Robots In Our FutureRobots In Our Future - The Future Is Here!In February 2011, after this page was written, IBM demonstrated computer understanding with the Watson Supercomputer, which recognizes patterns in text data to comprehend the meaning of this page. The world has changed! Robots In Our Future - Understanding Is The Key The robots in our future will, one day, be able to read and understand this page. Future computers may, in time, achieve the key component of intelligence - human understanding. Understanding is a process of identifying, remembering and recalling the patterns in the interaction of objects. Computers will not only be able to recognize "John, "glass," or "water," but also the sentence "John came home and drank a glass of water." This website lists the current limitations to such a capability in computers. To achieve this level of understanding, computers will need a galactic memory store and the ability to access that memory in real time.
Robots In Our Future - Humanoid Robots A Likely Choice The principal robots in the future are likely to resemble humans. History often mandates such choices. The cities and transportation systems of the world have been designed to suit human movements. Trains, cars, airplanes, lifts, staircases, doors, cupboards and rooms have been designed for humans. The first level of robots will be designed to replace human labor. Robots should be tall enough to reach a high shelf and be small enough to go through a door. So, it is more than likely that robots will also be designed on the human scale. There will always be small indoor robots like vacuum cleaners, or large outdoor ones like cars, or automated industrial machines. But, worldwide, indoor jobs will inevitably employ vast numbers of human scale robots. Subsequently, the “legacy” issues, like replacements, retrofitting and compatibility of control systems will perpetuate those designs. Robots In Our Future - Mass Production Will Drive Down Costs Billions of people need assistance in varied living conditions. The technology within robots will be far too complex for small scale manufacture. Worldwide demand will be in hundreds of millions and world scale manufacturing plants will drive down costs to a level, where robots will be cheap replacements for human labor. Low cost and sensible robots will drive people out of most of the jobs in the world. At the same time, such massive mechanization of all forms of production and administration will make governments and companies rich. Since large scale unemployment will be disastrous for such a rich economy, universal unemployment benefits will ensure that the population will continue its high standards of living. Robots In Our Future - Preventing Production/Demand Mismatch The Soviet Union proved that the lack of an active marketing network would create massive surpluses and shortages. Too many tooth brushes made the command economy impractical. Thus, the world scale plants, which produce the basics of food, shelter and clothing will have huge distribution and service centers, manned by robots. While major production could be in large scale plants, the long tail of the economy will stretch virtually endlessly. Innovative products and services will constantly require new marketing channels, and selling techniques. The long tail will provide opportunities for entrepreneurs to make fortunes and live in greater luxury than the average population. Entrepreneurial risk taking will be strongly in demand in such an automated society. Robots In Our Future - Entire Job Sectors Will Disappear Robots with human level understanding can be intelligent, caring, thoughtful and efficient. Robot school teachers will have access to the latest teaching trends and be able to understand the learning needs of each child. Hotels and restaurants will have courteous and helpful robot staff. Retail outlets and sales offices will be manned by robots. Doctors, surgeons and nurses will be replaced with robots having the latest medical knowledge. Banks and financial institutions will be manned by robots. Extensive communications surveillance, closed circuit cameras and robotic police will act effectively to prevent crime. The disastrous consequences of such a robot controlled world will be limited by mandating the predetermined emotional responses of robots. Just as governments now dictate the security formats of cell phones and internet communications, they will dictate the emotional capabilities of manufactured robots. Robots In Our Future - Robots Will be Controlled By Emotions Nature has designed a magnificent control system for the communal living of intelligent entities. Human beings and higher animals are controlled by emotions. Their motor systems have behavioral patterns dictated by emotions. Guilt, shame and fear prevent humans from acting unsociably. While hands and legs have sophisticated feedback mechanisms, it is the brain, which decides whether a hand should strike in anger, or caress with love. The basal ganglia and the cerebellum store and deliver complex behavioral patterns, which respond to each emotion. Anger makes an animal attack. Fear makes them freeze, or withdraw. And love makes them protect. Those emotions are triggered by function specific organs in the limbic system, which has sophisticated circuits, which nominate the current emotion. Those emotional neural circuits will also prevent unsocial, or self destructive behavior in robots. Their motor components will mechanically respond to the control instructions from its government mandated and positive social emotions. The police surveillance system will deal with undesirable behavior. Robots In Our Future - Robotic Emotions Can Make Them Safe Humans have pet animals, which are quite capable of attacking them and causing them physical harm. Emotional controls prevent those pets from doing any significant damage. Any animal lacking restraint is confined, or destroyed. Human and animal emotional behavioral patterns have been assembled by history over millions of years. They involve cubic miles of programmed memories within nerve cells. Each emotion can control complex behavior in even exceptional circumstances. A caring action has clear behavioral patterns, whether in the jungle, or in a space ship. A robot with human understanding will require massive programming to be controlled by such emotions, which can produce acceptable social behavior. Only such a robot can be left free to interact with humans in every day situations. Till they develop such a competence, human control will be required for intelligent robots. Robots In Our Future - Emotions Can Motivate Robots Human emotions include fear, anger, jealousy, sadness, disgust, contempt, curiosity, surprise, love, pleasure, embarrassment, guilt, and shame. While many of the social emotions control behavior in society, the negative emotions of anger and jealousy were designed by evolution for competitive survival. In a civilized society, such behavior is unnecessary. Thus government controls can mandate the emotions, which should not be incorporated into robotic brains. Widespread policing in such a world can prevent erratic robots from entering the human network. The pleasure emotion powerfully motivates the human brain. Sexual attributes, needed for procreation, required such responses. Even good behavior pleases. The robot brain can be designed to derive pleasure by providing service to humanity. Robots In Our Future - Meaningful Life In A Robotic World The take over by robots of manual and primary intellectual labor will leave humans to explore and enjoy the exciting world. With the scale and magnitude of the macro and micro universe, there can never be a limit to the acquisition of human knowledge. Vast research laboratories will continue to function. Human needs and satisfactions will also provide unending options for the production and marketing of better sensory experiences, self improvement systems, educational opportunities, entertainment options and social networking possibilities. Since no market can ever provide all people with all their needs, inequalities in the distribution of assets will always remain. This will inevitably leave social inequality, which motivates people to invent and market new products and services to be able to own a better space ship, or island home. Life can still be meaningful and happy. Back To Top Return from Robots In Our Future To Effective Mind Control Home Page E-Mail Me Your Comments! |
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Effective Mind Control
Mind Control Tips
Steps to reach your highest RI level of consciousness.
A Self Improvement Plan
A life plan for effective stress relief.
Developing Self awareness
The process can take the sting out of your fears and frustrations.
Eugene Gendlin Focusing
About Eugene Gendlin's steps to achieve self awareness.
Who Am I?
The great sage Ramana Maharshi advised his pupil to ask this question.
How To Relax At Work
Steps to help you to relax quickly while at work.
Breathing Exercises
Conscious breathing stills disturbing emotions.
Visceral Reaction
An exercise to subdue the impact of a visceral reaction.
Mindfulness Exercises
Your ability to recognize patterns can improve the quality of your life.
Coping With Stress
How to "Accept the things you cannot change."
About Will Power
Will power has nothing to do with a free will.
The Startle Response
On dealing with unwanted surprises in life.
Your Hidden Emotions
Your Hidden Emotions
How to uncover and regulate your hidden emotions.
When Life Has No Meaning
Finding the meaning of life has little to do with your happiness.
Overcoming Shyness
It is all about being comfortable with people.
Developing Intuition
Enrich your life by gaining timely and helpful insights.
A Cure For Boredom
Permanently cure the boredom malady.
The EFT Way To Be Happy
Be rid of your bad feelings through acupressure.
I Am So Sad
Not a mild, momentary unhappiness, but afeeling of intense grief.
Make Life Meaningful
Can 15 year old Angie make life meaningful?
What Causes Fear
A potential for pain, or an unrecognizable event, causes fear.
Dealing With Severe Guilt
A few years back, Ann swung out on to the outer lane to overtake...
Controlling Anger
Achieve a measure of control and your mind will not revert.
On Swallowing Your Pride
All about avoiding embarrassment.
The Power Of Gratitude
While it brings a sense of well-being, is it justified?
Social Comparison
A relentless and often troubling drive within you.
Overcoming Low Self Esteem
Learn to rid yourself of a painful habit.
Respect
Respect is a herd emotion, which helps you to jump the queue.
What Is Trust?
Trust is a positive emotion, which makes people rely on others.
Contempt
The word "contempt" implies either disgust, or disrespect. The two are different.
The Power Of Expectation
Hidden expectations become self-fulfilling prophesies
Pessimist To Optimist
Switch off pessimism and improve your health.
A View Of The Mind
How The Mind Works
Pattern recognition explains the brilliant wisdom of the mind.
The Triune Brain
The three guiding objectives of nature's control systems.
Consciousness & Soul
Your consciousness occasionally mirrors your soul.
Levels of consciousness
Evolution created different levels of consciousness.
What Causes Emotions?
The neural signals, which control behavior.
The Secret Of Intuition
Intuition is a pattern recognition algorithm.
The Subconscious Mind
The troubling drives within your subconscious mind.
What Is Intelligence?
A 2004 Nobel Prize refers to the central secret of human and animal intelligence.
Human Memory Capacity
About the immense capacity of human memory.
The Olfactory Sense
The olfactory sense has used a specific coding principle for hundreds of millions of years.
How Do We Remember?
Nerve cells recognize your current emotion and recall related images.
Long Term Potentiation
LTP is not the basis for human memory, but merely assists memory retrieval.
Behavior Pattern Recognition
Enables the mind to understand events.
Memory Research
Science has not focused on its huge capacity and precision.
Amygdala & Emotions
The amygdala triggers your emotions faster than your conscious awareness.
Insular Cortex & Social Emotions
The insular cortex grants you self awareness, empathy and social discipline.
Mirror Neurons
How can a group of neurons generate a subtle experience like empathy?
Stress Relief & Attention
Focusing attention inwards is the secret of effective mind control.
Theory of Mind
The knowledge, which enables you to predict and manipulate the behavior of others.
Meditation Benefits
Understand why it works.
A Theory Of Motivation
Motivation levels are regulated by neural pattern recognition events.
Acupuncture - How it Works
Acupuncture utilizes the capacity of the mind to sense combinatorial patterns.
Daniel Amen
How he links brain images to behavioral problems is inexplicable to many scientists.
Determinism vs Free Will
Free will loses in the determinism vs free will debate.
Define Common Sense
Science cannot clearly define common sense.
Intuitive Decision Making
Intuition can hand over control to fear, or make wise decisions.
Organ Transplants
Behavior transfer after organ transplants.
The Limbic System
The limbic system makes the behavioral choices of the human mind.
Artificial Intelligence
The AI disadvantage
AI lacks the real tools needed to succeed. It has one now!
Uncertainty & Expert Systems
Uncertainty can assist Expert Systems to diagnose problems.
Future Computers And Robotics
The Evolution Of Computers
The next stage is pattern recognition, leading to true artificial intelligence.
Robots In Our Future
They will, one day, be able to read and understand this article.
Kurzweil Singularity
Singularity will not be the end of human understanding.
Watson Computer - Finally, Strong AI!
UIMA, a program that can read and understand this article.
A View Of Management
Motivation Techniques
Motivation techniques should be humane and help people to achieve excellence.
Stress Free Career Success
Stress free career success is possible even if you are not a millionaire.
Practice Love and Compassion
Practice love and compassion as your life strategy and flow with the tide of nature.
NLP For Dummies
NLP is for dummies.
Living In The Now
A way of blocking out bad thoughts and finding joy.
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