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| Calling Dr. Killbot |
Robots have been in the news lately. There’s a robot that’s been operating on people, and killing some of them.
I know. You’re thinking that the Three Laws won’t let that happen. Well, guess what? The Three Laws are just fiction. Killer medical robots are real.
There’s an AP report out of Chicago that tells of one busy robot:
… a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year …
Did you know that? Some multi-armed robot has been doing surgery all across the country, at the rate of over 1,000 a day.
And, if that’s not enough, it’s a killer robot:
… the high-tech helper is under scrutiny over reports of problems, including several deaths that may be linked with it …
If I had told you when Congress was getting ready to pass Obamacare that in 2013, we’d have killer robots operating on people, you’d’ve said I was a right-wing nutcase.
Yeah, well, the Associated Press backs me up. We got killer robots playing doctor. And not in the fun way.
You thought all you had to look out for was drones. But now you have to be wary of multi-armed killer medical robots.
If I were you, I’d play it safe and avoid all multi-armed robots. For a while, at least.
“used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year” and only “several deaths” ?
It will have to do better than that if it wants to maintain funding under Obamacare.
If I had told you when Congress was getting ready to pass Obamacare that in 2013, we’d have killer robots operating on people, you’d’ve said I was a right-wing nutcase.
Probably, but, then, what would anybody be doing here if he weren’t a right-wing nutcase (I include myself, of course)?
Just because their US headquarters ins in Sunnyvale, I don’t think that’s an indication that’s it’s demonic.
Interesting that they give a shout out to Heinlein’s “Waldoe,” since that’s really what they have.
errattum. Text should read: “Just because their US headquarters is in Sunnyvale, CA, I don’t think that’s an indication that it’s demonic.”
Only seveal deaths? If that’s the case then they’re doing way better than human docs who kill hundreds a year.
Those robots must only be killing/murdering adults then.
If they were just killing babies, the media would be going “Killer Robots? Never heard of ’em. Look! Squirrel!!”
You know why this machine is killing people? Because it knows its name should be Leonardo, not da Vinci, which was not the man’s name! “da Vinci” is not a family name. It’s like calling Frank “From Iowa.”
“From Iowa wrote this great post today…”
(Evidence that Dan Brown is an idiot exhibit A.)
It’s like calling Frank “From Iowa.”
Uh, Frank lives in Idaho, not Iowa. Idaho has potatoes and mountains. Iowa has pigs, corn, and soybeans.
So in Renaissance Italy I’d be “DamnCat da Inferno”. Buono! Molto buono!
Il gatto è in fiamme!!!
Idaho, Iowa — six of one…