Bicentennial Man: laws of robotics, biorobots, and natural language processing

Published: March 22, 2016, 8:45 a.m.

b'Asimov\\u2019s Three Laws \\n\\n

Enumerated in spectacular fashion in the film in order to get it out of the way and never speak of it again.

\\n\\n Natural Language Processing \\n\\n

It\\u2019s really hard! Errors in humor and social expectations. Infinite conversational loops.

\\n\\n Robot Personification \\n\\n

A nurturing environment maybe contributed to Robo Williams\\u2019 sentience. Art as awakening. Acting human. Emergence.

\\n\\n Robot Slave Class \\n\\n

Why don\\u2019t we see them?

\\n\\n Uncanney Valley \\n\\n

Turing tests. Robots, androids, biorobots. Robo Williams\\u2019 synthetic organs.

\\n\\n What is Life? \\n\\n

Actually kind of hard to define.

\\n\\n Immortality \\n\\n

\\u201cDeath is an engineering problem.\\u201d

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