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[John Bailey]

I can't remember if I posted this recent profile on the other Ishiguro
-Hiroshi Ishiguro, world's leading Android maker -but it's absolutely
riveting. Once it gets past some opening business it digs really deep into
the libidinal, psychosocial and existential energies behind humanoid
creation. First class character portrait too, written by an author, not a
reporter. Recommend ed.
https://www.wired.com/2017/10/hiroshi-ishiguro-when-robots-act-just-like-humans/

On 28 Oct 2017 6:24 am, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> yeah, sounds more right than my fearful post ......see PM below, it
> seems....yet, sovereignty and its declarations can matter a lot in
> international law, if they are made to.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship...................
> .............Corporations are 'persons' in the US, we know...
>
>
> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/news/a2879
> 2/humanoid-robot-granted-saudi-citizenship/
>
> http://www.businessinsider.com/sophia-robot-citizenship-in-
> saudi-arabia-the-first-of-its-kind-2017-10
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's just business. The reporter is stuck using old robot revolution
>> fears to drum up the story, rather than reporting the facts, which is that
>> Saudi Arabia made a bid to woo an electronics and AI firm through a flashy
>> but empty PR tactic. That the firm itself is buried in the background of
>> the story is where journalism is getting this all wrong.
>>
>> On 27 Oct 2017 10:52 pm, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We have lost our collective mind.
>>>
>>> Www.innergroovemusic.com
>>>
>>> On Oct 27, 2017, at 7:12 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> You want another large world-saving cause for letter writing and phone
>>> calling and other activism?
>>>
>>> http://news.az/articles/world/126430
>>>
>>> Make the UN and most other nations OUTLAW this in international law.
>>>
>>> (Once again, the world outdoes my imagination. Citizenship? I could not
>>> even conceive of it
>>> therefore my innocence is outright stupidity)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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