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by majewsky 3410 days ago
The definition of "robot" is the hard part here. Just this week I saw a newspaper article arguing that we could tackle automation by giving one of the robots in an automated factory to each of the displaced workers, so that they would each own a robot and earn the robot's income. I just sat there and chuckled because obviously the author thinks of robots stricly in terms of movie characters like C3PO.

Is Siri a robot? Or is Siri thousands of robots working in concert to create the illusion of a single agent?