Tell me why in just about every show/movieor book people make robots look bad and dangerous...I mean not every robot will want to kill you or make a riot like some mad people (if they were programed to have there own opinion) wouldn't they be just like your reguler people in the world. yes some are killers, some or racist but come they can not be all bad.
~referring to Metropolis and Animatrix~
2007-09-11 12:03:26 · 27 answers · asked by Ice_Nova 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You should watch the movie "I, Robot" with Will Smith... it is based on a story by Isaac Asimov, I believe. It's a great movie... exciting, mysterious, and with a wonderful ending that puts a twist on things.
That's my advice after reading your question. I haven't seen nor am familiar with Metropolis (wait, that sounds familiar; rings an OLD bell) or Animatrix.
2007-09-11 12:12:04 · answer #1 · answered by LK 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The two most scary things about robots is that they do not have social context / conscience and that they are scaleable (i.e. they can be duplicated with the same programming).
Social context is really important, and its absence is fundamentally frightening. If I tell someone to go push someone off a building then he won't (hopefully!) because he knows it is wrong. Many horror films are based on sociopaths who don't care about societal norms...
Scaleability on its own is also fundamentally frightening - you don't really want 10,000,000,000,000 police any more than you want 10,000,000,000,000 robbers! It just means that when something goes wrong you can get a very big problem very quickly.
The combination is great for positioning robots as "bad guys". There are tons of films and books about this - it also leaves the author or director free to gloss over what would usually be an unconvincing explanation of the bad guy's motivation with "it's a robot".
It's just so easy to make a robot bad guy.
2007-09-12 12:59:37 · answer #2 · answered by KMan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi there
I believe that what the film directors are trying to do, is to brainwash the masses for some 'impeding' disaster coming from the machines / robots. Made of course by humans. By doing that, they shift the attention from societal and racial issues, to an enemy that nobody has ever seen and no-one knows how to deal with. The results are some stunning visual effects and some underlined message (brainwashing) about what 'might' be happen in the near future. Today I read in the news that Japan has deployed robots to fill its workforce gap. Possibly our dominance by machines might not be a fiction after all, thus the machines are baddies! So whats open for questioning is really WHO makes these machines and WHY!
2007-09-12 11:43:02 · answer #3 · answered by saturn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the programme/film makers want to exploit our concept of anything that's different is bad.
A robot is a machine and has no emotions. It also has faster reflexes and greater processing powers. All in all, in the fictional world, that makes them superior to humans. With the invent of AI (artificial intelligence) it's a quick jump to a robot deciding that they are superior to humans and therefore wanting to supercede them ... in effect, becoming a baddy.
No-one's mentioned the three rules of robotics so I will. A robot is never to harm or allow harm to come to a human.
A robot is to protect humans unless it interferes with the first rule
A robot is to protect it's own existance unless that conflicts with the first two rules.
Theoretically, that will prevent a robot from ever turning 'bad' but as we know. Rules are made to be broken.
2007-09-12 15:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asimov described this as the 'Frankenstein complex' and discussed it at some length in the introduction to his Robot series. He argued that Robots will be precision engineered and programed and would no more want to take over the world or turn on their creator than a light bulb would! Ironically, many of his stories then went on to describe his robots doing just that!
2007-09-12 10:38:21 · answer #5 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just because objects which resemble humans or are capable of human-like thought or communication are naturally more threatening. Like a gun on it's own isn't threatening, but a robot which has no emotion and a gun attached to it, saying "You have three seconds to comply.." in an emotionless voice is a whole lot more scary. Or, it could be because writers can be more adventurous with robots.
2007-09-12 12:34:09 · answer #6 · answered by Iron Ninja 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not all are bad - think of Bladerunner where the whole premis is about what makes us human, replicants developing emotions and being forced to defend themselves, and of course the question over Dekkards origins.......
in I Robot there are the 3 Laws of Robotics. One, they cannot harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, they must do whatever they're told by a human being as long as such orders don't conflict with law one. Three, they have to defend themselves as long as such defense doesn't conflict with laws one or two. However they evolve - again possibly becoming more human like?
Similarly Rem from the TV series of Logans Run......and mustn't forget CP30 and R2D2!
2007-09-12 10:30:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the Foundation Series - his books generally start wiith robots being good then bad then good etc
The Foundation Series will enlighten you and they will only cost 20p or so at a 2nd hand shop.
Probably the best Science Fiction Writer in the 20th Century, sorry Heinlen (fiction with science) and of course Clarek (fact with sf).
TY IA you made my life more enjoyable.
2007-09-12 12:50:19 · answer #8 · answered by togeoff 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you review your source material. It is true that a lot of films portray them as baddies but there are an equal number that portray them as saviours. The robot in lost in space, for example is the boys friend ?? Number 5 who is alive is very kind although extremely dangerous. Terminator 3, has Arnie as a robot coming back to save mankind.
check them out
2007-09-12 11:17:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because an artificial intelligence is not a sense of humanity, it will not feel guilty for any of its actions, it will not tell the difference from right or wrong without very specific programing. Artificial intelligence is the ability to learn from previous experience and adapt and apply to a new experience. If an artificial intelligence is left to run our society, and it decides human life is so inefficient and a waste of it power, why should it not improve its own life by becoming more efficient by getting rid off the human race.
2007-09-12 09:54:55 · answer #10 · answered by rob w 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋