Intelligent YouTube comment on robotics?!

[jackal]

I was watching the classic (and recently in-the-news, thanks to Sen. Tom Coburn v. NSF) video of the towel-folding robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo) and stumbled across this comment by user nyavramov:

Progression of people's mentality on robotics:

1. Okay, it can fold a towel but it's slow.

2. Okay, it can fold a towel fast, but it can't fold other cloths.

3. Okay, it can fold clothes, but it can't do dishes or and drive to the grocery store.

4. Okay, it can get groceries and dishes, but it can't think creatively.

6. Okay, it can think creatively, but it isn't conscious.

7. Okay, it's conscious....

...Well, fuck.

Is Randall commenting on YouTube videos under a nom de plume now?! :p

(I could have sworn this was ripped off of an existing xkcd comic, but I Googled every permutation of keywords in the comment and found no link. Is it possible I found the world's first intelligent YouTube commenter?!)

[123]

That's a first...
Pretty funny too

[M1k3_Nix]

There's intelligent life on Youtube :O
I was certain it would be found on Mars, or any othe planet, before intelligent life was discovered on Youtube
Wow

[Microscopic cog]

I once came across a Streetlight Manifesto video, and every comment on the first two pages had proper capitalization and punctuation.

[the_bandersnatch]

I once came across a Streetlight Manifesto video, and every comment on the first two pages had proper capitalization and punctuation.

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Steve the Pocket]

There's intelligent life on Youtube :O
I was certain it would be found on Mars, or any othe planet, before intelligent life was discovered on Youtube
Wow

Maybe it was a robot that can think creatively.

[Adacore]

Maybe it was a robot that can think creatively.

I hope it isn't conscious

[thorgold]

Hm, Youtube comments with taste, grammar, and legitimate wit?

Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.

XKCD #810

[Korrente]

I once came across a Streetlight Manifesto video, and every comment on the first two pages had proper capitalization and punctuation.

I think that says more about the benefits of Streetlight than YouTube intelligence.

[jackal]

My only thought is, "What a waste of intelligence."

He should have posted that comment somewhere where it would be widely appreciated. YouTube isn't that place.

Hopefully, I've helped him right that wrong by posting it here.

[fuzzycuzzy]

Hm, Youtube comments with taste, grammar, and legitimate wit?

Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.

XKCD #810

dang it, I thought of that one-liner first! I know what to do http://xkcd.com/827/

[nyavramov]

Just wanted to drop by and say thanks for the compliments.
Proof that it's me: i imgur dot com WbLVngq.png

I'm a little late, though, considering I posted that comment 2 years ago.

The near future of robotics will completely change the face of civilization. Looking at Petman, IBM Watson (which is on the verge of passing a US board medical exam), and their ilk has me convinced that we're about to encounter an unprecedented explosion of machine intelligence.

Cheers.