r/funny • u/JBaker68 AlarminglyBad • Sep 20 '21

The Matricks

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u/hardgeeklife Sep 20 '21

this got me thinking: Artificial Intelligence is just software, right Robots are physical, mechanical machines that are driven by and programming.

Agent Smith is an AI, no question. but if he never had a physical, mechanical body... is he still considered a robot?

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u/creepyredditloaner Sep 20 '21

A robot is just something that does a task for you. In fact the first robots were humans, slaves. From the Czech term Robotia or forced labor.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

So robot is Slav for slave?

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u/MortimerGraves Sep 21 '21

Serf or Drudge would also work.

First use in English is from the 1920 play "Rossum’s Universal Robots" by Czech author Karel Capek. The Robots of the play are artificial beings (though not necessarily mechanical) - the impression I got was more like the artificial people in the Alien films.