- Oct 2024
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techwontsave.us techwontsave.us
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Obviously, the care workers felt that that was dangerous, so they had to stop him from interacting with Paddle, which was fairly straightforward because he was in a wheelchair, he was in the corner of the room. They could just relocate Paddle to a different table where he couldn’t get to it. But another woman, she would talk to Paddle, with the other people on our table, and then she put it onto her lap and wheel herself back to her room, and put Paddle to bed. She would start talking to it and quite often crying, having a really emotional reaction to it. Eventually refused to eat meals or to sleep unless Paddle was there beside her.
This could be one reason that the robot in Robot & Frank was faceless, and why most robots in current development that I have seen do not have a animal-like or human-like face.
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hrough all of the corrections, there’s this constant building of relationships and through communication. Which becomes important when we move on to talking about the robots.
This building of genuine connections and relationships is likely going to be the most difficult to emulate using robots. Perhaps human care could be more focused on this aspect of caregiving if robots were to take care of the menial aspects.
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The reasons for that are that care work in Japan, like many other places, is really badly paid. It’s often paid a minimum wage level, it can be extremely physically and emotionally demanding.
Even though they do very demanding work, caregivers are not usually compensated enough for the work they do. Removing this could be one of the main benefits of using technology to assist or replace this work.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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In the interests of lowering cost and complexity, these types of robots do not yet resemble humans or talk to users, but deploy smart technology to help people in specific situations.
This seems like the most beneficial form of technological assistance for the elderly with the least amount of drawbacks.
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- Sep 2024
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web.williams.edu web.williams.edu
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"Let's take Speedy's case. Speedy is one of the latest models, extremely specialized, and as expensive as a battleship. It's not a thing to be lightly destroyed." "So?" "So Rule 3 has been strengthened-that was specifically mentioned, by the way, in the advance notices on the SPD models-so that his allergy to danger is unusually high.
As the robots have been innovated, scientists seem to have prioritized the self-preservation aspect because of the expensive nature of the robots. This could represent a relative greed that leads to the danger that Donovan and Powell find themselves in.
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"It didn't help them," muttered Donovan
This comment by Donovan could imply that the use of robots was actually banned on Earth. Perhaps they are only allowed to be used in space programs in the premise of the story.
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There's some sort of danger centering at the selenium pool. It increases as he approaches, and at a certain distance from it the Rule 3 potential, unusually high to start with, exactly balances the Rule 2 potential, unusually low to start with." Donovan rose to his feet in excitement. "And it strikes an equilibrium. I see. Rule 3 drives him back and Rule 2 drives him forward - "
This is a creative and interesting way to show the varying priorities that the robots hold Asimov's three laws. The idea that different tones of voice for commands and sensory information relates to different levels of energy for each rule seems to make sense scientifically as well.
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