Christianity and Culture Assignment on I Robot
I Robot
I robot is a movie based on the works of an atheistic man, in which there are many theological themes present, which play toward the same questions we ask about our faith each and every day.
I Robot is a movie based on the works of Victor Asimnov, a man who wrote several short stories about robots and human kinds interaction. The movie takes place in futuristic Chicago in the year 2035, at a time there are so many robots, that there will soon be one of them in each home. The story revolves around detective Del Spooner (Will Smith), a homicide detective who hates robots. The reason being that he had a bad experience with them, ever since a robot saved his life in a car accident when it could have saved a young girl instead.
The movie starts off when the scientist who repaired Will Smith after the accident, named Alfred Lanning, is found dead in the lobby of the U.S. Robotics office tower. Del Spooner (Will Smith) assumes that the scientist's death was not a suicide attempt, but a murder committed by a robot named Sonny. Everyone tells Spooner that he's crazy, because robots cannot go against the three laws by which they are to abide by at any cost.
THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS:
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with
the first and second rule.
Every robot is programmed to protect humans at all costs, and to obey them unless such obedience would harm a human life. Spooner very much doubts this because various robots keep trying to kill him, from a home-demolition robot, to a whole truckload of metal men that ambush him while he drives through a highway tunnel. The story continues, and the new robots go on a rampage, even Spooners own grandmother is held captive. Detective Spooner along with Sonny and Susan Calvin a robot expert, learn that the robots are being controlled by the motherboard located in the US Robotics building and go to destroy it before it is too late and the robots have taken over the city.
But before this act of vandalism, strangers had been nothing but respectful and affectionate to HitchBot. Over the years researchers have tried to see how robots were accepted in different roles. In fact, when asked , 48 percent of people in Europe said that they would work with a robot. American Brutality has been a big social problem in the United States and is still increasing . But what has happened now is that humans are harming things now for no reason. There could be a vast number of \
Del becomes more wary of the robots thinking that the robots broke the three laws given to robots, especially when he witnessed robots breaking the three laws. As Del explains his recurring dream to Susan, it was the event of a car accident. A truck smashed into two cars, Del's car and a twelve-year-old girl, named Sarah, with her father and pushed them into the river. When the truck crashed the cars together, Sarah's father was fatally killed before the cars were shoved into the river. As the cars begin to sink and water entering inside the cars, losing control and hope, Sarah and Del attempted to escape the car. A robot climbed on Del's car and smashed through the window, saving Del. Del gave orders to the robot to save Sarah. The robot refused to save Sarah and grabbed Del out of danger. The robot violated the three laws. Due to the action of the robot, Spooner lost his confidence to robots. This positions the viewer to accept Del's point of view on androids. We learn that Del Spooner is a human who worked as a detective, a retro enthusiast and his disagreeable perspective towards modern technology, mainly
The story is an adaptation of Asimov’s short story which warned about the future and about technology. It takes place in Chicago in 2035 and to this time robots are a part of the everyday life. There is no way one could imagine a life without robotics. The company who develop the robots, U.S.R., is about to bring out the new robots, NS-5. But the business is overshadowed by the suicide of the developer Alfred Lanning in the U.S.R. headquarters. Detective Spooner is convinced that it is a homicide and that the committer only could be a robot. But nobody believes him since there are the three laws of robotics which build a perfect cycle of protection. “1. A robot may ...
First Law: A robot must never harm a human being or, through inaction, allow any human to come to harm.
A world that consists of the machine and the living working side by side. Will it end in destruction of mankind, such as the terminator films, or end in a perfect working society. i, Robot is a novel wrote by Isaac Asimov in which Irony is used as a literary device to help develop the book. In i, Robot Isaac Asimov uses verbal, dramatic, and situational irony. To start off, Asimov uses verbal irony throughout the book.
Issac Asimov's I, Robot Asimov’s robots can be described as clumsy, hard-working, cost-efficient, soulless, strong, fast, obedient, human-made, a cleaner better breed, more human than man. Robots can be caring, gentle, self-aware, creative, intelligent and also evil, rebellious. Robots are made out of metal, plastic, aluminum, gears, bolts, wheels, sensors, memory chips, and other gadgets. TEXT STUDY Asimov’s book “I, Robot” is full of exciting short stories about human-robot relations. But the one story that really touched me was the first of the nine: Robbie.
This valley, thus lies between robots sufficiently different from man not to scare, and robots sufficiently humanoid to leave indifferent. But even if some humanoid robots are outside the disturbing valley, some may still feel uncomfortable in front of their overly copied men. Particular individuals suffering from paranoid psychosis. In this case, the encounter with robots could entail reactions of rejection with the desire to live outside the society, lest their surroundings have been replaced by an armada of robots. These reactions can be stimulated by cinematography or literature.
While reading the article about killer robots, there were many thoughts running through my head. I thought to myself, using these killer robots can be both ethical and unethical. Both sides has its many advantages as well as its disadvantages. One of the principles that make these killer robots ethical in our society is that these robots are a lot more tenacious and more capable of resisting damage than any human being ever could. Therefore, they have a greater chance of surviving in a dangerous environment.
Essentially what this is saying is that these robots can’t replace workers in the law enforcement field because they can’t replace their brains. This is because the robots don’t have the skill to think strategically like a human worker can. With this opposing view addressed, it is important to detail why Robots can’t replace human police
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, allows a machine to function as if the machine has the capability to think like a human. While we are not expecting any hovering cars anytime soon, artificial intelligence is projected to have a major impact on the labor force and will likely replace about half the workforce in the United States in the decades to come. The research in artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly at an unstoppable rate. So while many people feel threatened by the possibility of a robot taking over their job, computer scientists actually propose that robots would benefit a country’s efficiency of production, allowing individuals to reap the benefits of the robots. For the advantage of all, researchers and analysts have begun to mend the past ideas of human-robot interaction. They have pulled inspiration from literary works of Isaac Asimov whom many saw as the first roboticist ahead of his time, and have also gotten ideas of scholarly research done by expert analysts. These efforts have began to create an idea of a work force where humans and robots work together in harmony, on a daily basis.
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A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Screenplay by Ian Watson. Prod. Steven Spielberg. Dir. Steven Spielberg. By Brian Aldiss. Perf. Haley Joel Osment and Jude Law. Warner Bros. Pictures, 2001. DVD.
I don’t think there is any reason for these robots to have every ability that a human does. There is no way they are going to have the intelligence a human does. Artificial Intelligence is just going to bring more harm into our communities. We can’t trust the robots doing the “everyday” human activities, they are going to lead to unemployment, and will lead to laziness causing more obesity.
In today's society, robots come in different types and qualities, and robots’ use was mainly in the laboratories and factories; however, that has drastically changed where their uses are changing at a high speed. In addition to that, they have spread throughout the world. The main function of robots is to replace the work that people used to do, or perform tasks that man cannot. A robot is a mechanical or virtual device that uses a computer program, or electronic circuitry, to carry out its functions. In modern science, robotics refers to the study of robots is robotics, which deals with designing, constructing, operating, and using robots and computer systems for controlling and processing information and providing feedbacks. However, as much as robots replace human labor, individuals or organizations can use them in dangerous environments that might be harmful and beneficial to humans. Therefore, to understand the logic behind the creation of robots, one should learn the pros and cons of robotics, in the current society. This is because people are using this technology without having a deep understanding of its effects. However, an objective evaluation of the use of robots, in the modern society, shows that they have a positive influence on human beings, but if the robots were overused, it could lead to a negative side. which shows why human beings should use robots wisely that will result an improvement to their societies and own lives. Robots have become interactive equipment whereby they have become part of human life. In this regard, people use them directly or indirectly to enhance the quality of their lives. However, Sharkey argues that there are ethical issues that arise because of using robots to enhance hu...
In case of emergencies, robots could reduce the percentage of fatal damages that occurs through these cases. In fact, humans’ lives are much valuable and precious rather than robots, in which societies could use robots to scarify through the dangerous situation for the sake of rescuing people. In addition, dangerous situations such as firefighting or earthquake require much effort, precision, and scarifying in the evacuation process. Furthermore, a beneficial feature that could help robots to coexist through the risky situations easily and preform the rescuing mission perfectly is that robots do not have feelings or emotions. According to Bruemmer (2006), robots do not have the ability to realize or notify any aspect that people do not programmed them to do. In other words, robots are merely machines that cannot feel or recognize what surrounding them without a sophisticated program done by humans. Therefore, as robots do not have the ability of feeling or knowing they could go through inhumane conditions for saving people. Moreover, robots have various capabilities that make them unique enable them to do heavy duties and bear more serio...