Jon Ronson: A journalist interviews a robot
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🗓️ 10 March 2013
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Jon Ronson is excited when he hears about some 'sentient' robots, but when he goes to interview them he finds both less and more than he ever expected.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientists the... |
| 0:06.0 | It felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt like... |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:29.8 | This week's story is from John Ronson. |
| 0:32.5 | The story was recorded in February 2013 at Drum in New York City. |
| 0:37.2 | The theme of the event was love and science. |
| 0:43.3 | So I heard that there was some robots out there in America that had attained a degree of sentience. |
| 0:53.3 | And these weren't kind of, you know, robots built by sort of crazy amateurs. These are the people who were kind of that had attained a degree of sentience. |
| 0:54.2 | And these weren't kind of robots built |
| 0:56.4 | by sort of crazy amateurs. |
| 0:57.5 | These are the people who were kind of building these robots |
| 0:59.2 | or people who had provenly been great |
| 1:01.7 | in other areas like Ray Kurzweil |
| 1:05.3 | and like Peter Thiel, who invented PayPal. |
| 1:07.6 | And they were like putting all their money |
| 1:09.0 | into creating sentient robots. And the |
| 1:13.0 | idea was that the more and more information you pile into these robots. And one day they'll just |
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