Special Reports & Tweets - 20140218_SpecialReport-2_Alex
Aired: 2014-02-18
Duration: 02:58


=== Robots vs. Humans? (02:26) ===

[00:00:00]  Would you be okay with robot cops?
[00:00:04]  Yes.
[00:00:05]  No.
[00:00:07]  I like having someone actually there in person and that I can relate to and just interact with.
[00:00:12]  I think it's kind of frightening and I think a lot of times human judgment saves lives and is like really important.
[00:00:17]  I assume it can be good that you will treat everybody more equal.
[00:00:22]  Robocops?
[00:00:23]  The real ones or the fake ones?
[00:00:24]  Real ones.
[00:00:26]  Uh, not too sure about that.
[00:00:27]  I'm gonna be scared for my life.
[00:00:28]  What you mean?
[00:00:30]  Until they make machines that can think better than human beings, and even human beings make errors all the time.
[00:00:35]  I mean, look at all the lawsuits for, you know, wrongful deaths.
[00:00:38]  You lose, I guess, that sensitivity that your average person might have.
[00:00:43]  A lot of things are black and white, and sometimes, you know, there's circumstances which I think there should be a little more slack with.
[00:00:49]  Would you be like, oh, there's that robot, I hope he doesn't shoot me.
[00:00:52]  I wouldn't give him a reason to shoot me, so.
[00:00:54]  I wouldn't be scared, per se.
[00:00:56]  Did you know that in some places it's against the law to grow a garden?
[00:01:00]  Is it really?
[00:01:01]  No, I didn't know that.
[00:01:02]  Or they can ticket you for washing your car in your driveway.
[00:01:05]  I did not know that.
[00:01:08]  You're breaking the law.
[00:01:09]  I mean... You have 30 seconds to comply.
[00:01:12]  And then they put their twin rotary machine guns on you.
[00:01:18]  This is a DARPA robot pet man.
[00:01:21]  This is what they're working on.
[00:01:22]  Look at that guy.
[00:01:23]  Yeah.
[00:01:25]  Isn't that scary?
[00:01:26]  They're turning these into soldiers.
[00:01:28]  Why do they need unmanned drones that can run at things?
[00:01:32]  I don't understand the need for it.
[00:01:34]  For someone to have that much power, you kind of need someone to be a... have more intelligence than some robot.
[00:01:42]  Would you ever date a robot?
[00:01:44]  No.
[00:01:46]  I don't think you can replace the human heart, the human emotions.
[00:01:50]  They're all just super computers anyway.
[00:01:52]  I guess, in a way.
[00:01:53]  I mean, it seems like it's a pretty easy way to just sort of say, this is exactly what I like, don't like, and what I want, and they could just ship it right to your door.
[00:02:01]  Amazon could deliver it with a drone.
[00:02:03]  I don't know.
[00:02:04]  I guess they're old-fashioned, but people should, you know, get a life, not really date robots.
[00:02:10]  All of a sudden, the computer goes down, and he's got to go to the hospital.

=== Students With Chip-Enhanced Test Info (00:46) ===

[00:02:14]  He ends up being embarrassed and showing up at the emergency room with a robot attached to him.
[00:02:21]  Upload your brain to some sort of an artificial reality and live forever?
[00:02:25]  Doesn't that sound trendy?
[00:02:27]  That's a cool idea.
[00:02:30]  Lifespan extension.
[00:02:32]  So you would be into uploading your brain to artificial reality?
[00:02:38]  Not per se, but an artificial body maybe.
[00:02:41]  What would you do with your students if they were basically able to upload all of their test information to their computer chips, basically like Google in their brain?
[00:02:49]  I'd be scared.
[00:02:51]  Because who knows what else is in there?
[00:02:53]  No, I am not into any sort of virtual reality world.
[00:02:55]  I would never want my brain uplinked into anything permanently.