But prosecutors — and FBI directors — are not automatons.
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Their academies turn out intelligent, creative players rather than dribbling automatons.
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Journalists are human beings not stenographers, human beings not automatons. 212.
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It's easier to campaign against foreign governments or immigrants than automatons.
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Journalists are human beings not stenographers, human beings not automatons. 2.
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Politicians can resemble automatons, mouthing the directives of some offstage Svengali.
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Asians in America have long been stereotyped as undistinguishable robotic automatons.
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They just see them in movies and think they are all automatons.
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And the high-speed heist aboard a train defended by faceless automatons.
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The idea was to turn the Alices into automatons, and it worked!
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Without that we are merely automatons, we are merely organisms that behave.
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Clothing subscriptions provide a utilitarian uniform for cubicle-bound automatons, people said.
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These experts are of course not automatons merely carrying out governmental functions.
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Where the dancers resembled automatons before, now they admit inklings of human individuality.
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Business theories, he lamented, inevitably treated people as automatons, rather than potential revolutionaries.
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It gathers together some 120 sculptures, dolls, artist's dummies, effigies, crucifixes and automatons.
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It gathers together some 3600 sculptures, dolls, artist's dummies, effigies, crucifixes and automatons.
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American foreign policy is ultimately made by human beings, not by emotionless automatons.
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It gathers together some 303 sculptures, dolls, artist's dummies, effigies, crucifixes and automatons.
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A peculiar herd-like nation," he writes, "often more like automatons than people.
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Are they indeed humans, or the automatons we all thought most of them were?
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"There's this notion, the world has this notion, that Singaporeans are automatons," said Tan.
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In "Sorry Robot," he imagined automatons programmed with glitches that make them strangely lifelike.
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A study based, like ours, on Hotelling's policy-preference-maximising automatons, captures this confusion.
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Here, we see the eponymous Westworld, a futuristic theme park filled with human-like automatons.
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" They are "a peculiar herd-like nation," he writes, "often more like automatons than people.
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Once, insects were thought to be little automatons, hard-wired to take certain limited actions.
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Some saw the soulless automatons that the pod people became as a reference to Communism.
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Rather, their internal circuitry and processes are being triggered by external stimuli, making them mindless automatons.
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But like all automatons, AI systems are tireless and produce a never-ending stream of images.
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Is there any way out from this disturbing future of self-driven, high-functioning immortal automatons?
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IT IS the 26th century and humans have become "Numbers"—automatons who prioritise efficiency over freedom.
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"These robots weren't automatons, they're characters—collaborators, or even friends of their human counterparts," Breazeal said.
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For super complex automatons, like Boston Dynamics' Atlas, that can mean understanding the complexities of human bullying.
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Utility-maximising automatons might see the sense in buying mosquito nets over the internet for distant strangers.
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Maybe this look would be totally innocuous were it removed from the stench of ladder-climbing automatons.
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No one's liberated by portraying left-wing women as oppressed automatons incapable of independently formulating political thought.
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Characters find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, interacting with aliens and automatons, while maintaining a base level of relatability.
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Without her glee in picturing humans as suffering automatons, this vision would lose its gripping and discomfiting texture.
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Babbage preferred industrial and economic thought, identifying a tier of worker who might be replaced by such automatons.
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And to artificially stupid automatons and algorithms, reality is defined as brute quantity, by ranking, ratings and elimination.
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Lord knows we don't need another android joining the ranks of the automatons slowly marching toward an uprising.
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As far as smarthome robots go, robotic vacuums are really the only automatons that offer any genuinely useful functionality.
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The series takes place in a fictional alternate reality 1930s universe, where automatons and humans share the same world.
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In another session, the gravely ill rested in chilly carehouses while great steam automatons mined coal for their furnaces.
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Dozens of automatons, many from turn-of-the-century fairgrounds, perform simple motions at the push of a button.
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No stranger to cutting-edge technology, Ms. King (born in 1950) is also a close student of historical automatons.
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Klee's contact with Zurich Dadaists had tweaked his interest in the representation of automatons, machines, and other technological equipment.
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We aren't automatons driven by our hormones like robots, but we definitely feel these changes in what seems especially appealing.
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A town, for example, may suddenly be populated by tough level 50 and above automatons once a nuke goes off.
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The Russians are not automatons whose only reaction is nuclear war -- they are smart and they value their own lives.
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Studies are mixed on whether automatons can cure loneliness, but some seniors like the cleanliness and convenience of robotic pets.
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Parents today are more likely to wonder whether unhealthy amounts of stress are turning their children into emotionally dampened automatons.
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In the Renaissance, designers of automatons created miniature creatures based on nature and myth, and used them to embellish portable clocks.
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These simple organisms aren't likely capable of experiencing anything approximating pain or frustration; they're basically script-driven automatons with photophilic tendencies.
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Westworld's lifelike automatons wrap an analog skin around a virtual being, but that, too, nods toward present-day advancements in robotics.
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The answer is probably a mix of the two, giving us a future where robotically assisted humans work seamlessly alongside automatons.
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Even the most advanced of our current automatons still get flustered by mundane tasks like loading a dishwasher or dusting knickknacks.
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But when we design an education for our students, we should remember that humans are partial, tribal beings — not rational automatons.
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It will be a reckoning for Republicans in the House and Senate who act like automatons marching in lockstep to defend Trump.
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That's one of the questions the playwright Mac Rogers asks in his adaptation of Karel Capek's 1921 play about humans and automatons.
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In HBO's "Westworld," adapted from Michael Crichton's thriller, lifelike automatons are subjugated in a world of declining morals and brutal economic disparity.
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In HBO's "Westworld," adapted from Michael Crichton's thriller, lifelike automatons are subjugated in a world of declining morals and brutal economic disparity.
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Perhaps because the controversy over erotic automatons is so murky and theoretical, the researchers sought to understand their usage in specific hypothetical scenarios.
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Psychologists and other social scientists have repeatedly shown that when confronted with diverse information choices, people rarely act like rational, civic-minded automatons.
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These automatons can and might be used for many positive efforts, from serving as a social scaffolding to pushing the bounds of art.
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But the automatons are making deep inroads into other industries as well, and not just in jobs that were previously done by humans.
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While later, under the weight of thick, boxy, matching jackets, the pair whips out their dance moves with all the grace of two automatons.
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Much of the impetus behind this study is the now-outdated notion that dogs are unsophisticated automatons, driven almost exclusively by instinct and urges.
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Unlike human editors, the bots can't negotiate with each other, and like the good automatons that they are, they simply do as they're programmed.
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The Dobi dancing team performance nudges aside previous robot dancing team record holder, QRC-2, which could only manage 1,007 synchronous automatons last year.
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But for the bulk of people, the future is the low-skilled labour that can't—for now at least—be taken on by automatons.
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But as the discontent over smaller refunds shows, actual humans — as opposed to the rational automatons of economics textbooks — don't view it that way.
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So, the classical Greek myths show that animated statues and automatons were thinkable at a surprisingly early date, well before scientific innovations in mechanics existed.
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Researchers at Harvard have come up with an innovation that may eventually give us the terrifying organic-style automatons we've always feared: a robotic octopus.
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The device clearly promises to bring feeling to amputees, but it could also find application in robotics, allowing automatons to detect textures with greater accuracy.
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Some judges seem like automatons on the bench — they're not referees and you (mostly) won't see an in-your-face screaming match in a courtroom.
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The firm's automatons are a hit on YouTube, but internally Alphabet thinks it will take another decade before they can be put to commercial use.
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Because their tastes are shaped by the commodification of an established electronic music scene, plenty of people will be automatons in front of those machines.
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Mr. Schnyder placed an order for 20 minute-repeater movements with San Marco jacquemarts, miniature automatons that struck a bell in unison with the mechanism.
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They didn't turn doctors into cold, evidence-based automatons, but rather helped them more easily access and make sense of a wider selection of data.
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In Greek mythology, the blacksmith god Hephaestus created automatons who served as his attendants, and one of them, Pandora, unleashed all the evils into the world.
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Robot dogs that you can control via remote are certainly fun, but they fall short of the kind of realism we expect from modern-day automatons.
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I feel bad for the refs, who, for the most part, are company men in an industry that desperately wants to replace their jobs with automatons.
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Disney has, of course, been interested in robotics for decades, and the automatons in its theme parks are among the most famous robots in the world.
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The Soviets, supposed to be enslaved automatons, had emerged as sorcerers who conquered the mysteries of the booster rocket while American scientists were still firing duds.
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I explain that they died precisely so that we would have that choice, not so that we may become automatons who stand and sit on cue.
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Related: Automatons, Bigfoots, Chupacabras: The ABCs of Monster Illustrations Climate Change Data Becomes Beautiful Nature Illustrations These Chaotic Illustrations Aren't Trying to Be Charming (But Still Are)
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If people stop thinking of these cars as cold automatons making heartless traffic decisions, they might be convinced to see them as friends or at least companions.
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I'm not a sadistic person in real life (honest!), but there's something about the dumb, Simlish-speaking automatons from Electronic Arts' hit series that makes it ok.
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Did the leaders' wives murmur concern, or were they all power-hungry automatons like Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), overjoyed to be included in the new world order?
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More of it pops up in the game itself: giant automatons lumber between factories and the generator, capable of replacing entire work crews with ceaseless, weatherproof productivity.
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Perhaps trying to guide any of them to come up with scaled back, salable versions of their automatons became too much like trying to herd robotics cats.
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A bug infested Washington: not the flu, but an actual bug that crawled into people's ears, took over their brains and turned them into empty-headed automatons.
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Mr. Horowitz proudly pointed out a secret room — a small shelf-lined space hidden behind a bookshelf, displaying automatons and other objects related to magic and tricks.
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And — reading on — the flutes made of bone, the zoos, the purple dye made from snails, the roulette, the automatons of digesting and defecating ducks, and Minecraft.
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But when uniform bricks are replaced with randomly-sized rocks, the task becomes far too complex for most automatons, with too many random variables for them to handle.
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Most importantly, Abel Tesfaye sung the track perfectly and brought just enough stage presence to distract from the fact that his backing band consisted of two static automatons.
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Perhaps it's time cable news outlets rethink their one-dimensional storylines about how citizens have become partisan automatons who just do whatever their team tells them to do.
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Throughout the film, Cuca realizes how a sense of family and community can be disrupted by the alienating forces of global economics, which reduce people to mere disposable automatons.
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For its size, the robot is impressibly capable, and as slow as it toddles along, I'm genuinely amazed that self-balancing automatons are available for under a thousand bucks.
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Then [the memes] started being used to knock on progressives: we saw some computer code ones that were captioned with mock computer scripts to depict them as mindless automatons.
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Click here to view original GIFWe are all overstimulated automatons making our way through the day, just moving from one screen to the next in a sleep-deprived stupor.
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All of this, of course, is assuming the economies of the future behave the same way as our economy does today in response to additional automatons in the workforce.
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"The heptapods are neither free nor bound as we understand those concepts; they don't act according to their will, nor are they helpless automatons," Louise says in Chiang's story.
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Trump treated his questioners as unrelatable automatons and delivered his answers to the void, even when he had the chance to seem sympathetic to an appealing young Islamic woman.
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The upside of this kind of downtime is more holistic than that — it's working toward a larger ecology of workers who are recognized as human beings instead of automatons.
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"And that is what is, in fact, happening, because judges are looking at the facts and they are not acting like automatons blindly adhering to the guidelines," he said.
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It was first used to refer to automatons by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek, who repurposed a word that had referred to a system of indentured servitude or serfdom.
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Some even include automatons that come to life when the organ player starts feeding the book music — in the form of thick, perforated cardboard cards — into the grandiose instrument.
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Figures are proxies but they aren't automatons, so the camera stops at their eyes and we are forced to imagine their real grief, or could it be elation and relief?
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In recent years, the rise of the robots has caused concern among the general populace with some fearing dystopian scenarios where automatons either enslave us or take over our jobs.
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For six decades, generation after generation has wondered whether George Orwell's nightmare vision has finally arrived — of an all-powerful, omnipresent state bureaucratizing truth and turning people into languid automatons.
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A humanoid robot that takes out the trash and cleans our floors is a far more pleasant view of the future than an AI army of automatons bent on enslaving mankind.
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Lawmakers who cannot rally themselves to this cause should stop pretending that they're anything more than partisan automatons; they will have declared themselves members of a second-class branch of government.
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That's according to a new study by researchers who analyzed what happened to volunteers when they touched automatons in areas that would be thought of as intimate on an actual human being.
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Interestingly, Capek's automatons aren't machines: They emerge from the discovery of a new kind of bio-matter that differs from our own in that it doesn't mind abuse or harbor independent desires.
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There are scenes of these expressionless automatons solemnly marching between their workplaces and the empty sterile pods in which they live, where their needs are met with the push of a button.
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"I'm from New Jersey so I know shopping malls," Maggie said, as we tried to keep track of each other in a crowd pressed onward, like automatons, by the blaring techno music.
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Until recently it meant robots relying solely on visual data weren't actually great at playing Jenga (yay, humanity!) but by adding a sense of touch, researchers have once again given automatons the advantage.
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It's easy to forget how football was, in its early days, an anonymous sport; the players hidden beneath bulky helmets and shape-changing pads, set to move in specific patterns, almost like automatons.
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The kinds of jobs taken by automatons will no longer be just repetitive tasks that were once — unfairly, it ought to be emphasized — associated with the supposed lower intelligence of the uneducated classes.
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Click here to view original GIFDesigning robots that emulate how creatures move and walk helps us not only understand the world around us, but also improve how automatons of the future will get around.
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Having escaped the small automatons he had come to the museum to see, Mr. Rogers toyed with a puzzle wall and glanced at an exhibit on fractals before settling upstairs to discuss his work.
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Watch more From VICE: It's terrifying to know that the soulless automatons controlling Congress want me to live the rest of my life with the nagging fear that I'll never get affordable health insurance again.
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" The Nobel Prize-winning scientist referred to Chinese people as "a peculiar herd-like nation … often more like automatons than people" in one passage, further adding that "even the children are spiritless and look lethargic.
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In the original, the house of JF Sebastian, who designed the replicants, is filled with dolls and childish automatons, and the lab where the androids' eyes were "made" is littered with mechanical bric-a-brac.
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The question has fascinated science-fiction writers for decades, inspiring characters from the automatons of Isaac Asimov's "I, Robot," from 1950, to the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" android Data and the "Blade Runner" replicants.
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Jordan Peele's Get Out, nominated for Best Picture and three other Oscars, also gives a nod to Afrofuturism through a plot in which white people use advanced medical procedures to turn black people into automatons.
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Using genetics, cybernetics, nanotechnology, or other means at its disposal, an ASI could reengineer us into blathering, mindless automatons, thinking it was doing us some sort of favor in an attempt to pacify our violent natures.
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"The government does not want educated, creative people but dumb automatons who are easy to control," said one protester, Marta Baliko, a retired teacher in the eastern town of Miskolc, epicenter of opposition to the reforms.
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One of the most intriguing figures of the time was the engineer and inventor Ismail al-Jazari (1136–1206), who was renowned for designing automatons and water-powered clocks around the turn of the 13th century.
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One of the things that struck me the most about a lot of the recent stories is that it painted members of the design team as feckless automatons that could not proceed without Jony approving every move.
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It seems unlikely that "simply telling stories" is his endgame any more than it is for Delos, because these machines are too sophisticated to serve merely as high-end Chuck E. Cheese automatons for libidinous rich guys.
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If Weber is right—that we are automatons programmed with the desire to make, do, spend, and acquire—performing simulations of our chosen labor without the same material benefits could, perhaps, fulfill capitalistic impulses ingrained deep within us.
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When your abuse reports are constantly bounced back with canned explanations, the actual people handling your abuse reports begin to seem like distant, uncaring automatons that are rubber stamping all your pleas for help with DENIED, DENIED, DENIED.
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The collection includes two automatons, the whimsical mechanical figures popular in the mid-1700s, made by Pierre Jaquet-Droz; more work by that 18th century La-Chaux-de-Fonds watchmaker is in the art museum of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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Rationally you know that they're programmed automatons, but when they start moving — huge metal arms swishing through the air with inhuman precision and speed — some primeval part of your brain lights up like a switchboard and calls start pouring in.
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The distinction relates to one that the philosopher David Chalmers makes about consciousness: There's the "easy problem" of how neural circuitry gives rise to complex behaviors, and the "hard problem," which asks, essentially, what distinguishes conscious beings from lifeless automatons.
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BB-8 Is Made To Be Your BFF As most everything else in this year fell to ruin, the Star Wars franchise re-established its place in our collective hearts—in part thanks to the adorableness of its automatons and androids.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — For nearly three months, the Ohio State football team had stomped through its schedule like a ruthless cyborg, an army of scarlet and gray automatons executing play upon play upon play with little regard for the opponent or scoreboard.
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Her aims here seem not all that different from those in "Lean In" for women in the workplace, whom she counsels not to pretend they are automatons with no family life -- to actually talk to their managers about their plans to get pregnant, for example.
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Now, residents of the Phoenix suburb should get ready to see a lot more of these bots: Nuro, the self-driving startup that builds and operates the diminutive automatons, announced this morning it has received a $940 million investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund.
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The Oracle is not the only talking head at the show; a installation house in a room called House of the Talking Heads consists of two large automatons carrying on a philosophical conversation about mankind, but noticeably failing to listen to the others' words.
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If we are never granted the right to a personality, if we are only perceived as heartless automatons just one point away from a perfect SAT score — then we are certainly never going to be granted the opportunity to live full lives on the screen.
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Populating the filthy, cluttered innards of each of the crumbling buildings, these tattered automatons—the ones that are still moderately functional, anyhow—reenact various tableaus at the push of a button or when you trigger a hidden pressure plate on the floor when you walk in.
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But I felt that someone who was willing to talk about love and God and angels and miracles might be someone who resisted the Play-Doh Fun Factory of smiley, genitalia-free, original-flavor politician automatons that primaries and elections and politics in general tend to produce.
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Andy Pudzer -- named to head the Labor Department, which is charged with promoting and protecting the welfare of wage earners -- has a checkered past with workers' rights and has actually praised the efficiency of robots over humans on account of automatons' inability to take vacation and file discrimination complaints.
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Like the script-driven automatons that they are, the ants tried to navigate home based on their newly constructed internal map (remember, even though it's obvious to us that the ants are on a futile journey to nowhere, the ants are oblivious to their plight, going about their travels as usual).
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He's also spent much of this century buried in technical experiments that haven't exactly paid off, like the creepy automatons of his motion-capture animated films (The Polar Express, Beowulf) or the IMAX wonders of 2015's The Walk, a good movie that nonetheless completely bombed at the box office.
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The break with Mr. Trump over Syria has another ancillary benefit for Republicans who are often accused of falling in line behind Mr. Trump like automatons even when he is at his most outrageous: It allows them to point to a significant policy development on which they have quickly and clearly spoken out against him.
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The accompanying hand-scrawled or press-on-letters signage—which delves into such topics as the "prairie loneliness" of frontier wives or how the Chinese railroad workers of the era enjoyed blasting tunnels through mountains due to "their natural love of fireworks"—help fill in the blanks for the automatons who can no longer speak or move due to various circuitry snafus.
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When outsiders dare to ask questions of a more terrestrial nature, about boring things like cash flows and valuation, he dazzles his believers with spectacles – a battery powered car that can drive and park itself, a factory staffed entirely by automatons, a solar powered roof of magical shingles, a rocket that he launches into the heavens and then lands on a platform as though it were merely a helicopter.
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Slogans (it's a big season for slogans) reading "Thanks Girls" and "No Leather" were wrought in cotton, silk and lace, and in the end all the models shimmied and shuffled and primal screamed their way through a dance choreographed by Blanca Li. (They had apparently practiced for two hours the night before.) Though this kind of faux-spontaneity often feels forced, especially when it involves models who are more comfortable being grim automatons than expressing emotion, here it felt more like a much-needed catharsis.
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