I, Robot: the war begins. In South Korea, for the first time in recorded history and in flagrant defiance of Issac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics—“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”—a robot with artificial intelligence has attacked a human being.
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Just as an aside, to show just how backwards they are in South Korea, it's not bad enough that they routinely sleep on the floor, but their emergency phone number is 119. :-o
I don't care what the culture is, anyone turning one of these loose,then laying down for asnoozeonthe floor is deserving of a Darwin Award nomination.
The really fancy ones start automatically, at a set time. I hear people like to set them to run while they're asleep.
They sound like a fan... or rain on the roof. Sigh you yo sleep...
Uhm... I feel like laughing is that bad? :-/
This story sucks.
Good IHTM journalism does not happen in a vacuum.
So sorry. I'll see you get your money back.
@PsychoDad
Listened to the radio show it with the kids, they loved it. Good stuff!
“A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”
If you really want to explore the full implications of that noble (rather Progressive) sentiment, look up a short story called "With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson. It isn't deliberately riffing on the Asimov theme, I don't think, just a look at the idea from a different perspective.
Hey cool! Here's the radio version, on the good ol' Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/DimensionX500415WithFoldedHands
Thanks. Look forward to listening to this. One good turn deserves another, so try this one!
https://archive.org/details/XMinusOne55122831ALogicNamedJoe
I saved both of those for later, too agitated and awake for quiet enjoyment at the moment. Flitting from the headlines here to the bowels of the interwebz in another tab (and I wonder why folks shake their head at me and say "bless his heart")
But, I went and found this, kinda off the vein but I remember watching a rerun as a kid and was fascinated and horrified at the same time. Can't remember if I had to sign up, but if so use a throw-away Email, they have a ton of old (and current) shows and movies.
http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi2883299097/?ref_=tt_ov_vi
[edit] and if anyone can find me "The Mothman Prophecies" on-line I'd love to know. There are just two scenes I'd like to see again, driving me crazy like a song stuck in your head at the most inconvenient time. Why I haven't paid for it (yet), when I only want to watch about 3 minutes.
can it be programmed to attack a certain human (oh wait, is he human?) in DC?
Well, it was supposed to by SkyNet that became aware, instead we get HairNet.