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If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

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You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?

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Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

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People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'

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Computers sort of came around through games and toys. And you know, the first computer most people had in the house may have been a computer to play 'Pong,' a little microprocessor embedded, and then other games that came after that.

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The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing.

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The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen.

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Anything that's living is a machine. I'm a machine; my children are machines. I can step back and see them as being a bag of skin full of biomolecules that are interacting according to some laws.

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If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

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I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Scientist

Born: December 30th, 1954

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