Just when you think that things cannot get any weirder

" (Melania) Trump continued: “Since our environment is designed for people, humanoid systems are uniquely suited to navigate and operate within our world. They fit well.”

She encouraged her guests to imagine a “humanoid educator named Plato” who could teach classical studies and said the use of robots would give children more time to be with friends, play sports and develop extracurricular interests. “A more complete person,” she said."

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My girlfriend from Iran says the robot got the Arabic/ Farsi greeting wrong. Lulz

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Perfect couple indeed

It said something vaguely in Portuguese, with an also vaguely Brazilian accent, lol

I am not worried that much about robot fever. These machines are not able to generate bio morphogenic field as described by R. Sheldrake and others.
Its already well documented in medicine that robotic surgeries do not guarantee better outcome for patients. Same thing teaching. Human less will be inferior in the long run.
Manufacturing, maybe a different story, but me thinks even with that on the long run, people will chose furniture finished by humans, etc.
Look what’s happening with music industry. Vinyl is back and not only for nostalgia factor, but it generates better analogue sound, that resonates with human better than anything digital.

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