Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-04-29]: Can a robot give a TED talk? TED hopes so. [1] I just hope noone will ever clap on such a talk. How can "something" talk about something it does not understand? Notice that I do not ask "How can someone clap to someone talking about something he does not understand" - this happens all the time... In the era of deification of materialism and the denial of human, there was only one prerequisite for the introduction of a talking robot: a robot audience. And it seems we have it.
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