May 12, 2024

Where is the origin of the word "robot"?

I am worried that people will become machines, and machines will have human minds.

- Karel Chapeck

Today, the term "robot" is no stranger to us and is gradually becoming a high-frequency word. Sweeping robots, pet doll robots, bionic robots...and military robots, mine-sweeping robots, and even “killing robots”...both robotic arms on the factory line, drones on the battlefield, cartoons The "Doraemon" robot cat, or the mechanical warrior in the movie, or the virtual question and answer software on the mobile phone, seems to be called "robot." But what are these different shapes and functions, but what is the "thing" called "robot"?

The Chinese word "robot" allows us to unconsciously draw a picture of it: a human figure assembled by machinery. But in fact, the term "Robot" in foreign languages ​​does not contain mechanical meaning. Because the word is "invented", the meaning is closer to "artificial workers."

The word Robot first appeared in the three-screen sci-fi drama "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech writer Karel Capek in the early 20th century. The content of the repertoire is very simple, but it involves a lot of thought-provoking reflections.

The story takes place in the future. Scientist Russell is obsessed with living imitation and creation, and is fascinated to turn himself into a Creator and replace God. He believes that in addition to mating, he will be able to find a simpler, faster, and more easily created way of creation. He studies experiments every day and wants to imitate everything in the human body.

But the scorpion Rossim and the factory-successful bosses have no faith in science. They only want benefits and benefits. Therefore, based on the research of Old Russell, they streamlined "people." Feelings, thoughts, art, beauty... those parts that are “useless” but “very expensive” need to be deleted. They don't want to make people, they want to make "labor workers", and these "labor workers" are called "Robots" - the word is born out of Czech Robota and Polish Robotnik, the former translated as forced labor, the latter translated For the workers. They are low in cost, perfect in intelligence, and have no difference in appearance from human beings. The only difference is that there is no soul.

The factory's assembly line, robots are also robots, raw material agitation, skin production, visceral weaving, bone production... The robots produced are sold throughout the country in ten years, and most of the work is contracted. Correspondingly, human beings are doing nothing, falling into decline, and even reproductive functions are gradually lost. The robot gradually felt the incompetence of human beings, began to launch war rebellion and completely slaughtered the former "creator." The only remaining human witnesses, perhaps the "Adam" and "Eve" in the robotics world, to open a new era that we will not know.

Where do the three characters of "robot" originate? Why?

The story of this type of robot against the Lord is not new now. But in 1920, when the script was completed, there was no Asimov's "Three Laws of Robots" and no "Terminator" or "Transformers." At that time, people were still confused or broken because of the world war. Chapec had already seen it for centuries. His vision and reflection on robots is still the basic framework of robotic stories.

In fact, human enthusiasm for robots has not appeared in recent centuries. In "Lie Zi Tang Wen", such a story is recorded: in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the craftsman sergeant produced a kind of song and dance doll, singing and chorus, dancing and stepping on the sound, sprinting slowly, pitching freely, and even flirting . The dolls were dismantled and the interior was also complete. Although they were all fakes, they were all prepared. This makes Zhou Muwang sigh: "The skill of man is the same as that of the creator." This is probably the earliest robot of mankind, which is very similar to Chapak's "universal robot".

The difference is that the story of Yanshi is to praise the craftsmanship of the craftsman, and is the pleasure of human beings at that time. Three thousand years later, the idea of ​​imagining the creator and even replacing it has intensified. Our "needs" for robots are not just what Aristotle expects: to liberate people from the shackles of labor, so that human beings can live for the pursuit of their own beauty. We want to rely on robots to meet the "needs" of humanity at all stages.

According to Maslow's theory of demand, human beings not only need food and clothing, but also security needs, social needs, respect for needs, and ultimately self-fulfillment needs. Therefore, robot research has spread all over the field. In order to protect the safety of soldiers, the future battlefield is likely to be “unmanned”, and “battlefield robots” can be used to help soldiers carry out “3D” tasks – “Dull” (boring). Dirty (dirty), "Dangerous" (dangerous). In order to meet the social needs of human beings, "chat robots" and "question-answer robots" have attracted many users in the case that smart technology is not yet mature. In order to achieve the demand of respect, "labor robots" and "accompaniment robots" can create a sense of accomplishment or a sense of concern. And when all of this can be achieved, self-fulfilling needs will motivate humans to become creators.

The idea that humans are eager to become creators and replace creators is likely to be mapped to future robots. This kind of law has caused many thinkers to worry about it. Not only that, but in the robot development process, not everyone is united. People are likely to modify the agreed manufacturing requirements in order to satisfy their own "realization." In "Universal Robots", there has been such a scenario. After considering the possible consequences, the developer still changed the parameters and experimented. "Nothing else, just for the sense of accomplishment."

The weakness of human nature, combined with the uncontrollable nature of technology, allows the robot to develop on the road, and the voice of opposition is endless. Chapeck appeared to be very pessimistic about the voice of opposition. He said in the drama of the scientist: "No one has the courage to stop the production of robots, people will kill him. After all, robots can help you get the job done more efficiently. And this almost means the extinction of mankind."

However, at least for now, humans still have things that machines are irreplaceable to accomplish. In Chapeck's time, there was a very interesting one: cooking. "They don't have a taste, they can't do it." Chapeck took it with him, but it made people shine. Nowadays, there is already a “cooking robot”, but the meal that can not be done by measurement and by skill and skill should be the one that is replaced at the latest.

There is also thought and art. Those areas that require creativity and breaking rules, those that are considered "useless" but "expensive", make up a large part of the soul. So is the meaning of life in the seemingly meaningless things? Probably yes, just like the introduction and thinking of the whole story, the final result is not important, and consideration and reflection are precisely the traces of human existence. .

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