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The Skeptics Guide #847 - Oct 2 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Privacy Issues Are Huge

The Amazon Echo is a computer that you can interact with, that can move around your house. It's not really physically doing much in what i mean, it doesn't have arms. Dosn't have armsit's a little hopper. You can eat a move stuff, but is you could put stuff in it, ye rightly. Can of soda in there and send it over across a it can't to the refrigerator, take a camo soda and then bring it to you. Thogh ay, thatothe thing. But i think this is one nice, tiny, little incremental advance. And they're clearly working out some of the basic technology that will probably inform later domestic robots like

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