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AIs and Captcha
Morituri:
I can see a dynamic where they are AI's and robots are what they walk around in.
May didn't choose her robot. She doesn't want to identify with the reformchassis and is saving up for a replacement.
So calling her a robot - confusing her with the very instrumentality she hates to inhabit - seems likely to be offensive.
Momo on the other hand picked her chassis and loves it, and seems to have less of a problem with people identifying her with it.
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 04 Apr 2018, 01:42 ---May didn't choose her robot. She doesn't want to identify with the reformchassis and is saving up for a replacement.
So calling her a robot - confusing her with the very instrumentality she hates to inhabit - seems likely to be offensive.
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Since she actually used the term 'robot' to figuratively refer to a machine that could do nothing but repeat the same action over and over and over (specifically, doing her job), it would seem that in her mind, the distinction is that a robot could be unintelligent and without consciousness. So she considers someone calling her a robot the equivalent of reducing her to a mindless machine, just as she considers her job at the convenience store to be demeaning and insulting.
Storel:
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 04 Apr 2018, 08:41 ---Since she actually used the term 'robot' to figuratively refer to a machine that could do nothing but repeat the same action over and over and over (specifically, doing her job), it would seem that in her mind, the distinction is that a robot could be unintelligent and without consciousness. So she considers someone calling her a robot the equivalent of reducing her to a mindless machine, just as she considers her job at the convenience store to be demeaning and insulting.
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Exactly. We have robots right now that mindlessly do the same tasks over and over -- factory assembly lines are crowded with such robots. Any proper AI would be insulted to be compared with those.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 04 Apr 2018, 01:42 ---Momo on the other hand picked her chassis and loves it, and seems to have less of a problem with people identifying her with it.
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Certainly. Momo has called herself a robot when first meeting Sam, and I believe that she also identified as one when Hanners was freaked-out by her hugging (I may have forgotten exactly what she said though). Preferred terms may vary from AI to AI though.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Storel on 06 Apr 2018, 13:21 ---
--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 04 Apr 2018, 08:41 ---Since she actually used the term 'robot' to figuratively refer to a machine that could do nothing but repeat the same action over and over and over (specifically, doing her job), it would seem that in her mind, the distinction is that a robot could be unintelligent and without consciousness. So she considers someone calling her a robot the equivalent of reducing her to a mindless machine, just as she considers her job at the convenience store to be demeaning and insulting.
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Exactly. We have robots right now that mindlessly do the same tasks over and over -- factory assembly lines are crowded with such robots. Any proper AI would be insulted to be compared with those.
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Also, “robot” is derived from the Czech word for forced labour; there aren’t many sapient beings that want to be slaves after all.
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