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Whitney Cummings: Comedy, Robotics, Neurology, and Love

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Do Robots Look Like Bearclaw?

"I'm obsessed with what makes us human and our human nature in the nasty side of human nature tends to be where I've, you know, ended up exploring over and over again," he says. "So it's my job to get the biggest reaction from a group of strangers... And I just had this instinct just when I started building her and people go, Oh, and scream and people scream." The idea that we've essentially evolved to be repelled by anything that looks human, but is off a little bit has fascinated him for years.

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