Why Hollywood loves rogue AI and killer robots, but science has a ways to go before you need to worry about deadly singularity
M3GAN comes from a rich lineage, not all of it as schlockey as she is. The word “robot” dates back to a 1920s Czech film, but the idea of sentient machines, or automata, has been a feature of speculative fiction for much longer. More recently, the idea of a humanoid robot that gains sentience and turns on the people around it has become a staple of film and TV.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Last year, Ai-Da was called upon to give evidence in the debate on AI in the U.K.’s House of Lords. Sadly, the machine, described in the Guardian as “a sex doll strapped to a pair of egg whisks” shut down before she got going. She is hardly the first person to nod off midway through a session in the House of Lords, but most of the others aren’t plugged into the mains.
On the contrary, she says it is important for robots to look and feel appropriate to their function. “We make robots for monitoring offshore platforms: they are hard, rugged, yellow things,” she says. “If you put them in your home, people would freak out. But if it’s going to be in your home, it should look like a robot. That will help with societal acceptance. Humanlike robots risk falling into the uncanny valley, where they become more unsettling the more lifelike they are.
For years, AI software has been used to write sports and business reporting, where a set of numbers needs to be turned into more-or-less predictable prose. Bloomberg, for instance, explains that machine learning helps it give its customers what they need as quickly as possible. For all the apocalyptic language around this subject, Hastie says she remains optimistic about robots’ potential. “AI and robotics will change the job landscape, but they will create jobs, too,” she says. “Forty years ago, we didn’t know what a web developer was, and now there’s lots of web developers. We believe there will be new jobs, and they’ll be fulfilling jobs. And people will have more time for leisurely activities.
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