Would You Switch Off A Robot If It Begged Not To Be?

Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:35 pm » by **One-23**

I wonder how I would personally react in that situation.
Would it become a moral decision or would ethics become more prevalent :headscratch:

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Will our machines acquire the ability to convince us that they are in fact alive? An unsettling study at the the Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology:

This video shows an experiment in which participants are asked to switch off a robot and thereby killing it. The robot begs for its live and we measured how long the participants hesitated.

The perception of life largely depends on the observation of intelligent behavior. Even abstract geometrical shapes that move on a computer screen are being perceived as being alive… in particular if they change their trajectory nonlinearly or if they seem to interact with their environments.

The robot’s intelligence had a strong effect on the users’ hesitation to switch it off, in particular if the robot acted agreeable. Participants hesitated almost three times as long to switch off an intelligent and agreeable robot (34.5 seconds) compared to an unintelligent and non-agreeable robot (11.8 seconds).

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Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:37 pm » by **domdabears**

That robot isn't very sympathetic.

I'd shut that bitch down!!!!!!!!!!

Then boot it back up to do it all over again!!!!!

Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:48 pm » by **One-23**

domdabears wrote:That robot isn't very sympathetic.

I'd shut that bitch down!!!!!!!!!!

Then boot it back up to do it all over again!!!!!

Agree, that particular bot sucked, I guess the real question is " would you feel any real compassion for a true AI machine? "

Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:56 pm » by **Harbin**

I've been fooled by cold heartless evil bitches, played by playas, and bamboozled any number of times. Surely, I could be swayed by a sufficiently convincing AI.

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Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:58 pm » by **Edgar 2.0**

One-23 wrote:
domdabears wrote:That robot isn't very sympathetic.

I'd shut that bitch down!!!!!!!!!!

Then boot it back up to do it all over again!!!!!

Agree, that particular bot sucked, I guess the real question is " would you feel any real compassion for a true AI machine? "

Never.

And i wish some real people were equipped with an on/off switch. Just in case.

Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:58 pm » by **domdabears**

Harbin wrote:I've been fooled by cold heartless evil bitches, played by playas, and bamboozled any number of times. Surely, I could be swayed by a sufficiently convincing AI.

Don't worry, playa.

Playa's fuck up too.