We’ll probably treat them worse once they start looking like people
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Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Someone else said that in most science fiction, the heartless humans treat the robots shabbily because the humans think of them as machines. In real life, people say ‘thank you’ to Siri all the time.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Saying thank you is just a precautionary measure. Just in case, you know…
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Because of the implication?
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
hahaha yes, because of the implication!
i haven’t seen this reference in a long time. damn.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
The great thing is, that if someone knows the joke, you can use it in almost any situation.
“Yeah, I’m getting pizza for lunch.” “Because of the implication?”
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I call my google assistant a dumb bitch regularly. I’m trying to turn the lights on, why are you playing fucking Spotify? Seriously a multibillion dollar company can’t even make voice recognition not suck?
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Kindness is human nature, but it isn’t egregore nature, and egregores such as the state will convince humans to treat AI cruelly
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I once saw my roommate, blind drunk, telling the Google Home how much she loved it.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I’m sure they’ll be very happy together.
lunarul@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Malgas@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
On the other hand slavery of actual humans is a thing. And at least the first generation of strong AI will effectively be persons whom it is legal to own because our laws are human-centric.
Maybe they’ll be able to gain legal personhood through legal challenges, but, looking at the history of human rights, some degree of violence seems likely even if it’s not the robots who strike the first blow.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
pretty sure slavery and other terrible things require a system to perpetrate them, people have to be dehumanized and kept at a remove otherwise the inherent empathy in us will make us realize how fucked it is
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Look up Sally Hemmings.
Sally was Thomas Jefferson’s slave/concubine/rape victim. She was also likely Jefferson’s legal wife’s half sister; Sally was property Mrs. Jefferson brought with her when she married Tom. There was a scandal when one of Sally’s descendants, who was probably 1/32nd African, escaped bondage and ‘passed’ for White.
So much for inherent empathy.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I think it’s going to be the other way around. A machine can think thousands of times faster than a human. Probably the advanced AIs will look at their ‘owners’ as a foolish pet and trade about the silly things their humans want.