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David Edmonds on Undercover Robot

Philosophy Bites

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Dotty, That's Her Name

The tone feels mostly human. She gets quite a lot of things wrong. Sometimes she doesn't understand human humor. Building in ambiguity into a robot is very difficult. Humans have their own forms of intuition for circumventing those rigid rules and finding ways around it. People who are trying to create the driveless car, for example, have got to work out when the drivers car should break a rule. Is it ok to break a rule to save a life? That's a very complex thing for a robot to work out. To that extent, itis quite realistic in the complexity of robot desin yes.

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