December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
1408 pages
33h 15m
English
AT A 2013 ROBOTICS conference the MIT researcher Kate Darling invited attendees to play with animatronic toy dinosaurs called Pleos, which are about the size of a Chihuahua. The participants were told to name their robots and interact with them. They quickly learned that their Pleos could communicate: The dinos made it clear through gestures and facial expressions that they liked to be petted and didn’t like to be picked up by the tail. After an hour, Darling gave the participants a break. When they returned, she handed out knives and hatchets and asked them to torture and dismember their Pleos.
Darling was ready for a bit of resistance, but she was surprised by the group’s uniform refusal to ...
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