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[Positive Technology Journal] Developments in robotics and artificial intelligence raise a natural question: If computer processing eventually apes nature's neural networks, will cold silicon ever be truly able to think? And how will we judge whether it does?
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[Barista.media2.org] Barista » Blog Archive » crunchy crunchy energy pods: It is not socially acceptable for robots to scarf the flesh of humans even in a lower class than their owners, so Melhuish’s team has been experimenting with bulding a robot that lives on flies. That is fine, except the insects have to be attracted to the energetic little machine, so it is designed to smell like an old sewer.
[Cerezo.name] Sense of Wonder: Biomimetic robots sure are fun to build and a good investment to get future funding but we should not really need Nature’s pool of ideas: current animal’s shape is based on all previous evolutionary designs so, although adapted to their environments, they’re not the best possible design. Moreover, there are fundamental differences between animals and these robots:
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