Can you trust a robot?

Short & Curly

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Philosophy, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

As robots become more sophisticated and human-like, how can we be sure what they tell us is real?

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:02.0	Short you're listening to Short and Curly.
0:05.0	And Curly.
0:07.0	Well I'm not entirely sure.
0:09.0	Short and Curly.
0:11.0	Because I'm well actually I'm not entirely sure, that's end of story there.
0:15.0	There's no yes or no answers to discussing things.
0:18.0	Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly!
0:21.0	Curly! An ethics show for kids.
0:25.0	I'm short.
0:27.0	Yeah, what are you like 12 centimeters high?
0:30.0	I'm like the size of a, yeah like a sandwich I'm careful not to step on you because you're very very short
0:38.4	Yeah, yeah like got a wave and like get your attention but hey if I'm short then you're curly right not
0:43.4	curly I have great posture I have straight hair I am not curly at all well so who are we
0:49.0	what are we doing here I know for a fact that you're Molly and you're a TV star like literally you've been on loads of shows on TV and you're the leading lady in a massive new one
0:59.0	Well your car you're a massive science nerd you're super brainy and you work on ABC3's behind the news.
1:06.0	And Short and Curly is all about the big questions, about life, the world, and what it all means,
1:11.3	or sometimes doesn't mean.
1:13.0	In our podcast, we're not pretending to have the answers.
1:16.0	That's what we need you for.
1:17.5	Because it's really all about discovering other people's ideas, thinking about them and adding to them and today our puzzle involves robots robots
1:27.0	robots you are listening to short and curling You are a robot, aren't you? You are a robot, aren't you?
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