Thursday, September 08, 2011

Waiting for AI...

I've liked robots since I was a little kid. Robots make the perfect friend; they're discrete, helpful, obedient, and quietly awesome. Robbie the Robot from the 50's movie classic "Forbidden Planet" was one of the first 'bots I had ever seen, and it was love at first sight! I even had some metal robot toys modeled after Robbie; if I still possessed them, they'd be worth a bundle.

My love for robots is why I can't wait for true artificial intelligence to get here; I want interactive robots around the way that people now have cell phones. You know how "The Jetsons" had "Rosie the Robot?" It would be something like that...

...but the future doesn't get here fast enough. We should be on Mars by now...we should have flying cars by now...so I guess my household robot's gonna have to wait, too...