Re: The Turing test tells us nothing really.

Here is an example, of a toy made out of nerf material.
The Nerf Howler.
http://www.firebox.com/?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=796

It is a semi-rigid foam product.

If you were to throw this at close range and hit someone in the head,
at 60 miles per hour, it would not do any serious damage.

If it did manage to do damage, the operator would be at fault, not the
toy, any more than a hockey stick is responsible for injury.

Lets go further, and say well what about if your robot - with its CD
recorded movement capabilities, was operating and waving its nerf arms,
knocks over a person, catches him off guard, spills his hot drink on
him or etc. It is moving by itself, is it then responsible for damages?
Would you get a class action law suit?

Not if you had warnings about standing within x amount of feet while it
was in automatic mode.

When a person, uses a Braun hand blender, that is a dangerous weapon,
and it is whiring away by itself, but really you are expected to use it
with caution, like power tools.

A remote controlled airplane, or any other moving device has hazards
and you have to accept those hazards when you purchase something.

But if your robot, was made of nerf material, you could fall on it, or
it could fall on you, and even someone at the other end controlling it,
could attack you, and you would be unharmed.

Now it would still be able to pick things up, like a chess piece, but
if it made you coffee, lets say, you donned your siut, and recorded the
movements for making coffee with it in the morning, then played that
back every morning and it made you coffee.
Due to the fact that it is so lightweight, it would need to hold the
cup close to its body, while shuffling its feet across the floor, or
else the weight, of the coffee cup, would topple it.

It has to be that light, for safety reasons in the home.

Later models with better safety and for more advanced use can be
developed but for the mass initial market, safety is very important.

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