Question of the Day
Recent events such as the October 25th Singularity Summit in San Jose, California and the military favoring drones not just for spying, but for offensive tactics as well, not to mention the release of the G1, it seems that the age of our robot overlords may soon be upon us. My question is – when robots take over the world, will they have a sense of humor and make robots that look like Arnold Schwarzenegger circa The Terminator and Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith from the Matrix?
Follow up question, would we find it funny?
Bradley Robb likes TV and books, and has an intense dislike for cinnamon. Once, Bradley stopped a Soviet T-60 with his middle finger. Bradley writes speculative fiction and edits Fiction Matters, and never really got the hang of talking about himself in the third person.
Hopefully more like Summer Glau from The Sarah Conner Chronicles. In light of that not happening…I’m going Terminator…just too ironic.
That asks the second question, do robots get irony? We know that hipsters do, and they’re basically robots…
If our future resembles the Sarah Conner Chronicles, I will find a way to leave the planet.
Robots, I believe, will have a sense of twisted irony that doesn’t quite qualify as a sense of humor.
Only slightly joking, why if robots can make their own forms, would they choose a form similar to that of the people they’re trying to wipe out when there are so many more efficient forms for killing.
However, Summer Glau wouldn’t be a bad form for luring teenagers away from safety so the robots could make batteries out of them.
Well, technology has been inspired by or designed based on a previous era’s science fiction before, so it’s possible. Though, if one wants to be technical, Agent Smith was a computer program, not a robot or cyborg.
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