Thursday, July 31, 2008

Proud to be a human

I was reading a robot story by Asimov in which a sophisticated intelligent robot is trying to become more and more like humans. Why do we think that we have the best physical bodies? Why would a robot not have wheels instead of legs? Why would they speak in human language instead of binary numbers?

My roommate is right. The only way intelligent machines might be interested in us would be as pets or as lab rats. (see "The Matrix")

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