Re: you seen the movie, now buy the kid

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 07:31:16 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/12/22/1040510966660.html
>
> Sony soon to deliver child robot
> By Sue Lowe
> December 23 2002
>
>
> Not sure you want children? By the middle of next year, hesitant couples
> with a spare $[AUS]80,000 may be able to have a trial run with a child-like
> robot.

That didn't take long, even by our standards.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


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