Just when you thought only the institute can make synths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_DPi0PmF0

Talk about Uncanny Valley. If that robot is working in customer support, then I would run away screaming. Personally, I prefer how Chobits did their robots. Looks human, but with mechanical cat ears and you know who is a robot and who is not instead of having a creepy face.

I'll be over here, stocking up on supplies for the future war...

The future of entertainment and training...

...if you know what I mean

With certain Chobits you just have to be careful of where you are when turning them on/off, due to the placement of the power button.

They're already here...

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi744337689?ref_=tt_ov_vi

Now all we need is some nutjobs screaming that that toaster is a person and we're well on our way to bat [censored] crazy town.

Apparently the more human like they make them, the more our brains are wired to not accept them. The more you know.

It's the uncanny valley effect. Because we can always sense when something is very familiar, but there's one thing that's off, it makes it unsettling to us. So even though we can say "oh, the back of her head is wires and clear plastic casing so she's a Robot", our brains are going "WHAT ARE YOU?!!!"

It's about time for me to assemble the Railroad gang, there's some synths needing liberation!

Still in the toy phase,doesn't seem to have Real AI yet.

The robot design from any movie I like best and think would actually be accepted by people is the NS4 robots from the movie I robot.. They look like what you expect a robot to look like. Their faces are friendly and well.. meek looking. You wouldn't want your "servant" robot looking all menacing or at all creepy.

http://i.imgur.com/Mr9dt.jpg

Good im already +2 to synth killing from my fallout experience slaughtering institute.

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what the actual (#*#

They have been saying for like 30 years that 20 years or so from now we can have more truly self aware Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).

It's what Stephen Hawking has been afraid of that we need to make sure we know what we are doing.

Computer computing power has been exploding in the last 5 years and in the 2020's will explode even more, with us being able to have software that will calculate cures for cancer faster than ever before.

The reason we don't need real life robots that can do anything a person can do without needing food, sleep, breaks or a salary is all those collage educated business owners will think wow I'll go out and replace all my human employees with robots and make tons of money. All the other business owners out there will be thinking the same thing and maybe 10 years later when they are shutting down there failing Businesses for good they will realize what went wrong. The working class who all lost there jobs to robot labor were no longer buying the products because they were all fired and starved to death when they ran out of money and well robots don't need to buy things. Those will be fun times. If you read the terminals that was starting to happen in the game.

This has and is still actually happening. Technology and efficiency is the biggest killer in the labor job market, and in the past decade or so, it is also starting to affect the skilled labor job market.

And not too get political or anything, but anytime you hear a politician make a point about the "biggest reason why Americans are losing jobs today and we need to create more blah blah blah..." they always blame it on a scapegoat. While there might be other factors, the biggest job killer is human innovation and technology...but no politician will ever raise the issue with that because you know...it'll cost them their jobs.

Howdy fella

You're right...100% right and remember that threat of the McDonalds "order machine" that can make your food and deliver it to the table has always sort of been a myth. However...I feel like one day, it'll come true and all pimple faced teens and 20 something COD players all over the world will be out of a job.

Technology won't be able to replace every job...but I can think of a dozen applications robotics could solve that we rely on real people to accomplish. Hell...even MY JOB I am currently at could be replaced by a robot.

*starts to nervously chew on fingernails* ......so, pulse mines?

I'm already stocking up on plenty of adhesive, aluminum, circuitry, nuclear material, and springs.

They are not "TERKING MEHHH JABBB!"

Seen the newer version of Atlas? It's funny how they stand by it being a Search and Rescue robot, we all know what it's true purpose is for.

Id already love to order from a robot instead of a human.

I think tech will replace every job, even research, development and invention could be accomplished by a AI with extensive information and learning ability.

I used to think this but if you look at unemployment data over time its around the same at equilibrium level even though machines have been taking peoples jobs for many years. It seems the market adapts and new types of jobs are created. I don't know how this is possible, but it has seemed to happen thus far. I'm not talking about individual examples, but overall number of jobs in the marketplace.

And how is that a problem?

This will make advanced countries into welfare nations. Leaving almost everyone unemployed with only jobs that require creativity or critical thinking still existing for humans. However, it wouldn't be as bad as you think. The robots will have to be given a reason to exist so the unemployed will still get their food and other goods. An automated society would mean that money no longer has any use. It would just mean that Corporations would control our lives.

It's sad that some people still dont understand the difference btw a cyborg and an android.

Why is that sad? Folks might not be interested in those things to learn the difference or really care. I understand you think that should be or must be common knowledge, but I have no idea the difference myself nor do I care because its not critical to know that.

If it ever became critical to know the difference, then I would learn and be on your side of the fence. I'm sure many others share this mentality and you have to remember not everyone can know everything and condemning them and/or proclaiming sadness for ignorance of a particular issue is rather useless and irrelevant, would you not agree?