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RE: ADSactly Tech News: The Robotic Takeover of Construction and Homebuilding
i wonder if anyone is bothered about aesthetics. human construction had flaws and features. robotic construction seems well robotic!
all angles and shining parts. there is no warmth or empathy in these kinds of constructions. I guess it is a fallout of such processes.
There is a sense of achievement for a human being that was very easy to come by earlier. robots will take that away from us and make it harder for us to appreciate things that are built.
Sociological problems will ensue and society will face a void. Skills will decline and so will commitments.
You can program machine intelligent machines to be as nuanced as you want. You want subtle flaws? Just ask the programmer to make it appear randomly throughout the build out and you have your human looking finished product. Old technology suffered from cookie cutter "woodeness". The possibilities as the technology matures are limitless in their abilities. As for the human disconnect I am reminded of my father (an engineer) lamenting that kids today relied on 3D calculators and could not operate a slide rule. I told him a thousand years earlier there were some Roman generals outside the Parthenon lamenting that Roman kids were using slide rules and did not know how to operate an abacus. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Cool use of historical examples to prove your point! Nice work!
i guess flaws can always be programmed but not born out of serendipity. maybe serendipity itself can be manufactured. in the end, we will be poorer for it