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#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex on Social Humanoid Robot
The speaker discusses the importance of execution over ideas when starting a company, using social robotics as an example. They highlight the potential for a robotics company to place social robots in billions of homes as companions. The conversation also touches upon Elon Musk's plan for a humanoid robot for automating tasks in factories, utilizing the technology and data from Tesla's autopilot system. However, there is a lack of consideration for the social aspect in these robots. The speaker emphasizes the value of imperfections in relationships and how being flawed and unpredictable is essential for human interactions, a quality that is challenging to engineer in physical robotic spaces.
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