Re:Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
by burnished on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:54PM
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Not the person you responded to, but I think I see where they are coming from and agree: we don't call them robots because we are used to them and have a specific name. I don't see how they aren't robots, unless we are defining robots as having a specific kind of manipulator.
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Aren’t we discussing robots vs machines?
I think their point was that if the dishwasher was made so that mechanical hands picked up a dish, washed it, rinsed it, dried it, then set it aside before picking up the next dish and doing the same, we would call that a robot.