Did I do good?
I think Blinky™ pretty much speaks for himself.
(The 1080p HD version is 435Mb, but worth downloading.)
March 21, 2011
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Ok, now I don't want a domestic robot any more...
Classic lines, though! (don't worry, no spoilers)
Comment by Bern — March 21, 2011 @ 10:16 pm
Good to see you posting more frequently again, Dan.
Such a well-executed short, though a bit predictable. I guess this is what happens when the Three Laws aren't correctly implemented and/or omitted...
Comment by Mohonri — March 21, 2011 @ 10:18 pm
Dammit almost watched that with my 4 yr old
Comment by Ziggyinc — March 22, 2011 @ 5:20 am
The video loads slow, but it's worth. you did not just good! You did great!
Comment by Donald — March 23, 2011 @ 1:34 am
Aww, I couldn t play that. I was re/mis directed to w3//Safari.etc.
And there was I , tinkin Opera was HTML5 complian.
Comment by Jabberwoch — March 26, 2011 @ 11:27 am
Hmm, creepy stuff. What's impressive is how quickly we empathise with Blinky when faced with the nastiness of the kid's character. Not even for one second do we consider that we are rooting for a machine against a human.
I think a lot of this is due to robots being part of pop culture for a long time, at least since 2001 - A Space Odyssey was filmed back in the 60s. We are so used to seeing believable human characteristics from robots or computers that we don't even give it a second thought when considering who to support in a conflict scenario in a film.
What I wonder is whether this would be mirrored in reality. If we ever develop truly human AI, would we be happy to give these machines all sympathy we would give a human if they were being mistreated? Or, would we easily come to hate machines if they behaved like a detestable human?
I think we will be considering this for real before I'm dead. Long before I'm dead.
Comment by Taniwha69 — March 31, 2011 @ 1:11 pm
I realize I'm behind the times, here, in just seeing this. And now it seems I've missed out on the let's-say-fun!
Computer says:
(Same problem if I follow the vimeo link below the video.)
Comment by FeRD — June 27, 2011 @ 7:32 pm