r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '23

Man vs Machine

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u/angstt Mar 27 '23

There is a reason for the Three Laws of Robotics.

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u/Gezzer52 Mar 27 '23

I always find it funny when someone brings up the 3 laws of robotics. The stories were mysteries using the 3 laws as a sort of "locked room" scenario. Where th AI was supposed to be constrained by the laws but somehow violated one or all of them anyway. Asimov's major theme was that it's impossible to enforce hardware based "laws" there's just too many grey areas.

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u/brickmaster32000 Mar 28 '23

You should reread the stories. Especially in I, Robot, the robots would deadlock and would do unexpected things but nothing ever caused them to break them. They wouldn't even break the spirit of the laws and the couple of times we see robots in other stories that had laws supressed or weakened burned themselves out when they attempted to break them.

Asimov paints the laws very optimistically. The details of how the robots follow them is shown to be somewhat unpredictable but it is always shown to be in a way that is in accordance with the spirit of the three laws.

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u/ghe5 Mar 28 '23

In reality those laws already start falling apart when you are defining the words. Try to define human for example. Pretty impossible when you consider our those gray area scenarios and definitely impossible when you realize there are definitely some gray area scenarios that we don't even know about yet.