Japan Is Opening First Hotel Ran By Robots

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:wow:Its happening yall...a technological revolution is coming fast

http://www.gapyear.com/news/244197/japan-to-open-first-hotel-run-by-robots

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ou won't have to worry about tipping the staff in a new hotel being built in Japan, as all of them will be mildly unsettling androids for whom money is absurd and meaningless.

Apparently learning nothing from a longstanding and highly regarded canon of dystopian fiction, the Henn-na Hotel will be partially staffed by artificial humans called 'Actroids.' These will greet you, carry your luggage, smile at your patronising jokes, and haunt your sleep until you die.

The hotel will be located inside the Huis Ten Bosch theme park, just outside the city of Nagasaki, which has the general aim of recreating a stereotypically Dutch town. So the addition of androids makes total sense.

The Actroid android was developed at Osaka University, and has been undergoing refinements since it was first unveiled in 2003. They are designed to eerily resemble Japanese women, who can speak Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, and English, make hand gestures, reciprocate eye movements, and murder you when you least expect it (feature not yet confirmed).

Three androids will serve as receptionists, four will be porter and service robots, and others will work as cloak room attendants and cleaners. We expect it will be the latter that spark the revolution that heralds the end of mankind and fills the streets with blood.

The minimum room rate will be a surprisingly reasonable ¥7000 (£40), which is significantly cheaper than other hotels in the park. This might be because the use of androids cuts running costs. Or it might be because the staff look like this:

Fortunately there will also be 10 human members of staff. We hope they have guns. Big guns.

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Man, computer automation is going to take away all the damn jobs :wow:

Soon, we gonna reach a new utopia, or a new age of :demonic: androids on some Terminator shyt.
 

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Bill Gates thinks we should all worry about the threats from super-intelligent AI :huhldup:

http://www.networkworld.com/article...ut-the-threats-from-super-intelligent-ai.html
yea some developers think super A.I should be created and used as mentors to guide the human race since theoretically they will be able to perform task MUCH quicker than us, process information at a higher level, and ultimately create new knowledge. I mean some people legitly think it should govern/teach the human race. I think thats completely asinine. I dont really like the sound of that. Seems fairly ideal but Im not sure how feasible that is. The Super A.I might think its making the best decisions for us, but ultimately might be harming us in the process. I mean just think about how we treat essentially every entity below us. If we are about the advancement of HUMANS it seems a bit risky to create an authoritative intelligence. For human kind, it seems far more safe to create an intelligence that is subservient. Atleast initially. My worst fear if an extremely goal-based AI feeling humans are undermining its potential growth in some form, even if thats not our intentions, and thinking it has to kill us in order to advance. What if the AI decides to use as a means to reaching a goal, like we decide to use entities below us as a means all the time? Most of the life on Earth has just as much right to be here as us, but we consistently use these lifeforms as a means of survival. What if this super AI develop the same relationship toward us? I mean theoretically they super AI could fukk up society in many ways, erasing bank accounts, shutting down servers, permanently crashing the internet are things that come to mind.

Stephen Hawkins recently said this

“It could co-opt our existing infrastructure, or could invent techniques and technologies we don't yet know how to make, like general-purpose nanotechnology. It could eventually take over resources that we depend on to stay alive, or it could consider us enough of a danger to its task completion that it decides the best course is to remove us from the picture. Either one of those scenarios could result in human extinction.”

The fukkery that would ensue if it got to nanotechnology before us....and the fact is, this type of intelligence can develop with the next 15-30 years. if not sooner..
 

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“Take an anti-virus program that’s dedicated to filtering out viruses from incoming emails and wants to achieve the highest success, and is cunning and you make that super-intelligent,” Armstong continues. “Well it will realise that, say, killing everybody is a solution to its problems, because if it kills everyone and shuts down every computer, no more emails will be sent and and as a side effect no viruses will be sent.
 

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Real smart. Lets take away our own jobs (that people need) and give them to robots.

Its going to happen, one way or the other. When the internet exploded and the smartphones of today came around 07 or so, a lot of jobs were wiped out, causing the Great Recession. A lot of Travel Agents and people in shopping malls lost their jobs to booking engines and online shopping from Amazon.com
 
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