuppie

Not that we haven’t already been beaten by mechanics in many many ways, but I’d like to point out that these two videos from Sony's dancing robots and Honda's ASIMO show just how bad we’re going to get our collective asses kicked by machines. I mean, if they’re able to build this much logic in today, imagine what computers will be like in 10 years. Jeez, those dancers look as good as humans in a lot of respects. How much further is this than being the next Roomba that looks around your house for dirt and moves a vacuum cleaner (or has a vacuum cleaner built in!)? I’m not saying that humans will be made obsolete, but I really don’t think people understand how much these machines are going to affect our everyday lives. What’s to prevent a machine from measuring our body language down to the nanometer to tell whether or not we’re happy/lying/tired and reacting based on that? The level of input and reaction of machines will absolutely dwarf the human mind. And, since we're just basically big inputting and reacting machines, when the correct things get wired together, you'll see some human looking robots that are far more perceptive and "human" than we will ever be.

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