189: Can We Be Friends With Robots? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 189
Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link
Mythical
4.9 • 25.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
With 35 years of friendship experience under their belts, R&L dive into the world of A.I. and explore whether humans can truly be friends with robots, or if it's just purely on a transactional or activity buddy level.
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| 0:00.0 | Bramble. |
| 0:01.0 | Welcome to Ear Biscuits. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Rhett. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Link. |
| 0:09.1 | This week at the Round Table of Dem lighting, we are asking and potentially answering 100 |
| 0:16.6 | percent airtight answers to the question, can we be friends with robots? |
| 0:25.2 | Will it happen? |
| 0:26.2 | And the reason we asked this is because we were recently approached by a robot. |
| 0:31.5 | We were propositioned for friendship. |
| 0:33.9 | Yeah, propositioned us for friendship. |
| 0:35.5 | By an android. |
| 0:36.9 | And so we decided we would just explore that in the context of a near biscuit. |
| 0:43.3 | Because there's this general assumption that with the development of AI that it's going |
| 0:48.4 | to happen. |
| 0:49.7 | But then you start digging into the specifics of it. |
| 0:53.0 | And I just don't know, I don't really know. |
| 0:57.4 | So that's, it's a legitimate question on my mind. |
| 1:00.3 | I don't have a specific answer. |
| 1:01.6 | You know me. |
| 1:02.6 | I just want to verbally process it out. |
| 1:04.3 | But come to an airtight conclusion. |
| 1:06.2 | Well, I mean, having not thought about it very much. |
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