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If Shakespeare is right about imagination, robot Sophia will certainly break some hearts

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All “she” (= her programmer) wants is more brainpower:

A critical fact about artificially intelligent and sentient robots—if they could exist—University of Glasgow philosopher emeritus Hugh McLachlan notes is that, unlike life forms, they could be turned on and off.

We can imagine robots that can think and feel” at Mind Matters News

And they could be turned on and off. What are the implications of that?

See also: AI Delusions: A statistics expert sets us straight We learn why Watson’s programmers did not want certain Jeopardy questions asked If you ask about anything that’s a puzzle, joke, riddle, or sarcasm that you can’t look up in Wikipedia, computers are helpless.