Mad
the grind
- Mar 21, 2018
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When I look at which people are online I usually see 10-20 "robots", what use do they serve?
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Fylobatica
Inactive
- Apr 1, 2018
- 365
Basically this https://metamend.com/archive/education/search-engine-bots/
AnnonyBox
Specialist
- Apr 11, 2018
- 332
They're referred to as "web crawlers" or "spiders" they index pages for Google, that's how Google displays search results, and caches pages.
El Topo
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- Apr 21, 2018
- 479
They're robots looking for information on how to end their robot lives.
Mari
Left forum, time's up
- May 10, 2018
- 169
CatLover
Member
- Jun 3, 2018
- 73
Looks like one was taking notes :-P
http://www.iflscience.com/technolog...de-in-fountain-because-the-world-is-terrible/
http://www.iflscience.com/technolog...de-in-fountain-because-the-world-is-terrible/
Soon4me
Enlightened
- Jun 15, 2018
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FTL.Wanderer
Enlightened
- May 31, 2018
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My big fear with robots is at the core of this question ("What are robots for?"). If AI-endowed robots ever evolve (or are programmed with) feelings, yet another being capable of suffering will have been created. And if it's one thing humans know how to do very, very well, besides reproduce, it's cause other sensitive beings to suffer.
I already feel bad in advance for the poor sentient robots being used as sex machines. Because humans are obsessed with sex and apparently can't evolve enough to get past this obsession.
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