MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders
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MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders
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Re: MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders
#2Less Wrong told me this day would come.
This is robot written propaganda! You've all heard of them writing articles. Now look at the consequences.
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#3I found it interesting. It would be nice to know more about the subjects in this test. It might be that science students would be more at ease with autonomously behaving robots than the avarage factory worker, so I hope they didn't just ask students from the department to volunteer.
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#4Robots also don't play favorites or office politics. If there is a more efficent/better way, it will do it. Even better when it is allowed to re-calculate with new parameters.
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#5We let robots give order all the time. The traffic light is one example.
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#6We let robots give order all the time. The traffic light is one example.
The research is related to artificial intelligence, not pure automation.
Re: MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders
#7We let robots give order all the time. The traffic light is one example.
It's a slippery slope
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#8Robots also don't play favorites or office politics. If there is a more efficent/better way, it will do it. Even better when it is allowed to re-calculate with new parameters.
That really depends on how the robot has been programmed. It's quite likely that robots in office-type settings will have political aspects to their decision making, at least to the extent that bits of corporate policy have been embedded.
Re: MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders
#9Robots also don't play favorites or office politics. If there is a more efficent/better way, it will do it. Even better when it is allowed to re-calculate with new parameters.
That really depends on how the robot has been programmed. It's quite likely that robots in office-type settings will have political aspects to their decision making, at least to the extent that bits of corporate policy have been embedded.
KPIs might be a parameter here
Re: MIT study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders
#10Interacting with robots is often easier and simpler than interacting with people. Now that AI is on the cusp of being able to replace not just manual workers, but knowledge workers of all types, even those service jobs that have always seemed safe in the face of automation are in danger of dying out. Especially in light of evidence like this that people actually prefer robots to humans in many of those situations.