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Anthropomorphic Robots
We can either use them or let them use us
Sophia, the robot, with her shockingly close to human form, speaks, “thinks”, interacts with others, and sometimes smiles. Okay, it does have a few moments of “just waking up in the hospital after anesthesia”, with the look blurred, but this doesn’t diminish the rest of it. So, the time has come for mankind to copy itself and its success (?) raises important questions and bifurcates.
The creation of anthropomorphic robots is another development that -for many people- is a threat to both the working sector and the human species in general. If there is a cleaning robot, a robot secretary, a robot behind the counter of the bank, etc., then what about those who held those positions until then? Will machines displace human beings from the professional field? And if everything is done by robots, will we lose communication and contact with our species over time? Will they disappear us in the end? Will they dominate us? And what if they start to replace us in other areas, too?
Having sex with a robot
Multinational public opinion research firm “YouGov”, conducts researches into whether to have sex with a robot or not. It turned out that the people who responded affirmatively were not as few as you might think. Of course, there is one condition they set…
