http://www.kurzweilai.net/russia-today-ai-researcher-says-people-will-fall-in-love-with-virtual-romantic-partners
creeepy
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have feelings for the Svedka Vodka robot already, so, yes
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
If ILX's experiences with the 'date Ariane' game are anything to go by, the answer to the thread question is 'no'.
― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well in the future sex robots will probably allow you to walk in on them while they're taking a dump, it's just common sense
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
A core dump?
― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I don't pay 'em for sex...I pay 'em to shut down afterwards"
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Is that an Arduino in your pocket, or are you pleased to see me?"
― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Well in the future sex robots will probably allow you to walk in on them while they're taking a dump, it's just common sense"
I thought you said "allow you to walk ON them while their taking a dump"
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Isn't there a rolling US elections thread here for discussing Mitt Romney?*rimshot*
― dell (del), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
speaking as a robot, i find this thread shitty and insensitive. it's not easy, you know.
― the late great, Friday, 11 May 2012 17:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was under the impression that the majority of posts here these days are composed by bots? The bulk of the real human interaction is mostly limited to the secret I Love Smelting sub-board
― dell (del), Friday, 11 May 2012 17:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haha, what a horribly formed "joke"!!
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I chanced on some TV show about this topic recently and lol'd at the "experts" they rounded up to interview. had great subheaders like "robotic sex enthusiast"
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Try GISing 'robert crumb sex robot' (NSFW results obviously)
― banal like anal (snoball), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
The guys meet awkwardly, the searcher says, "Let's see it," or something creepy like that, and the West Virginian tinkerer takes him into a woodshed (I am not making this up) and shows him what half a million dollars and little American prurience and elbow grease can do. The cameraman shows us the writhing, sputtering doll, then quickly swings up to the searcher's face and we're totally sure that he's going to be disappointed because what he's looking at is a really weird, sad excuse for realism. Then, unexpectedly, he smiles. He says he's really happy about what he's seeing. One of the filmmakers asks tentatively, "Would you have sex with that robot?" And to our utter horror, the man, smiling even wider, answers, "Yes, I would definitely have sex with that robot."
― dell (del), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
No. No...I don't think. Probably not. It would be very, very wrong.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
people would probably not do R2D2 without some mods on his frame
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only thing needing "mods" is the attitude underlying retrograde comments such as that
― dell (del), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
with a well-placed kitchen stool you'd be good to go
― dell (del), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
something there is that doesn't love a robot
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Down in Joe's Garage
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Friday, 11 May 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 11 May 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
imagine the robo-chafe
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 14 May 2012 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
People are capable of forming emotional attachment to other people, to pets, to cars, to collections of objects, to smells, to ideas, to deceased people, to doorframes, matchbooks, phrases -- iow, just about anything under the sun. Robots notwithstanding.
― Aimless, Monday, 14 May 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love lamp
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Enjoy boning Small Wonder, everyone
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
now you're just projecting
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will cop to needing to have that show on in the background during the act. i guess everybody has their quirks
― dell (del), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
*backs out of thread, closes door*
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
heh heh
― dell (del), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://m.gizmodo.com/5870529/the-sad-story-of-a-real-life-r2+d2-who-saved-countless-human-lives-and-died
But one day Scooby met his match. Maybe he'd gotten cocky, turned maverick. His ego writing checks his body couldn't cash. We'll never know. But Scooby Doo was killed in Iraq when an IED he was trying to defuse exploded.Like Luke after R2-D2 saved the day on the Death Star's trench run, the veteran EOD unit member brought Scooby's body into the repair depot at Camp Victory and said "you've got to fix Scooby." The repair tech said that Scooby was beyond repair, but he could have a brand new robot. No, you don't under stand, this soldier insisted, Scooby Doo had be fixed. He did not want some damn new robot—he wanted Scooby Doo back. Scooby Doo was part of the team. He'd saved their lives. It was reported that this veteran soldier was visibly upset.And this is not uncommon. EOD units have been known to promote their bots to titles such as Staff Sergeant, award them Purple Hearts, and even hold funerals for their fallen brothers in robotic arms. They assign them personalities, dispositions. Some have even taken their robots fishing with them and let them hold the pole. Regardless of whether you call that camaraderie or laziness, I would argue that it's bonding. It's not hard to see where Scooby Doo's team was coming from. If your dog had been critically injured, and you took him to the vet, and the vet said, "Sorry, can't fix him, but how's about a new dog?" you'd tell him to go procreate with himself, your friend is not so easily replaced.
Like Luke after R2-D2 saved the day on the Death Star's trench run, the veteran EOD unit member brought Scooby's body into the repair depot at Camp Victory and said "you've got to fix Scooby." The repair tech said that Scooby was beyond repair, but he could have a brand new robot. No, you don't under stand, this soldier insisted, Scooby Doo had be fixed. He did not want some damn new robot—he wanted Scooby Doo back. Scooby Doo was part of the team. He'd saved their lives. It was reported that this veteran soldier was visibly upset.
And this is not uncommon. EOD units have been known to promote their bots to titles such as Staff Sergeant, award them Purple Hearts, and even hold funerals for their fallen brothers in robotic arms. They assign them personalities, dispositions. Some have even taken their robots fishing with them and let them hold the pole. Regardless of whether you call that camaraderie or laziness, I would argue that it's bonding. It's not hard to see where Scooby Doo's team was coming from. If your dog had been critically injured, and you took him to the vet, and the vet said, "Sorry, can't fix him, but how's about a new dog?" you'd tell him to go procreate with himself, your friend is not so easily replaced.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
those are really robots?
i thought they were more like RC cars
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
but yeah, a lot of what they do is the execution of programming, not just response to remote control
thanks i know what a robot is
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
like what
if it was a robot it wouldn't need an operator right?
i mean a car motor with electronic fuel injection does a bunch of complex tasks automatically as a result of programming
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lover Robots
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think I would advise against becomeing too emotionally attached to a bomb-defusing robot. Call me cold but I just think it wiser not to.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
In spite of Jude Law in A.I., which once made a very persuasive case for me, I think I am going to stick to the failures of human flesh.
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
some of the robots used for bomb detection are self-directing. you just set them out and give them a GPS point B to arrive at, and they do the rest (navigation, bomb identification).
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
^ that to the late great's question upthread
If thre's no free will, we're essentially robots already
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
eh contenderizer that doesn't sound much like a robot to me unless you want to call a predator drone a robot, also the identifying part is kinda overstating the case
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean my kettle can identify boiling water and a coinstar can identify a quarter, doesn't make it a robot
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, but can you're kettle defuse boiling water? I didn't think so.
RIP Scooby!
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
scooby can't defuse anything without a guy on the other end pushing a joystick around
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
No need to get scatalogical
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Monday, 14 May 2012 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean whatever, it's a picky pedant argument anyway, people give their cars and guns names and personalities so why not a not-robot i guess
― the late great, Monday, 14 May 2012 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
cool, i think this is mostly a semantic difference. the term "robot" can be (and is) defined all sorts of different ways. i tend to use a very broad definition, which yeah, allows a lot of everyday machines to be classed as robots.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Monday, 14 May 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
If intense trauma increases person-to-person attachment, it should increase any personal attachment
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
i could only love a tombot
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
How about a ro-butt?
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Im not sure I understand the robo-buttocks - is it for medical training or pleasure?
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
What part of "Buttocks Humanoid that Represents Emotions" do you not understand?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 20:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
artificial buttock intelligence? alert Speilberg
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 09:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
When it crashes, do you have to re-booty?
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Thursday, 31 May 2012 10:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
ABI- the love3story of a robo ass and some renegade robogenitals
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 31 May 2012 10:58 (11 months ago) Permalink