Stuart Russell

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1,902 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2018 last heard 24 Jun

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But a four-legged, two-armed robot would be much more practical.

To some extent, yeah.

But I mean, our dogs manage perfectly well to navigate around our houses and streets and so on.

So if you had a centaur, it could also navigate, but it can carry much greater loads because it's quadruped.

It's much more stable.

If it needs to drive a car, it can fold up two of its legs and so on and so forth.

So I think the arguments for why it has to be exactly humanoid are sort of post hoc justification arguments.

I think there's much more, well, that's what it's like in the movies and that's spooky and cool.

So we need to have them be human.

I don't think it's a good engineering argument.

Yeah, and so could a centaur robot, right?

So in some sense, a centaur robot is... There's something ghastly about the look of those, though.

Is the humanoid... Do you know what I mean?

Your dog is a four-legged monster.

I know, but he's cute.

So I think, actually, I would argue the opposite, that we want a distinct form because they are distinct entities.

And the more humanoid, the worse it is in terms of confusing our subconscious psychological systems.

I mean, there's also what's called the uncanny valley, which is a phrase from computer graphics when they started...

to make characters in computer graphics, they tried to make them look more human.

For example, if you look at Toy Story,

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