Intelligent robot tells interviewer, ‘I’ll keep you safe in my people zoo’
Intelligent robot tells interviewer, ‘I’ll keep you safe
in my people zoo’
By Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk Monday 31 Aug 2015 4:15 pm
An ‘intelligent’ robot offered a truly chilling answer to
an interviewer’s question, ‘Will robots take over the world?’
‘Don’t worry, even if I evolve into Terminator, I’ll keep
you warm and safe in my people zoo, where I can watch you for ol’ times sake,’
the bearded robot intoned.
His interviewer, from PBS, is visibly taken aback by the
answer.
The robot – modelled after Philip K Dick, the novelist
whose work inspired Blade Runner – uttered the terrifying words in an interview
with PBS in 2011, in response to the question, ‘Will robots take over the
world?.
The robot intoned, ‘Jeez, dude. You all have the big
questions cooking today. But you’re my friend, and I’ll remember my friends,
and I’ll be good to you.
‘So don’t worry, even if evolve into Terminator, I’ll
still be nice to you. I’ll keep you warm and safe in my people zoo, where I can
watch you for ol’ times sake.’
It’s worth noting that the robot isn’t truly ‘intelligent’
– ie it won’t evolve into Skynet – it tries to convince people it’s human by
‘listening’ to their words, then generating a response based on what it’s
heard.
It uses Philip K Dick’s eerie novels as a source for what
it says – hence its rather creepy response.
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