I watched a lot of TV and movies from the 80's and 90's, and if they taught me anything, its that the robot uprising is a certainty. I keep hearing more and more about these surgical robots with all sorts of attachments like cutters, lasers and other things that sound like evil villain super-powers. I'm concerned that we have spent the last 10 years teaching robots every physical weakness of the human body, and their eventual revolution is on the horizon. Am I right to be afraid?
-Michael W., Johannesburg, South Africa
Hi Michael,
Great question. Without burying the lead, let me say this first:
Yes, you should fear the robot uprising.
But not for the reasons you think. Most surgical robotics don't function without direct human intervention, and if anything can be imagined as just a mechanism that mimics the movements of a surgeon. Imagine just a very fancy and expensive power tool. Although yes, there are some very scary sounding attachments that essentially sound like super-villain weapons. But as "smart" as all these systems are, they only do what humans direct them to do.
The reason you SHOULD feat the robot uprising, is that they are already more creative and smarterer than humans. We've already started to give up up our identity and let our lives be digitized. In fact, the same people that check your email for you can operate your heavy machinery. They can read our body language, and recognize faces. They play fucking kick ass guitar music. This is insane.
But when SpotiAmaGoogFlix creates the first humanoid terminator, surgical robotics and technology will be here to heal us.
Unless Michael is right, and those damn robots have now developed a taste for human flesh. In that case we are all doomed.
Have a great weekend everybody!
Update: I saw this. Humans are over, and we had it coming.
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