If robots do everything, then what will we do? Will people marry robots in future?

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When China's top artificial intelligence guru Lee Kai-Fu talks about how AI is reshaping the world, people listen. And he predicts big changes in ...

BEIJING: As a journalist, I always try to ask smart questions. But I could not beat the questions that a group of five-year-olds posed to China’s top artificial intelligence guru, like the ones in the headline of this article.

Giving them primitive, fake and inanimate non-emotional robots to interact with is a cruel thing that we shouldn’t do as human beings. “One could put a spectrum. A plumber would be safe for many years, although car mechanics, not so safe. Assembly-line workers making an iPhone – okay. But assembly-line workers folding clothes and doing quality inspections? No.”

“So when you look at that much greater good over a period of time, I’d say don’t be too obsessed on the single issue of explaining why you did it and what’s the liability," he adds.

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