Can you trust a robot?
Short & Curly
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
By the time today's 7-12 year olds get their driver's license, robotic cars will become more common. They will be programmed to make snap decisions when something goes wrong on the road, but can we trust them?
And, as robots around us become more and more sophisticated and human-like, how can we be sure what they tell us is real?
Our guest Gerard Waldron doesn't think his granddaughter will ever need to learn to drive.
Gerard was in charge of the first trial of a driverless car trial on a public road in Australia and is the head of the ARRB Group.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and today it is nature. Short, you're listening to Short and Curly. And Curly. Yay! Well, I'm not entirely sure. Short and Curly! Because, well, actually I'm not entirely sure. That's end of story then. There's no yes or no answers. It's disgusting things. Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly, Curly. Short and Curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly. |
| 0:21.6 | Short and curly. |
| 0:23.3 | An ethics show for kids. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm short. |
| 0:27.2 | Yeah, what are you like 12 centimetres high? |
| 0:29.8 | I'm like the size of a, yeah, like a big sandwich, probably, like a big sub sandwich. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm careful not to step on you because you're very, very short. Yeah, yeah, I got a wave and get your attention. But hey, if I'm short, then you're curly, right? I'm not curly. I have great posture. I have straight hair. I am not curly at all. Well, so who are we? What are we doing here? I know for a fact that you're Molly and you're a TV star. Like literally, you've |
| 0:54.5 | been on loads of shows on TV and you're the leading lady in a massive new one. |
| 0:58.2 | Well, you're Carl, you're a massive science nerd, you're super brainy and you work |
| 1:03.6 | on ABC3's behind the news. |
| 1:06.1 | And Short and Curley is all about the big questions, about life, the world and what it all |
| 1:10.5 | means or sometimes doesn't |
| 1:12.5 | mean. |
| 1:13.2 | In our podcast, we're not pretending to have the answers. |
| 1:15.9 | 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 |
| 1:21.7 | adding to them. |
| 1:22.8 | And today, our puzzle involves robots. |
| 1:25.9 | Robots. |
| 1:27.0 | Robots. Do you are. our puzzle involves robots robots robots |
| 1:27.9 | you are listening to short and curly |
| 1:33.7 | this is no offense but you are a robot aren't you |
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