• Question: are any of uses robots

    Asked by oli to Aimee, Gemma, Hussain, Robert, Ross on 15 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Aimee Goodall

      Aimee Goodall answered on 15 Nov 2015:

      I don’t think that any of us are robots.
      There is a test called the “Turing test” in which a robot can’t be told apart from a human, looking at the way they think and act. I don’t think that any robots have yet passed the test!

    • Photo: Hussain Jaffery

      Hussain Jaffery answered on 15 Nov 2015:

      Maybe we are and maybe we aren’t! If you are including the robot vacuums in ‘us’, then yes, otherwise probably no. We haven’t made robots that are convincing enough to pass off as humans – yet – as Aimee suggested.

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