What Is The Difference Between Robot And Human Society

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Memes have different impacts and implications on robot and human society. What is the difference between robot and human society? The potential of humans learning essential qualities through imitation is higher than the potential of a robot. In Sherry Turkle’s text, Alone Together, she explains how robots are able to imitate. In Susan Blackmore’s text, Strange Creatures, she explains how humans are the most intelligent and are the only ones capable of imitation. Robots do have the ability to imitate but not as well as humans because some imitations consist of emotion. Robots and humans can converge through essential qualities learnt through imitation. Robots and humans both have the ability to imitate. Robots will not be able to imitate as …show more content…

Robots will never have the same ability to imitate as well as humans. According to Susan Blackmore, humans are the most intelligent species on the planet. Humans are the reason robots exist. Knowing the fact that humans programmed and built robots proves even further that robots will not have as much potential or intelligence as humans. “What makes us so different? Could it be our superior intelligence, our consciousness, our language, or what?” (Blackmore 31). The negatives on robot society is language and communication. Robots do not have the ability to communicate well with humans because they do not have the same language. Humans will try to understand robots but it will not be efficient. An example in Turkle’s text is when Miriam is sad and does not feel good. She assumes the robot is feeling the same way. Miriam is trying to understand the feeling of the robot and trying to reason with it. She wants to understand the robot and its actions. Yet, I do not think it is possible for Miriam to understand the robot’s feelings or the robot to feel the same way Miriam is feeling because robots do not have the full potential or intelligence to imitate everything. A robot’s influence on human society is big because robots are therapeutic and they can make you feel good for a while but the influence can turn negative very quickly. What will happen when one day the robot does not know how to react to your problem and heal you? Who will you turn to then? Humans should turn to other humans in time of need and help. Humans are evolved and have the ability to imitate. The difference between a robot and a human and why a robot can make you feel better in the moment is because a robot will not fight back or react in a harsh way as a human might do. With a robot, you are in control and that could make you feel better in the

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