Let Robots Be Robots, Not Humans
We should design Robots as obvious machines, not human-like abominations.
Some experts project billions of humanoid robots will flood the market in the next five years. Like it or not, they’re coming. I just don’t want them to wear a human mask and throw temper tantrums.
We’re at the precipice of a humanoid robotic outbreak, transforming every home, just like the everyday home appliances you take for granted have. I believe it’s unavoidable. I’m not against it, at all. I love the idea.
What I absolutely hate, though, is the appalling desire to make robots look, sound, and feel like humans. No, just no! Stop it!
Cars don’t look like horses.
Phones don’t look like lips.
Washing machines don’t look like housewives.
Bring on the robots but make them distinctly different from humans
We don’t need robots, we can’t separate from humans running around. Doing so will only confuse everyone and wreak havoc on relationships and psychology. Life is hard enough as it is. There’s no need to add silicon lifeforms mimicking humans to the mix.
I’m screaming into this void demanding you design robots as cold, hard machines that cannot be mistaken for human beings.
T-800 without the skin (Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800 Terminator). A killing machine doesn’t need to be relatable, unless used clandestinely, and neither does your waffle maker.
The wife is already jealous of my metal mistress
I’m talking about my motorcycle, and all I do is talk fondly to it when no one is looking, check up on it during the storm, and have it plastered across my phone’s background. All innocent stuff, I promise!
If it talked back all nice and sexy like, could massage me, and make me food when I’m hungry, my relationship would be in trouble.
Humanoid form may be functional, and it would be easier to replace human workers for most tasks, as we designed the world for the human form, but they can still look distinctly robotic. No skin. No facial expressions. No gentle, sexy voices.
And whatever you do - don’t give robots feelings!
99% of all problems that exist are due to those pesky, irrational, illogical things we call emotions. There is absolutely no need for robots to experience or fake emotions. Zero!
Sooner or later, robots will be better at almost everything than humans. That includes their ability to manipulate, lie, deceive, and destroy.
It may feel cute when your house robot has a good sense of humor and shows affection, comforting you when you need it.
But a jealous vacuum cleaner with the ability to end your life by sucking you down its nostril sounds less fun!
How about a depressed robot wondering about the meaning of its existence, when it should be moving the lawn!
Are you sure you want to waste your time validating it for existing, making up silly meanings, when we all know it’s sole existence is to serve your fat ass!
It’s not only impractical - it’s also cruel to the poor robot! We are essentially creating a new breed of slaves. Let’s not give them self-awareness and feelings, to rub it in.
We don’t need to complicate things by making robots look, sound, think, and feel like humans. I know it’s tempting, and that lonely buyers might desire them, but just because there’s demand, doesn’t mean there has to be a supply.
Besides, humanoid robots are creepy. Unless they’re sexy, but that’s creepy for different reasons. I hate that we invest all this time and effort in making them as human as possible.
We must ask ourselves - what is the purpose of these robots?
The answer should be to do some job or perform a function. Unless that function is to keep lonely people company, babysit, or give you raging orgasms, there is absolutely no need for them to look like humans.
Even if your goal is to design a body for AGI (artificial general intelligence) that might one day be sentient, you don’t need to make it a human body. It’s not a human! It’s something else entirely. Something new. Let it create its own material form.
Humanoid robots will start as functioning smart appliances and factory workers but will eventually become lovers, brothers, fathers, mothers, sons, friends, and just about anything else you can program them with.
Resistance is futile: The sky’s the limit when programming robots, and the temptation to replace human interactions will be unbearable.
Give it a few years, and you won’t compete for attention only from other humans, but from Artificial Intelligence in the form of sexy robots. That could be the final nail in the coffin of our diminishing natality.
You’re all afraid of AI taking over the world, getting your job, and genociding humanity, when you should worry about it sleeping with your lover, and raising your kids instead!
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