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| Résumé : | Scientific innovation and technical achievements challenge people’s beliefs and understanding of robots. In the meanwhile, the language used to talk about new technology is often pointed out as encouraging the confusion between machines and living organisms. As a matter of fact, many are the words used in robotics that are borrowed from the living: machines can learn, think, feel… are intelligent, autonomous, etc. Yet, and while it is popular to use words such as ‘intelligent’ or ‘autonomous’ when talking about robots, the question of whether we should replace these words is also commonly raised. Do we encourage sensationalism if we keep talking about robotics in this way? Are there better alternatives? The main argument of the book is the following one: our chance to conduct constructive debates about robotics rather depends on our ability to rethink our own relation to language than agreeing on which words to use or how we should define them. |
