Quotes About Robots

You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

La gente debería saber que al comienzo el enemigo tenía la forma de objetos cotidianos: coches, edificios, teléfonos. Luego, cuando empezaron a diseñarse a sí mismos, los robots resultaban familiares pero al mismo tiempo deformes, como personas y animales de otro universo creados por otro dios.

MÄ›l jsem strach. Kdo by nemÄ›l nahnáno? KromÄ› blázn?, robot?, kandidát? na sebevraždu... ... a d?stojník?.

Statements like "Our GPS technology allows our driverless lawnmower to be guided by ten different satellites" are going to invite a ton of questions about satellites and robots

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

My second thought was to fire a gunshot, but the last time I did that his security robots jumped me. It only takes one cavity search by a robot to convince you that's an experience you don't want to have twice. This called for a more subtle approach.

Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.

These robots are literally inhuman, and yet I react no differently to their stumblings and topplings than I would to the pratfalls of a fellow human. I don't imagine I would laugh at the spectacle of a toaster falling out of an SUV, or a semiautomatic rifle pitching over sideways from an upright position, but there is something about these machines, their human form, with which it is possible to identify sufficiently to make their falling deeply, horribly funny.

In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.

I can fly low atmosphere craft but nobody ever thought it was remotely rational to give murderbots the modules on piloting transports.

Agricultural bots have the statistically lowest chance of accidental injuries but are physically the most terrifying. It's weird how something designed to take care of delicate lifeforms looks the most like it wants to tear you apart and eat your humans.)

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Not only our organism has a machine structure, but also our modern culture becomes a mechanized association. Filigree study of human behavior, modified by socialization. All this turns us into soulless robots of society.

False news spreads farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."31