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The Korean Prof. Kim Jong-hwan invented the "soccer world cup" for robots in the middle of the previous decade. It was considered a crazy idea at the time, but quickly became a popular event among robotics engineers and scientists, who use the prestigious annual competition to test the progress of their developments in the field.
Now Kim, the director of the Research Center for Robot Intelligence in Seoul, is proposing an idea that looks and sounds even more delusional at this point: to give robots feelings, emotion, passion, desire, and self-judgment. They will be able to express joy, sadness, annoyance, hunger and fear. "Perhaps one day they will also learn to reproduce on their own," said the Korean scientist, who is considered a first-class authority on technology and the ethics of robotics.
So far, the robots have been built to walk and talk as well as run and play, but the robots coming out of Kim's lab in three months will be even closer to humans, after Kim and his team developed a series of "artificial chromosomes" that will give the robots all these emotions.
"It's like giving the sex drive to machines," explained Kim. "You have to think about the fact that in the future robots will be a species of artificial living beings. Instead of being made of proteins, they will be metallic." It is indeed software code, but it will define features that will be taken from the world of humans. "The robots in the future will have their own personality and emotions as well. It is clear that these creatures may pose a danger to humanity in the future, but if we install suitable chromosomes in them, i.e. software, we will reduce the danger."
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