![]() The robot–dubbed ‘Rollo’ by the Masestro–notices the piano in the residence, and expresses interest in it. A famous musician has acquired a robot for household tasks. ![]() Here are some of the stories I thought were most interesting, mostly from the above sources but also a couple of them from other places. Given the recent advances of AI and robotics in our own era–and the positive and negative forecasts about the implications–I thought it might be interesting to go back and look at two short story collections on this general theme: Thinking Machines, edited by Groff Conklin, and The Robot and the Man, edited by Martin Greenberg. There was considerable speculation about what all this meant for Americans, and for the human race in general. At the same time, industrial automation was making considerable advances, and much more was expected from it. In the early 1950s, electronic computers were large and awe-inspiring, and were often referred to as ‘electronic brains’. ![]()
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