The argument for single-purpose robots

The argument by Lake et al. to create more human-like robots is, first, implausible and, second, undesirable. It seems implausible to me that a robot might have friends, fall in love, read Foucault, prefer Scotch to Bourbon, and so on. It seems undesirable because we already have 7 billion people on...

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Published in:The Behavioral and brain sciences 2017, Vol.40, p.e274-e274, Article e274
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