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Robo-rights speculation rubbished by researchers

Robert Ramsay

Mr Sharkey obviously hasn't heard of... 

...RealDolls (tm)

http://www.realdoll.com (probably NSFW)

Ben

Not tonight.... 

...i've got a terrible pain down all the diodes in my left side.

Greg

A Weapon of Mass Discussion 

Talkie Toaster not a weapon of war? Chuck 200 of them over the enemy parapets and let's see how long it takes them to surrender.

Ishkandar

talkie toasters 

That is banned under the "inhumane treatment of the enemy" by the Geneva Conventions !! Far easier and cheaper to send the mother-in-law along....

Walter A. Luethi

Moody Robots? 

Has it ever occurred to those AI-proponents that building robots suffciently intelligent enough to resent their work might be a bit, well, pointless?

Bren Flibig

Property rights? 

Assuming we actually produce robots of such intelligence, why would "property rights" have any more bearing here than they do on the "right" to own human slaves?

Or are they hinting at something?

Demian Phillips

It's not stupid, it's advanced! 

I figure they are trying to replicate every aspect of the "human" worker. Resenting your job is an important aspect of work.