and hopefully they find a way to overcome the uncanny valley effect. I really didn't find beowulf or the polar express that creepy.
EDIT: what is the brain but a biological computer that takes in, stores, categorizes, and interprets data. every time you're in a social situation your brain has to process a fuck ton of information to carry on a conversation and to interpret other people's tones. so in the long run it's very possible that we could create sentient machines but there would still be limits like the assimov laws and others, no one would want a robot that could feel threatened and kill someone or a robot that could do better and be more successful than humans
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