Moya, ‘the World’s First Biomimetic Robot’ Emulates Human Features Down to Body Temperature

[Bohandas]

"92% human-like walking accuracy".

I don't know why people keep trying to make robots that walk on two legs. Just make a spider bot! It's more stable!

 

[Reynard]

In all seriousness: there should be an international agreement backed up by laws in every country to make human-passing androids illegal. Require inhuman skin colors and other features.

 

[Deset Gled]

"92% human-like walking accuracy".

In all seriousness: there should be an international agreement backed up by laws in every country to make human-passing androids illegal. Require inhuman skin colors and other features.

I have no idea what the logic behind this is.

 

[Reynard]

I have no idea what the logic behind this is.

The lifelike nature of androids will only improve. We do not want to live in a world where an android is casually indiscernible from a human.

 

[Deset Gled]

The lifelike nature of androids will only improve. We do not want to live in a world where an android is casually indiscernible from a human.

That sounds a lot more like a phobia than a reason for a law. I don't think an international treaty that will decide how realistic the animatronics at Chuck E Cheese, movie FX, or dancing Santa decorations can be would be particularly useful for anyone. If anything, sounds like a great backdoor into censorship more than anything else. Who gets to decide what's art and what's a scary robot?

 

[Reynard]

That sounds a lot more like a phobia than a reason for a law. I don't think an international treaty that will decide how realistic the animatronics at Chuck E Cheese, movie FX, or dancing Santa decorations can be would be particularly useful for anyone.

Is Chuck E. Cheese casually indiscernable from a human being?

If anything, sounds like a great backdoor into censorship more than anything else. Who gets to decide what's art and what's a scary robot?

You legitimately see no danger in perfectly human androids? You can't imagine how bad actors would use those to cause real harm in any number of spheres?

 

[Tonguez]

That sounds a lot more like a phobia than a reason for a law. I don't think an international treaty that will decide how realistic the animatronics at Chuck E Cheese, movie FX, or dancing Santa decorations can be would be particularly useful for anyone. If anything, sounds like a great backdoor into censorship more than anything else. Who gets to decide what's art and what's a scary robot?

Already AI Images and Video is facing this very question, with AI images being hyper-realistic and able to reproduce the image of real people and then put them into compromising positions. The same concerns probably will arise with hyper-realistic androids.

It is a little scary not knowing if a particular person you are interacting with online is real or AI, luckily there are still AI tells, but those are being addressed. How much more so when that 'person' has a physical body to interact with

 

[Deset Gled]

Is Chuck E. Cheese casually indiscernable from a human being?

The lifelike nature of androids will only improve.

You legitimately see no danger in perfectly human androids? You can't imagine how bad actors would use those to cause real harm in any number of spheres?

I see no danger that is not already present in the form of a human bad actor. You have not presented any novel harm that doesn't already exist. As dangerous tools go, lifelike androids are pretty far down on my list.

Already AI Images and Video is facing this very question, with AI images being hyper-realistic and able to reproduce the image of real people and then put them into compromising positions. The same concerns probably will arise with hyper-realistic androids.

It is a little scary not knowing if a particular person you are interacting with online is real or AI, luckily there are still AI tells, but those are being addressed. How much more so when that 'person' has a physical body to interact with

That's just another AI discussion thread. Any chance we could discuss robots here instead of just another threadjack to yet another thread repeat on that subject?

 

[payn]

Just wait until the next variety!

 

[Bohandas]

People just have to stop trusting photos. We didn't have photography until 1822 and we didn't have convenient photography until 1999. They are not essential.