Chronicle of Higher Education: "To her surprise, [Sherry Turkle] found that she deeply wanted Cog to interact with her rather than with a colleague who was there that day. She realized this human-looking machine was tapping into a deep human desire to see it as alive–as good a companion as any human. She describes it almost like a schoolgirl crush." (Submitterator, thanks Fiddleback)
Will robots fail to emotionally satisfy us (just like other humans)?
Brain implant lets a paralyzed man feed himself and pet his dog
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Your brain can track two voices at the same time
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In 1978, a physicist took a particle accelerator beam through his brain and went back to work
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Copilot, BitLocker, and Hyper-V for under $10? Meet this Windows 11 Pro deal
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