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I kinda think it would be okay if we had persocoms, but I'd prefer them to be kinda how like Data was in the Star Trek: The Next Generation. Here's some basic info about Data to get what I mean.
Data is an android like Chii was, one of a kind, and could actually think and reason on his own, but he didn't have the ability to express emotions. He was not cold personality wise, he was very helpful and curious about things instead.
A persocom that was like that, who looked like a normal person (I'd have a girl-one obviously) and acted a lot like a normal person, but you could still tell was an android in how they talked, is what I'd want. What I'm meaning is that they'd be in a sort of midway point between how the normal persocoms on Chobits acted and how Chii acted. That's the area that I place Data from ST:TNG in.
Of course, if we did eventually create persocoms, something that might just happen during my lifetime (I'm 23 years old), we'd of course have to spend an exhaustive amount of time on the real moral and ethics issues that their creation would open up and work through those diligently first, with no rushing.
My own persocom, I'd use as an assistant to help me stay on task at home with whatever I'm doing and to remind me of what I'd planned to do during the day, as I get very, very easily sidetracked and distracted when doing leisure-related activities. I'd prefer it to act as a companion, but to remind me that it is a machine first and foremost if I started to get attached to it, and it would in that regard mostly serve to steer me toward finding a real girl to have a serious relationship with. I'd also in that regard, purposely have it look unattractive (not ugly, just rather bland) to help keep myself from getting attached romantically to it.
Data is an android like Chii was, one of a kind, and could actually think and reason on his own, but he didn't have the ability to express emotions. He was not cold personality wise, he was very helpful and curious about things instead.
A persocom that was like that, who looked like a normal person (I'd have a girl-one obviously) and acted a lot like a normal person, but you could still tell was an android in how they talked, is what I'd want. What I'm meaning is that they'd be in a sort of midway point between how the normal persocoms on Chobits acted and how Chii acted. That's the area that I place Data from ST:TNG in.
Of course, if we did eventually create persocoms, something that might just happen during my lifetime (I'm 23 years old), we'd of course have to spend an exhaustive amount of time on the real moral and ethics issues that their creation would open up and work through those diligently first, with no rushing.
My own persocom, I'd use as an assistant to help me stay on task at home with whatever I'm doing and to remind me of what I'd planned to do during the day, as I get very, very easily sidetracked and distracted when doing leisure-related activities. I'd prefer it to act as a companion, but to remind me that it is a machine first and foremost if I started to get attached to it, and it would in that regard mostly serve to steer me toward finding a real girl to have a serious relationship with. I'd also in that regard, purposely have it look unattractive (not ugly, just rather bland) to help keep myself from getting attached romantically to it.
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Here in America I believe that advances in technology such as bipedal machines would not be used in the ideas that we have seen glamorized in Hollywood and even in anime. You've highlighted one problem and that is there will be an ethical question. It would be a question further strengthened by our country which was founded and to a large degree remains on traditional Christian values. Although there has been a noticeable decline in the influence on Christianity as a whole in America I don't think that it will in the future dramatically decline in such a way to alter the majority's beliefs to where people would seriously question having some sort of robotic companion among common populace - it simply wouldn't be accepted.
A second deal - and if you've studied basic economics you'd understand this - is that this technology would be applied to make lives easier, but not in the fantasy way like Chobits or Star Trek has portrayed. Bipedal machines would take jobs. Machines have made areas such as assembly lines and constructing things easier and faster. If bipedal machines could be applied further into these areas, they would be quickly utilized to make processes that humans perform easier. The laws of economics state that while it may be unethical to just take jobs, in the end by having machines perform processes and lessen the workload of people everyone will be better off, even if there are less jobs.
With that being said though, as a teacher on history and applying the above to it, I very often quote massive gains in technology that have been made simply in the 20th century. We went from walking or riding on horses from town to town in the 19th century to flying across oceans, driving vehicles, and flying into space. I don't expect anything of the sort as mentioned such as a bipedal humanoid machine to be common place in my lifetime, but with the massive gains in technology that occur near daily anything could be possible in the future. I guess all I'm saying is don't get your hopes up.
A second deal - and if you've studied basic economics you'd understand this - is that this technology would be applied to make lives easier, but not in the fantasy way like Chobits or Star Trek has portrayed. Bipedal machines would take jobs. Machines have made areas such as assembly lines and constructing things easier and faster. If bipedal machines could be applied further into these areas, they would be quickly utilized to make processes that humans perform easier. The laws of economics state that while it may be unethical to just take jobs, in the end by having machines perform processes and lessen the workload of people everyone will be better off, even if there are less jobs.
With that being said though, as a teacher on history and applying the above to it, I very often quote massive gains in technology that have been made simply in the 20th century. We went from walking or riding on horses from town to town in the 19th century to flying across oceans, driving vehicles, and flying into space. I don't expect anything of the sort as mentioned such as a bipedal humanoid machine to be common place in my lifetime, but with the massive gains in technology that occur near daily anything could be possible in the future. I guess all I'm saying is don't get your hopes up.
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Such a thing will only be used if their cost/output is better than that of a human's considering quality, waste and time etc. I believe they will be used in the future industrially. Machines are already being used, just not in this form, for decades already.
I remember one japanese ramen house where a robot prepares the ramen, theres only the chef and the robot running the entire shop.
Why wont it be used everywhere, the cost of a 'Data' or 'Chii' like robot would probably be equal to getting 200 minimum wage humans, 1000 if youre in china i guess
I would like to have one. It would even be better to work on such a project.
I would say, the best 'Data' vs the best 'Human' on any field, I think the robot would win... probably unless its the humor category or something about being creative but who knows
I remember one japanese ramen house where a robot prepares the ramen, theres only the chef and the robot running the entire shop.
Why wont it be used everywhere, the cost of a 'Data' or 'Chii' like robot would probably be equal to getting 200 minimum wage humans, 1000 if youre in china i guess
I would like to have one. It would even be better to work on such a project.
I would say, the best 'Data' vs the best 'Human' on any field, I think the robot would win... probably unless its the humor category or something about being creative but who knows