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Five Bits of Robot News, Week of Oct 16
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Five Bits of Robot News
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After a chatbot encouraged a suicide, “AI playtime is over."
Time to set aside naive acceptance — and naive criticism
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How (Not If or When) to Become a Human-Robot 'Centaur'
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Is It Ever OK to Bash a Robot?
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Robot Eldercare Is Not Going According to Plan
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After a chatbot encouraged a suicide, “AI playtime is over."
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Robot Eldercare Is Not Going According to Plan
James Wright's "Robots Won't Save Japan" Explains Why
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How (Not If or When) to Become a Human-Robot 'Centaur'
What ChatGPT and other language tools have taught me about melding with AI
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Does It Matter if a Robot is Sentient?
What Matters More is How and When You Act Like It Is
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The Lem Objection
Are Human-Like Robots Feasible? Maybe. Are They Worth the Trouble? Maybe Not.
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More on robot accidents
A few days after I wrote my last post about robot "accidents," coincidentally the good people at Black in Robotics retweeted several pics of delivery…
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'Accident' Isn't Always the Right Word for Robot Screwups
In a lot of incidents, humans and machines are operating normally
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The Unbearable Indifference of Others
People hate the feeling that others don't care about them. Even if those 'others' are machines
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