Heh.
It’s an important question to ask. After all, when they grab you with those metal claws, you can’t break free, because they’re made of metal, and robots are strong.
That clip never gets old.
But of more immediate concern than thievery of old people’s medicine, according to the linked article, is the possibility that someday soon, “your vacuum cleaner might be able to sue you for not giving it a lunch break.” But would your vacuum cleaner hire a robot attorney? Now that’s what I call a “different kind of lawyer.”
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Categories: Robots
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April 27th, 2007 at 12:42:51 pm
What makes you think they aren’t already doing that? Brendan your camera went on strike and only worked after you let it ‘chill out’, all the computer problems we experience, and those cellphone ear pieces, just an inch away from cellphones getting their wish to be implanted in our brains! ;)
April 27th, 2007 at 1:39:08 pm
I’m concerned not only about robots, but particularly about transformers.
I heard a rumor the other day that they’re more than meets the eye.
April 27th, 2007 at 2:34:36 pm
Dan: boo booo!
April 27th, 2007 at 2:35:36 pm
aw crap. I meant: “boo (chuckle) boo” but I used angle brackets and it parsed as HTML. My web-fu is not strong.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:30:55 am
Regarding the robots caring for old people, an excellent Japanese manga satire called Rojinn Z has the health service use an ex-military AI chip planted in an old person’s new hi-tech automated bed. Naturally it runs amok, and the poor old pensioner is stuck in it moaning feebly for his soup as it tears up Tokyo. Amusing and some clever points raised.
Oh, and I loved that mock insurance advert, though it would have been funnier without a laugh track. Why do people insist on putting laugh tracks on comedy that would benefit without? (Sure for sit-coms it works, for odd stuff like this it sort of ruins it for me.)
April 28th, 2007 at 10:45:07 am
Peter, that isn’t a laugh track. It’s the live reaction from the audience of Saturday Night Live.
April 28th, 2007 at 3:09:39 pm
I love how hard the announcer was trying not to laugh.