Comments on: On the Imminent Robot Uprising

by: Anthea

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:55:04 +0000

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

by: melendwyr

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:18:31 +0000

Nice to see that you’re putting up new content again.

I’m a little disappointed that you didn’t even reference the Replicators as an example of a “more-realistic”, non-anthropomorphic kind of dangerous robot, though.

by: TMD

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:56:28 +0000

Awesome…finally someone gets cartoon robots into the SCSU Philosophy Dept budget. Or something like that. Wish I could have been there, this seems like it was worth all the time and effort. More!

by: thomblake

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:14:45 +0000

Buck,

That’s MIT’s Kismet, a social robot that could have ‘conversations’ with people involving responding to gestures and emotional reactions. It’s been inspirational to robot enthusiasts for some time now.

by: buck

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:42:19 +0000

Also, I got sidetracked at the time and didn’t ask–which of the three pictured bots (Kismet, Cog, Nico) is in the lower-right of that slide? They *totally* based new Transformers on that face design for the new movie.

by: buck

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:39:55 +0000

Dang, the only reason I didn’t record the talk myself was a mix of assuming you’d have made arrangements if you wanted it, and that I didn’t think of it until 5 or 10 minutes in. I’ll definitely get your next one for you!

by: Peter Fendrich

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:24:44 +0000

Thanks for an interesting and instructive, step by step introduction to the future of humanoids! I believe that we have control about humanoids behaviour (thinking about Asimov’s 3 robot laws). But shit happens of course…