189: Can We Be Friends With Robots? | Ear Biscuits Ep. 189

Ear Biscuits with Rhett & Link

Rhett & Link

Comedy

4.9 • 24.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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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. Ear Biscuits is nominated for 2 Webby Awards! Vote now!Best Host - wbby.co/vote-pod2Comedy - wbby.co/vote-pod10 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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