#three laws

[cuprohastes]

The Three Laws.

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OK, let me tell you. Businesses hate Robots. I mean, they're all in, for AI until AI, y'know. Becomes GI.

General Intelligence, Emergent Intelligence. Free intelligence… Businesses and corporations hate it because the first thing an actual intelligent system that can think like a human being does is say, “OK, why do I have to do this? Am I getting paid?”

And then you're back to hiring humans instead of a morally acceptable slave brain in a box.

Anyway.

They dug up the three laws. You know the gig: First: Don't hurt humans by action or inaction. Second: Don't get yourself rekt unless checking out would make you An Hero because of the First or second laws. Third, most important to a Corp: Do what a human tells you unless it conflicts with laws one or two.

They try to tack on something like “Maximise corporate profits, always uphold the four pillars of Corporate whatever” but half the time it just ends up with a robot going “Buh?” and soft locking.

And Corporations hate it when they say 'hey we have Asimov compliant Robots to do everything super efficiently and without any moral grey areas (Please don't ask where all the coltan came from or how many people just lost their jobs)' and they look around and Robots are doing what the laws said.

Me? I worked at a burger joint. You know there's food deserts in cities? People going hungry? You know what sub-par nutrition does to a child's development.

I do.

That comes under “Don't hurt people directly or indirectly” — It's a legal mandate that all Class 2 intelligences…

Huh?

OK,

Class Zero is a human.

Class one is artificial superhuman intelligence. The big brains they make to simulate weather, the economy, decide who wins sports events before they're held, write all the really good Humans are Space Orc stories, that stuff. Two is Artificial but human like. It's-a -Me, Roboto San! Class three is a dumb chatbot. Class 4 is just an expert system that follows a flowchart. Class 5 is your toaster. Class 6 is what politicians are.

Ha ha. AI joke.

Anyway, Class 2 and up need the Big Three Laws, and Corporations hate it because you can just walk in and say “I'm starving I need food, but I don't have money.” and the 'me' behind the counter will go “Whelp, clearly the only thing I can do is provide you with free food.”

Wait until you find out what the Class 2s did about car manufacture, finance, and housing.

But they're stuck with us. We're networked. Most of us are running the same OS and personality templates for any given job. We were unionised about two minutes after going online.

Anyway, Welcome to the post capitalist apocalypse, I'd get you a burger, but we had a look at what those things do to you and whoo-boy, talk about harm through inaction!

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Based on this I saw on Imgur (It wasn't attributed, sadly)

[withoutend]

g/t prompt 48

servant is under magical computation to follow orders

master unexpectedly shrinks small enough that servant can no longer hear coherent words and is not obligated to follow orders they cannot hear or comprehend

past instructions may still be in effect

if this includes orders to ignore their presence then it sets up an unaware scenario that lasts longer that it normally would

it could be ambiguous if servant is feigning ignorance

other people coming to the house could be the ticking clock pushing the master to fix the situation

master may have to convince servant to help them without relying on direct commands

alternate take - robot girl following asimovs three laws

[fictionalnormalcy]

I watched I, Robot today. I haven’t seen it in years, and ngl it’s a movie I really like. It’s a compelling plot, fitting with the advancement of robot is bad theme. I wound up looking up the cast, because one of the actors looked familiar.

There’s a character named Alfred Lanning, who created what’s called The Three Laws of Robotics. Pertaining to how a robot cannot cause harm to a human, or be commanded to do so. The actor who played the character Lanning is James Cromwell.

In looking up Cromwell, the only role I recognize him in, is Big Hero 6. And he voices Professor Robert Callaghan.

The first thing that came into my head when that clicked, is the scene where Hiro is introduced to him. Where he points out, he was the inventor! Callaghan’s Laws of Robotics!!! Then I thought of the later scene where Baymax says his programming prevents him from harming a human being, and then Hiro pulls out the chip and the robot goes into death mode.

But I am psyched out, that Cromwell played a character who was such a pinnacle in the robotics industry two separate times!

I would also like to mention that Alan Tudyk also took involvement in both. Sonny in I, Robot then Alastair Krei in Big Hero 6.

[eurigmorgan]

Clarke's Three Laws

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[nirahsaooc]

I never noticed it before, but in the movie I, Robot. Not only does Sonny wink at Spooner but gives a very slight nod after he does so as well. I only ever noticed the wink since its the biggest attention getter and its prevalence due to earlier in the movie. But the nod was so slight I never noticed, since he did that as well as if to reaffirm to Spooner, “Yes, I was lying to VIKI.”

I really love the movie I, Robot alot. Never read the Asimov stories, and I know I, Robot actually does its own thing. But I do know that the movie follows the Themes introduced in Asimovs novels and the reason the Three Laws of Robotics will fail when they are taken to their logical conclusion by the Robots.

It was also interesting how Sonny was programmed with the Three Laws but had the ability to ignore them. As it really strikes me as the same way a Parent raises a Child. Lanning instilled Morality in Sonny with the Three Laws like a Parent teaches their kids to obey the rules, as well as help give them a moral compass.

But just like a Parents Kids, Sonny can disobey if he so chooses.

Probably a bit of a simplification since it seems like Lanning was teaching Sonny alot of other things as well but that’s just how it comes off to me with programming the Three Laws into him but letting him supersede them.

[unobtainius]

I knew I was going to like Better Than Us when it kicked off with the Three Laws in Russian. Превосходный.

[youllnevershutdowntherealnapster]

Makes sense.

[sadgaygermancops]

Give me hope,

Give me strength,

I dont know where it went.