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by VLM 2797 days ago
My 14 year old roomba has algorithms that are dumber than all livestock I can think of; my pet tropical fish exhibit better path finding abilities when I feed them. When the roomba unintelligently, yet effectively, cleans my room I do not feel any danger of human anthropomorphism.

Much like airplanes are not imitations of birds, its unlikely household robots will be mistaken for human slaves. A lot of time was wasted in the development years of heavier than air flight by trying to poorly imitate birds using machines.