![]() ![]() The robot is called Adam twenty-five of these robots have been created, twelve Adams and thirteen Eves, on the market for a mere £86,000 each. ![]() I don’t think it’s that easy, though in fairness these feats only resemble the common literary trick where our hero’s facility with languages or amazingly retentive memory somehow makes him able to perform brilliantly at tasks that actually require things like insight and originality. No real explanation for these superpowers is given it’s kind of assumed that direct access to huge volumes of information together with a computational brain just naturally make you able to do these things. Unfortunately I don’t think he’s a terrifically interesting robot he’s not very different to a naïve human in most respects, except for certain unlikely gifts an ability to discuss literature impressively and an ability to play the stock market with steady success. Ian McEwan’s latest book Machines Like Me has a humanoid robot as a central character. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |