I talk about robots quite a bit because it’s a huge technological trend. Some love it, but I’m weary of it at best. Two stories confirm it. So here’s a robot report: It’s hardly anything nice.
A robot conducted a classical music concert in Pisa, Italy. But it wasn’t just any concert; it was the?Lucca Philharmonic orchestra. This is one of the most prestigious orchestras of all time. We can thank Swiss tech firm ABB. In fact, they called the concert International Festival of Robotics. They also named the robot YiMi. Keep in mind YiMi lead the orchestra; a robot telling humans how to play their music! Now ABB insists this won’t replace human orchestras…not yet. But we’ll see.
However, this next robot report is far more disturbing. In Japan, the latest craze is robots that will marry and have sex with lonely guys. But wait…it gets worse. Because apparently, these robots can be trained to kill you. Hackers and crooks can exploit robots’ deficiencies. Then, these hackers can control all the robots’ movements. Also, they can do whatever these crooks tell them to, whether it be theft, rape, murder, dismemberment. You think I’m reading from a sci-fi movie script?
This robot report keeps tech leaders and cyber security experts up at night. Even Elon Musk warns of how dangerous IT technology and robots can be. Cyber security leader Dr. Nick Patterson believes these robots can go I, Robot on us at any moment. I’m just a blogger out a computer service shop in Boston. I’m not much of anybody, so go ahead and laugh at me and call me crazy. But when you have a billionaire tech leader and genius ?like Elon Musk sounding the alarm, maybe we should listen. When top cyber security experts say this, maybe we should listen. So you think the robot concert is heart warming? Let’s see how heart warming it is when thousands of musicians are out of jobs, and the arts are totally destroyed. Are we heading for the end of humanity, or am I just paranoid?