Forget everything you know about the zodiacs. It’s not the year of the tiger or the wolf, the yew tree or the Dodge Ram.
It’s the year of the robot.
Here’s a gigantic clue for the computer programmers of the world: WE, THE PEOPLE OF EARTH, DON’T WANT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WE WANT ROBOTS.
Robots are superior to AI. One reason for that superiority is because they don’t need AI. They, the robots, are like humans in this way: they don’t need AI. They (the robots again) only need relatively basic instructions. The instructions needed are those to help accomplish whatever task the robot was built to perform.
Move here. Turn there. Avoid obstacles. Pick up heavy things. Move things elsewhere. Start over.
Of course, that sort of logic makes us think of factories and warehouses. These are the places where robots can be found already.
They are also found doing jobs which would otherwise put a human in a dangerous situation, such as bomb deactivation. That’s also a great place for robots. It’s also a place where robots have been already.
So, let’s talk about one place we absolutely need robots where they haven’t been utilized…yet. The perfect place for a robot is in Congress. First of all the recognizable benefits is we don’t have to pay them. Along those same lines is the fact that a robot would not kowtow to any lobbyist. A robot has no use for money, so it wouldn’t get bribed to vote one way or another. Sure we might be inclined to think a robot couldn’t take sides or vote the way the citizens would, especially the major party of the citizens the robot serves, but we would be thinking too deeply there. A robot with simple instructions would be far better prepared to serve a majority than any complex organism such as a human would. A more simple “brain” would be easier to regulate. With simple instructions for each robot representative, every individual person would easily detect a robot operating outside its set protocol.
Before we carry that to all the sections of the government, remember it would be no good to have a robot in a position where it (that fantastic robot) would be required to pass judgment on a human. So, the justice department is no place for a robot. We wouldn’t want robot judges or robot cops. We have to have people in those jobs because they might be able to exhibit some sympathy toward those they serve. A robot can’t sympathize.
Another place to have robots is wherever there is a bad smell. Plumbers and civil engineers have known this for years. They never send a human down into the sewers if a robot or a remote control rover is available. One super cool thing robots can do, which is like sniffing, but not quite the same, is they can detect the exact makeup of the air around them. If we were trying to find out who was dumping chemicals in the sewer system and the robot detected toluene, we might suspect any nearby paint manufacturers or distributors. If the robot detected boatloads of CO2, we might suspect any nearby coffee bean processing plants.
Call up your local AI and tell it, “Build me a robot.” Or call up your friend the computer programmer and tell him or her to put down the keyboard and pick up a wrench. Tell your friend to get cracking on making more robots. Let’s get robots that make robots, robots that fix robots, robots that fetch the mail and mow the lawn and pick up the dog doo doo, and of course, robots that look perfectly at home in Washington D.C.
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