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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT

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The Two Arguments for Humanoid Robots

AI doesn't think like people. We wind up in this fallacy where we're comparing these two and when we talk about what intelligence even is, we're often comparing to our own intelligence. All you need is something that's enough like a person to give off cues that someone relates to. And that doesn't have to look human or even act human. You can take a robot like R2D2 and it just beeps and boops and people love R2D1 more than C3PO. There's lots of ways to make robots even better than humans in some ways and make us relate more to them.

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