Bicentennial Man : Episode 30
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Bicentennial Man
What: Robin Williams-bot makes the journey from man to machine.
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Starring: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt
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Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov
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Robin Williams – In Motion from Every Frame a Painting
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Show Notes
Asimov’s Three Laws
Enumerated in spectacular fashion in the film in order to get it out of the way and never speak of it again.
Natural Language Processing
It’s really hard! Errors in humor and social expectations. Infinite conversational loops.
Robot Personification
A nurturing environment maybe contributed to Robo Williams’ sentience. Art as awakening. Acting human. Emergence.
Robot Slave Class
Why don’t we see them?
Uncanney Valley
Turing tests. Robots, androids, biorobots. Robo Williams’ synthetic organs.
What is Life?
Actually kind of hard to define.
Immortality
“Death is an engineering problem.”
Goodbyes
Sir: Goodnight
Andrew: Goodnight
Sir: Goodnight
Andrew: Goodnight and his
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