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- Mon. Apr 22nd, 6pm - 7pm:
Eve Herold, author, "Robots and the People Who Love Them"
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February 18, 2019: Maxim Pozdorovkin, director, "The Truth About Killer Robots"
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This week: Maxim Pozdorovkin, director of the documentary "The Truth About Killer Robots"
Links to Maxim:
• On Twitter: @maximpoz
• Third Party Films
• HBO Documentaries: The Truth About Killer Robots. See also the companion interview: "The obvious angle is that robots are adopting more human-like qualities, but the not-so-obvious call-out the film makes is that humans are asked to adopt more robot-like qualities in exchange."
• Interview with Maxim at Museum of the Moving Image (Dec 2018): "I tried to correct certain blind spots that exist in our talking about robots, automation, and artificial intelligence. Most discussions are about what robots can do for you rather than what robots do to you."
• The year's most terrifying documentary, writes The Guardian in this review (Nov 26, 2018)
• Maxim in conversation with Judith Shulevitz on "Living with Robots" (Jan 30, 2019)
Robots in the news
• Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two (NYT, Feb 4): "A small group of well-educated professionals enjoys rising wages, while most workers toil in low-wage jobs with few chances to advance." See also The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite (mentioned on Techtonic recently) - by Kevin Roose at the NYT, Jan 29.
• Above: as reported by this Seattle Times article (Sept 2018), "Amazon has patented a system that would put workers in a cage, on top of a robot." Amazon VP Dave Clark posted in response, "Sometimes even bad ideas get submitted for patents. This was never used and we have no plans for usage." (Image above from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.)
• Above: Amazon reveals Scout: The six-wheeled delivery robot (fluff piece from The Independent)
• No, The Last Words Of Nasa's Opportunity Rover Weren't 'My Battery Is Low And It's Getting Dark' (Newsweek, today, Feb 18)... nonetheless, the eulogies were heartfelt...
Above by Sarafina Nance (Feb 13, 2019)
......and then this:
Other tech news
• Amazon's HQ2 in Queens is cancelled, which is a victory against "gangster-ification" of American business...
• ...echoing the UK Parliament calling Facebook a "digital gangster" and holding Zuck in "contempt."
• The FTC is looking into Facebook's violation of the consent decree, and math says it's a $3.5 trillion violation.
• Finally, just a reminder that Apple made $9 billion last year by pushing Google's surveillance onto Apple users.
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......p.s. thanks to Joe McGasko for the pointer to our outtro song tonight! Catch it on his January 29 episode of Surface Noise.
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| Maxim Pozdorovkin, director of the documentary "The Truth About Killer Robots," talks about robots that have been involved in human fatalities. | ||||||||||
| Tomas Dvorak |
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Machinarium Soundtrack | No label |
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| Interview with Maxim Pozdorovkin |
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| Your calls and comments 201-536-9368 |
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| Sheldon Allman |
Univac and the Humanoid
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Folks Songs for the 21st Century | HiFi Records |
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Sara Connor: What did he just say?
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JakeGould:
• Amazon was originally looking for ONE second headquarters known as HQ2. Then suddenly it became TWO second headquarters without much explanation.
• Now it is back to ONE; the one Virginia.
• Also, Amazon killed the NYC deal after meeting with labor union officials on February 13th.
Amazon is vocally anti-union and if they conceded to NYC unions, then all Amazon locations would have to be unionized. And Amazon doesn’t want that to happen.
Amazon will now just boost the staffing at existing NJ and NYC facilities.
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@Fredericks: No, and my mother is dead so please have a good reason for prying like this.
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What happens to the newly unburdened masses?
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JakeGould:
1. "Serve the public trust"
2. "Protect the innocent"
3. "Uphold the law"
4: "Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of OCP results in shutdown"
And here some of the extra prime directives that were programmed into RoboCop after it visited a Park Slope parenting group meeting:
238. "Avoid destructive behavior"
239. "Be accessible"
240. "Participate in group activities"
241. "Avoid interpersonal conflicts"
242. "Avoid premature value judgements"
243. "Pool opinions before expressing yourself"
244. "Discourage feelings of negativity and hostility"
245. "If you haven't got anything nice to say don't talk"
246. "Don't rush traffic lights"
247. "Don't run through puddles and splash pedestrians or other cars"
248. "Don't say that you are always prompt when you are not"
249. "Don't be over-sensitive to the hostility and negativity of others"
250. "Don't walk across a ball room floor swinging your arms"
robocop.fandom.com...
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JakeGould:
If most people could pay 1/2 their rent and solid healthcare that is government-based—instead of employer—based—we would really be living in the future.
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