Rise of the Robots

Exhibition.

Some random notes…

Rise of the robots

History

Hephaestus

Blacksmith to the Greek Gods

Mechanical Turk

Present

Terminator

Meta physical grey area

Overtly robot?

Robots made in our image

Comical servant class

Robots are muscle, workers

Asimov laws deliberately ambiguous

To allow fiction

But proper understanding can stop robot misdemeanors

Robot rights?

Human rights still recent invention…

Future

Contrast between intelligence and consciousness

Artificial intelligence here already

Artificial consciousness not yet

Conclusion

Fear and wonder

Want them to be our slaves but tremble at their powers

Design them to do our work but worry they'll take our jobs

Different degrees of humanness

New s reader robot - blinks

Obey

Dream

Build

Human body

Imagine