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[Princess of Darkness]

Could we ever eliminate every kind of human labour via robots?

[mallowblaster]

No, because robots can't feel.  Well, I don't believe they will create robots that have real human emotion.  Work is not only the jobs we don't like to do.  A lot of things take work.  Even relationships take work, and we can't employ a robot to work in our relationship for us.

[semimortal]

true chris
plus robots cant create a piece of true art,this ,takes feelings

[mallowblaster]

Ah, but art is also subjective.  What is art?  Art is a term that remains in the eye of the beholder.  If a person and a robot were to replicate the same work of art, would you know the difference from looking at it?

[Medea]

I think there's much to be said about work done by human hand vs mass produced items

Even food that is made by hand, there is such a huge difference in the quality!
Robots could never compare to that

[semimortal]

mallowblaster, on Dec 9 2006, 06:16 AM, said:

Ah, but art is also subjective.  What is art?  Art is a term that remains in the eye of the beholder.  If a person and a robot were to replicate the same work of art, would you know the difference from looking at it?

how can a robot write a poem?

[Pieter Bas]

Nope, as long human still have to program robots.

He could write a poem, Artificial intelligence  (crappy movie btw)

[semimortal]

pieter,i dont remember that part in the movie,and ya,agreed crappy movie
still , i dont believe that a robot could write a poem,or make us shed a tear in whatever form of art

[Princess of Darkness]

I'd just fancy a robot to cook for me, clean my home and go make money for me so that I could lounge around living my life as a filthy hedonist

[mallowblaster]

Like Rosie from the Jetsons!

[Pieter Bas]

semimortal, on Dec 10 2006, 02:00 AM, said:

pieter,i dont remember that part in the movie,and ya,agreed crappy movie
still , i dont believe that a robot could write a poem,or make us shed a tear in whatever form of art

It isn't in the movie, but it would be probably possible that a robot could write a poem.. Just enter your mood, and the robot would generate a poem that suits your mood

[semimortal]

pieter ya but how would he be able to judge if his choice of words can reach the readers emotions?

[Kung-Fu Barbie]

I don't think a robot could really write a poem, it could maybe take bits and pieces from other poems and put them together

[Medea]

I think it's rather silly to think that robots in the future will have emotion
you can't create emotion

[Kung-Fu Barbie]

well a robot would do whatever it's programmed to do, so maybe on of the things it might be able to do is convey a manufactured sense of empathy by stating responses like
"I'm sorry to hear that"
It's not the robot having feelings, but the person can interpret them as feelings and emotions, especially if they have no one else to talk to

[Medea]

That's a bit pathedic don't you think?

[Kung-Fu Barbie]

well it is hard to think of ourselves thinking like that, and obviously there will never be a replacement for human emotion
But it doesn't mean it's not possible

[Medea]

well I don't agree with it, I don't think it's ethical to try and have a machine immitate a human being
It's one step closer to playing God

[Kung-Fu Barbie]

That's true, but it seems that is the direction society is going

[Medea]

I think it could very likely be our downfall