Re: The Turing test tells us nothing really.

And shops would pop up everywhere, and computer shops, would have their
robot departments, and robot service departments, because people would
maybe not feel comfortable, taking apart their companion themselves.
They would prefer to just pick it up like they don't like to work on
their car, even if they know how.

It is a piece of cake I tell you. We are capable with today's
technology of doing this if people realized that there is a huge market
for it.
If you look honestly, at society, and people, and how they form
relationships, and what they want out of relationships, well you only
need look at the number of dogs and cats in society, to see, that
people want companions.

You push your robot around in a wheel chair, until you get to its
location, and then maybe it can even stand and have a small range of
movement. As the technology progressed, they would learn how to walk.
After enough development dollars were sunk into the industry.

And you provide the long john interface equipment for manipulating the
thing, and people get together in games room on the net, and you
control a person's robot for them at their end, as if it were you there
with them in their playroom, with your interface, and they control your
robot for you bridging the gap of space and time using the light speed
fiber optics of the net, and computer technology.

To join the club, the games room, you would probably have to provide
identification.
I mean you don't want your robot to strangle you playing cards and even
though you have built in failsafe mechanisms, you want to be able to
manage the unruly ones and block their participation so as to make it
more enjoyable.
And know this, people will die.
Yes they will. Almost immediately, you will hear about a child, that
was strangled to death, by an unruly operator, because the entire
system will have its detractors, and just like chat rooms are forever
reminded about the girl, who got too close to the guy, met him and he
strangeld her at her doorstep of her home.
The news loves to terrorize the populace with stories like that so
assume it will happen.

But should that put a damper on the entire industry? No, the operators
are human, humans are humans, and it is not the robot, who committed
the crime, humans commit crimes, so you need to be careful, at all
times people are careful anyways, who they associate with.
And the operators would be monitored by managers and cameras would be
on them at all times and etc.
The problem with chat rooms, is you really don't know who is at the
other end.
Unless you have a web cam I suppose. And maybe the operator service,
will have a web cam so you can go to their web site, and see them at
work, if it put people's minds at ease.

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