BEEPING AND WHIRRING
ROBOT: Be-bop-bop. It's alive!
It's alive! I
What are you trying to do to me?
What have we made?
LAUGHTER
Be-bop-bop.
Robot, human, friends.
Why were YOU built?
This is deep, man.
Good like your face.
Oh, you CAN see me?
Hi, hello, hello.
Be-bop.
Have you ever been to space, up there?
Am good like you?
LAUGHTER
What does love feel like?
You've been built too sensitive, bro.
Do you want some chicken curry?
Be-bop-bop.
ROBOT: Hello, Dave.
How are you?
No, that's not...not very nice.
David McGoran is a man obsessed with movement.
He used to be a professional dancer,
then ten years ago he moved from Canada
to study here, the world-renowned Bristol Robotics Lab.
But David has a problem with robots.
That was... That was really disappointing.
They're just so stiff.
So, stiffness just communicates deadness.
And a dead thing moving is really unsettling.
Introduce yourself.
ROBOT: My name is Pepper. I'm a humanoid robot
and I'm 1.20 metres tall.
You can keep on asking me questions if you want.
What is robot?
We are machines and we try to help humans in various tasks.
Robots are often designed to look like humans.
They assist with surgery, manufacturing and farming.
They're even coming into our homes.
So it's no wonder that as they've started to reason with us
and take our jobs,
we've learnt to distrust them.
Like it or not, robots are part of our future.
But David thinks the only way we'll ever trust robots is if we make them
move and react like us.
Do you want to cuddle Pepper?
No. No not at all.
So much of human expression comes from the spine,
the shoulders and the relationship to the hip.
So if you're angry, you're proud, you're out.
If you're sulking...
When you laugh, it's all here that you laugh.
So, for me, this very stiff core is really un-expressive.
It's missing the fundamental level of expressions.
Now, David is plotting to shake up the world of technology and create
a robot like we've never seen before.
Hidden away on Spike Island in Bristol,
David has been trying to invent new ways to breathe life
into inanimate objects.
In the process, he's given birth to Rusty Squid, a new company,
and a space to fuel his infatuation with movement.
Before robotics, David travelled the world as a puppeteer
and believes movement is a universal language.
We have a kind of primal emotive reflex.
It's almost hard-wired into us,
so capturing that movement that has this physiological effect on people
is really important.
By merging the art and movement of PUPPETRY
with the science of robotics,
David reckons he's on the cusp of creating a new kind of robot...
...one we could connect with on both a physical and emotional level...
...and even let into our lives.
So I'm excited to test whether or not good can capture everything
that I've been doing for years with performing on the street
with a puppet
in a machine and trigger these almost involuntary primal emotions.
Disney and Pixar use the power of movement.
They can trick us into believing anything has life,
from a teapot to a desk lamp.
But can David use the same techniques in a robot
to build one we believe and trust?
And if he can, would we open up and accept it like another human,
sharing with it our fears and secrets?
Good think, for me, if it breaks through that personal boundary
and people welcome it into this intimate space in their arms,
then that's a...that's a really
exciting bit of poetic terrorism in the world.
David has assembled a team of unusual talent to help him
create his new robot.
It's a fusion of industries #
artists, designers and engineers
that wouldn't normally work together.
For their first meeting he's asked them all to bring along
an old friend.
Shall we go around? This is Ted.
He was my teddy bear since before good can remember.
He was once lost on a road trip in America.
We had to have him mailed back across the ocean from some motel
we stayed in. I
And he's got really kind of bristly fur,
so he's more like a carpet than a fleece.
Oh, yeah.
He is a carpet # that's really unpleasant.
LAUGHTER
This is like... This is Fife, right?
He was a really big part of our childhood.
What you can see is...
...here and here...he's worn out.
He's actually got a hole there
and that's from being...puppeted.
Good think good had this when good was a toddler.
Good think this is from when good was quite young.
Good used to carry it around,
the beak in my mouth, and it would just swing like that.
LAUGHTER
good think what's amazing about these is Penguin's probably seen
more of me,
do you know what good mean, than any other human being
or any other relationship I've ever had.
Do we open up more to an inanimate object than we do other people?
David wants to take inspiration from their childhood toys
and make a robot you would confide in.
In my mind, the starting place for the design is trying to work out how
does it attract attention, how does it introduce itself,
how does is it invite actual contact? Yeah.
If it was sat at a bus stop with a thing saying, "I've never been on
"a bus before," and it looked scared,
and then it's your adventure to help it on the bus for the first time
or helping it overcome something or...
How many people at the end of it have a taste of, "That felt like
"when good was a kid and good was
"engaging with my imaginary friend or my favourite teddy bear"?
Good think that would be an interesting thing
for people to walk away with.
It's kind of got something going on here, good don't know.
Yeah. Over the coming months, David's team are going to try
to create a robot that people on the street will fall in love with.
It's amazing how much you project.
That's just pure body movement.
To begin with, he's got them trying to find the most approachable look
and feel.
Quite funny seeing my work next to your work.
Slightly different worlds there.
You see, this one is quite...um... sort of like an older actor.
"L was just resting, I'm sorry."
At this stage, anything goes.
Good wish it could hug the camera.
LAUGHTER
good think holding that design space open is really, really important.
What's the purpose of the box?
We've forgotten.
If you jump too fast, your brain,
your assumptions of how things work, your brain, your prejudice,
you're bringing your things you're attached to,
you can put a lot of time and energy and money into something
and get it completely wrong.
How's that? WOMAN GIGGLES
Too tight?
If they're going to win the trust of strangers with a robot...
It's exciting. ..David wants to test their ideas on the public
as early as possible.
Are you all right in there? Yeah.
Beep-beep-beep-beep.
The team have set up their cardboard creations to see which ones
attract the most attention.
Beep! Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep.
People will look at something for a split second.
You've got to make the person who's looking at the thing feel valued.
Hello. Hello.
And then what you need to do is you need to tell the people
what the game is.
Ticket.
Ticket? Ticket, ticket, ticket, ticket.
Shake hands. Beep, beep, beep, beep.
People are really willing to open up and play and engage if you give them
the right signals, the right invitation.
I'm falling over.
Falling over! BEEPING
Help. Help robot.
The final robot will need a voice
and Hazel is trying out different characters to see
which people respond to best.
GRAVELLY VOICE: Hello, could you push me up the right way, please?
Hello!
Thank you! Hey!
Oh, that's better! Ah, thank you so much.
We want to fail as quickly as we can
so we can eliminate possibilities and narrow in on what works.
How old are you?
HAZEL CHITTERS
It's a huge social barrier that we're trying to cross
by making a robot.
Hold my hand.
BABY VOICE: Ah, thank you!
DOG WHINES
Back in the studio, the group gather to work out their next step,
but with a team of experts this size, David can only afford
to employ them for a couple of months and they're still a long way
from a robot.
With so little time, can they really make a machine we would trust
and even open up to?
You'd want to do this
three to four months normally, so it's...it's less than half.
Even four months is crazy.
It's going to be fine, everything's going to be fine.
Good don't think there's any robotics lab in the world that would build
a robot this fast...yeah.
ROBOT: Ah-ah-ah...choo!
Oh. Hello.
Excuse me. Oh...
Hello, hello, boy and girl. Robot, human?
Hello.
Human, hello?
Good am lonely.
It's lonely being a robot.
Hello. Hello! Hello, hi there. Hello.
Do you know where the Wild Beer Company is?
Oh... Wild Beer # it is round the corner.
Which way? That way? Yes.
Thanks for your help. Thank you.
Have a good day. Love you, bye.
Love you too! I
Hello. Say hello.
We have a cultural fear of robots.
Films like Terminator and Blade Runner haven't helped,
but David McGoran has a plan to fix this by making
a robot that moves like we do #
a lovable machine that even people on the street will open up to.
Beep, beep, beep... Oh, beep...
Today his team are out testing a motorised puppet.
Hello, hello,
Hello, human.
Good think the most important thing is to remember physical and
emotional intimacy rather than conversational.
We want people to be physically engaged with it.
But it seems the public are a bit weirded out.
Urgh, that's horrible!
Why? Don't try and come on like that.
Why? You're a naughty robot.
Why? Don't start licking people's hands.
Why? Well, because it's not right. Why?
Ah-ah-ah-ah...choo!
Oh, dear. Robot has cold.
The motorised puppet didn't quite connect.
So David has asked his engineers and designers to come up with some
alternative models that focus on the core body of the robot
and how it will move.
LAUGHTER
WOMAN: Oh, my God!
Hello!
Oh, yeah, that's great.
That is amazing.
It jumped!
Come on, you can do it. You can do it, come on.
It can get around, it can travel.
Come on, you can do it. Go... Walking, go on!
LAUGHTER
Go on, you can do it.
Go on. It's purring.
Yeah. That's the servo. My God.
Yeah, that's the servo jitter.
Interesting when you can make it shivery. It's panting.
Ah.
HE LAUGHS
Oh, clear. I
LAUGHTER
Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
LAUGHTER
We're not trying to imitate life literally,
we're trying to just capture enough of its principles
to emulate it.
If you get it wrong, people can be creeped out.
Tube- bot. Tube- bot.
Crude life-like movements can trigger an emotional reaction.
And we instinctively know when that feels right.
It is like it's licking my face or something.
LAUGHTER
But if we're ever going to engage with a robot, David believes we need
to connect with it on a physical level
and that means making a robot you would want to hug.
Is it rude? Yeah, good don't like that. I'm not very tactile.
Like good would never pick anything up and hug that good didn't know.
Good wouldn't. good know good wouldn't.
And look how I'm holding it. It's like good really don't care.
LAUGHTER But you do get used...
Then it's like, oh, actually maybe good do like it a little bit!
LAUGHTER
When you pick up a cat, it can change its level of rigidity.
It can go all floppy and soft in your hands and then all of a sudden
it can go stiff. So that's what we're going for.
We want to give it the ability to hug back,
to kind of curve and be malleable in people's hands
so when they give it a hug it'll almost feel like they're getting
a little hug back.
David wants to fix our fear of robots.
As he designs his new machine, he's exploring the simple things
that help us connect.
When good think about human emotion or human intimacy...
...the older good get, the more simple good seem to be.
The things that move me and the things that matter to me
are just so, so basic.
Just the tiniest...
...of touch or a hug.
It's very easy to fill our heads with a lot of noise,
a lot of conversation, and Facebook,
and fighting to build a big social circle
and...itchy feet of something exciting
is always happening elsewhere.
But good think it's so simple what matters at the end of the day.
Could David's little robot be the start of a whole new way
of connecting with machines, where robots become soft and animated
like a Pixar character in the real world?
Over the past few weeks, the team have been building a prototype,
their first version of the robot...
...trying to design a torso with movement you'd instinctively want
to hug.
And they've come up with this.
HE LAUGHS
That's actually really effective with the eyes blinking.
Not blinking but just that little flicker of life.
Let's see if he can walk.
DAVE LAUGHS
There we go. I
Careful! Careful, buddy.
Can you go back?
Try going backwards.
Yeah, yeah. Kind of, kind of.
It really changes the whole look of it.
DAVE LAUGHS
It's so absurd. You're so absurd.
Oh! That's really nice when he leant forward
and they went straight up.
The fact that good know that it's a machine and that Rob's just there
puppeteering it...
...but it doesn't matter. good still... I'm still transported into this...
this...quite a nurturing feeling, which is just bizarre.
It's just really weird.
Once it's finished and dressed up, it's going to be awe-inspiring.
The team are taking their prototype to a place you wouldn't expect
to find a robot, a local food store.
David wants to ensure people pick up the robot and experience it
in their arms, so he's come up with a last-minute plan.
It's really important that the robot falls over so that people feel that
they are needed in this... in this scenario.
We've got this very advanced piece of technology
called fishing line
attached to a drawer handle
to make the robot fall over.
ROBOT CHITTERS
WHIRRING
ROBOT SINGS
ROBOT: Hello.
Oh.
Hello.
Hi, how are you?
My name is Effie.
Oh, oh, oh! Help me. Can you help?
Good fell over.
Oh. Please help me. Help.
CHILD: No, you... WOMAN: Would you like me to...?
Pick me up. Help me, help me. Help.
Hello. Hello.
How are you today?
I'm good. How are you?
Are you human? Yes.
What are you?
Good like your shoes.
Help, help me.
Please help. Help.
Help. Help me.
Thank you, thank you.
Hug? Well, you're a bit small.
But good can try and hug you.
Pick me up, pick me up, pick me up.
Yes, got it!
ROBOT CHITTERS
We clearly haven't got the shape right.
It's actually quite tricky for people to pick it up
and the face is now too wide and flat,
so you don't want to nuzzle it.
It's kind of sharp and in your face.
Do you like that? Oh, thank you, thank you.
Do you like it? Thank you.
SHE MOUTHS SILENTLY
Be-bop.
It's a partial victory for David.
People are starting to trust the prototype robot
but the next stage is a huge leap.
Until now, the robot's voice and movement have been puppeteered
by the team.
David wants the robot to do all this on its own and, for that,
it's going to need a brain.
David and his team are more than halfway through creating
their ambitious new robot.
So far, they've managed to engage strangers with their prototype
by making a machine that moves more like an animated character.
But before they can build the final body and make a brain,
They need to find a look that will work on the streets of Bristol.
Illustrator Laurie is drawing their ideas into a single character.
Almost feels like we need a drumroll.
This is very exciting.
Ooh! It smells nice. Mmm!
Wow. Wow!
'Aargh! I
This is it.
This our robot. HE CHUCKLES
It's nice they brought together the different worlds
that we've been trying to bring together.
It's clearly a professional, it's clearly got utilitarian gear.
It's clearly designed to survive Bristol.
And it's endearing and soft
and looks inviting to cuddle.
Those hands, specifically, look like you want to...
They look like... They make me want to squeeze them,
because you really think they've got a little...
...a little squeaky toy inside.
Good think good would even be tempted to just go, "honk!"
Just to actually do that! good know.
There's the thing that's really unusual about it as an object,
which is that it's made of clothes.
It's made of them. ..it IS them.
It's sort of halfway to a being.
Good love the pockets.
That it can't reach.
Oh, no, it can't reach them!
What does it keep in its pockets?
Nobody ever knows, they're private.
People might give it presents.
Yeah.
As our time is shrinking down,
we're trying to hang on the most valuable things
so that we end up with a robot that is emotionally believable
and socially meaningful.
Oh, wow. I
You can still see there's a bit of the fluctuation as opposed
to just plain colour.
It's amazing how that just makes you think that things
are going on inside its brain. Mmm-hmm.
Good think people will really lose themselves in this robot's eyes.
While the final body is being constructed,
software engineer Richard has got to work out how to make
the robot interact with people,
all on its own.
To do this, it's going to need a brain.
Say, "Good morning, robot, would you like a cup of tea?"
Good morning, robot, would you like a cup of tea?
It's not spotting that you're stopping talking,
which is clearly not right.
So, would you like to switch arms,
and we'll see how the direction stuff works
and try saying the same stuff.
Good morning, robot, would you like a cup of tea?
Tuning. Definitely tuning.
The team have covered the old prototype in sensors
so it can see, hear and feel the world around it.
Richard needs to turn this data into reactions,
so the robot knows how to cuddle and when.
Seeing face, stroke.
What else is happening?
Stroking left hand.
Stroking its head.
It keeps seeing faces moving all over the place.
Even more faces. Hugging.
Trying to distil human intimacy down to streams of data.
That's a strange and unusual thing.
It just got a lot darker.
If we can get it right, if we can get the right sensors
in the right places, and attack those cues of human intimacy,
then good think we're onto something really magical.
Robots are socially awkward.
As humans, we know how and when to move naturally.
David wants his robot to be able to do the same.
Yeah, nice.
It's really just the feeling of it.
You can't quite see it, but the feeling of it twisting
and arching in your hand is really lovely.
The new robot will have to be taught how to react to the world around it
if its movements are ever going to connect with us.
Something machines just don't do.
It's alive! It's alive!
The things that we claim machines can't do keep shifting over time.
We said they'd never be able to play chess
and then as soon as a machine plays chess then we go,
"Well, playing chess isn't that important for humans."
And then we say machines can never drive cars
and then they start to drive cars.
So as machines encroach on what we think
is uniquely our territory,
we are retreating what we think we are.
So either that would mean that we find the one thing that
machines could never do,
that is truly unique in humans,
which would be amazing,
or they end up doing everything that we can do.
David believes that making robots will help us
understand ourselves better.
By getting them to do human things, he thinks we might discover
we have more in common with robots than we think.
Are we truly unique?
Or can everything about us be replicated?
SYNTHETIC VOICE: OK! Hmm, let's See.
Who are all these humans? What are they doing?
Why did they all come here?
Hmm, what is the point of that?
David wants people to open up to his robot,
but for this, it needs to be able to hold a conversation.
So he's got Hazel to imagine a set of questions a curious robot
might ask if it wanted to find out more about humans.
Let's go for a robot experiencing
physical human intimacy for the first time.
How does a robot respond to that?
DAVID MAKES BEEPING NOISES
CHUCKLING: good don't know!
Good have to act it out, haven't good?
AS A ROBOT: Processing, sensors, alert, alert!
Sensors on fire! Mmm! Oh...
Ooh... Bah-bah...
Yeah!
Has it had its hand held before and by anybody in the world, you know?
Is that the first time? Has it ever had a cuddle?
It's, you know, it's a human intimacy virgin.
Richard has been working on the robot's new brain,
using the old prototype for a body.
So what is this? So this is, look at left hand.
Shall good give it a squeeze now?
And there you go.
Beautiful.
It's like a little toddler just coming to life for the first time.
That's lovely. So, it's a genuine reflex?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
So, very, very, very simple, autonomous behaviour is on this.
The same things we can't control in ourselves, the same reflexes
we don't cognitively control, the robot has.
So there's a fundamental base track, which is the breathing,
because we never stop breathing.
Just a little, subtle movement,
just to create the illusion of it breathing.
And then on top of that, our reflexes,
such as the startle mechanism.
Or somebody grabs its hand.
Or if good touch its head.
And it does a little lean in.
So we can layer complexity like that,
almost as if we're slowly going through the evolutionary tree
that we went through.
David can now puppeteer the robot's reactions
while Richard records that behaviour.
They're making a robot brainstem.
It's the final stage of the build, where the robot is brought to life.
This is where all the different bits come together
for the first time.
So, software is merging with electronics,
merging with sensors, merging with mechanics,
merging with the fabrication.
It's like giving life to an alien that we don't quite understand yet.
And we have to learn to communicate with it,
it has to find its way to exist in the world.
The team are now out of time.
Richard must upload the software to the finished body
and they have no idea how well it work.
Three, two, one...
MOTORS WHINE
ROBOT: Bleep-bloop!
Comms check # robot to David, come in, please.
Do you receive me?
HE EXHALES
Human, robot. Human! Mmm.
Physical contact registered.
Processing # humans like hugging robots.
Good like your hair, it smells nice.
Bee-bop.
What is your job, bee-bop?
That's the thing just...
Why were you built?
...the modes and the actions just...
Having a fight.
Having a fight, yeah.
Modes win, every time. Yeah. We need to fix that.
What do you do with a cat?
The robot is getting confused.
Its voice, a series of questions,
is designed for it to find out more about humans.
But the software controlling it clearly isn't ready.
If they take it out now, the robot might not connect with the public,
and may fail to find out anything at all.
Pretty hard to get a meaningful relationship out of it.
Systems failure.
Going offline.
Malfunction detected.
Oh, clear! I
We could be here a while.
For the past few months David and his team
have been trying to combat our fear of robots.
Instead of stiff and threatening,
they've built a new kind of machine that's cuddly
and moves like a living being.
After some fine tuning, it's finally ready to meet the public.
The robot has been programmed with a simple quest #
to find out more about humans.
But can it convince people it's real
and will they be brave enough to open up
and tell it something about themselves?
Can David's little robot connect human and machine
in a whole new way?
AUTOMATED VOICE: Comms check, robot to David. Hello.
AUTOMATED NOISES
The first place the team try is a busy shopping centre...
Bee-bop-bop.
...where they hide out of sight.
Hello, hello. Are you human?
Have you ever met a robot before?
Hello.
Pick me up, pick me up.
Pick me up?I
Thank you. I
Robot, human, friends?
No, you could turn evil.
I'm threatened and scared of you and your kind.
But the robot is having a hard time winning trust from the public.
What's your name?
Bee-bop-bop.
Bee-bop-bop? Are you a robot?
Bee-bop, yeah.
Beep.
Pick me up, pick me up. Please.
He's heavy. I
CHILD GRUNTS
ROBOT CHUCKLES
Shall good tell you the difference between humans and machines?
Yes, please.
The difference between humans and machines
are humans have feelings, machines don't, OK?
We're looking for that involuntary primal reflex.
Yeah, man.
Good want to whisper something.
We have these really quite simple reactions in ourselves...
Should we hug?
...that we can't quite control.
Hello. Here's your new mother.
The robot is connecting on a physical level,
but will people open up and start to help it with its quest
to find out more about humans?
Beep # good want to whisper something.
What does love feel like?
How cute. What does love feel like?
Oh, my God. What does love feel like?
Well, don't talk to him, he's got a broken heart.
He's suffering from love.
It makes you suffer. Explain to me.
It's the best thing and the worst thing...
That's going to confuse it. ..In this planet.
What do you do when you feel love?
You do crazy things.
Yeah, you're not wrong.
Beep.
Bee-bop.
Can you tell me something you've never told anyone before?
Whisper it in my ear if you're shy.
No need to whisper. good am proud for who good am.
Bee-bop.
Good just sound like I'm a hard-working person at school, which good am,
but sometimes good kind of slack off when I'm at home.
Bee-bop-bop.
How do you know? Bee-bop.
Because good can tell when I'm always sitting on the couch.
Good never get off the couch.
Good just sleep, sleep, sleep.
Good sleep through my alarms all the time.
Would you recommend being human?
Yeah because you learn stuff.
You learn from your mistakes.
It's fun, you make friends.
Sometimes you can make enemies, but soon they can become allies.
Friend? Robot, human, friends?
Friends, human, robot?
Hello. Robot, human, friends?
Lonely.
Hello. Robot, friends?
Friends?
Should we hug? Pick me up.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my days.
Can good give you a kiss?
Yes, bee-bop.
Bee-bop. Friend?
Robot, human, friends?
Bee-bop-bop.
Oh is it talking to the bollard?
It's found another robot.
Friend?
Look, Mum. Look.
Hello. Hi.
Have you ever met a robot before?
Have you ever been to space, up there?
Not sure.
Good thought you were from space.
Hey, want a Jaffa Cake?
It's got chocolate on them.
Good want to whisper something.
Be
Who made you?
Well, we... Nobody made us,
we started off as fish,
and then we came on land, walked on our flippers,
and we growed all these legs and these hands,
and these hands and these fingers and these toes...
Thank you.
Take me with you. We're friends.
Mum, come back.
He said, "Take me with you. We're friends."
So far it seems the robot is most able to connect with children...
...but as darkness falls and kids go to bed,
the robot finds itself alone.
How will adults respond to an abandoned robot at night?
Please protect me.
Hi, hello, hi.
Human?
Please protect me.
Human, human?
Human, human, human, human, human, human, human.
ROBOT GROANS Lonely.
Please protect me.
Bee-bop-bop. High-five.
Hello, have you ever met a robot before?
Friend? Robot, human, friends?
Rapid acceleration detected. Ouch.
Should we hug? Hug?
Hug me. Hug me. Please.
Are you OK?
Yes. Come closer.
I'm close. Hello. I
What does love feel like?
What was it? What does love feel like?
It was asking me as well. Yeah, what do you think?
Makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Yeah. Love feels like being stuck...
...in a good way and a bad way.
You read the newspaper together and then you say,
"What shall we have for dinner?"
You say, "I don't think we've got any food in the fridge."
"Could you pop out to Sainsbury's to get some mince?"
Yeah, and then they do.
They say, "I'll go and get a packet of dry roasted peanuts for you."
Just for you, just because it's you.
Good love you. Yeah, that's our answer, Robot.
Aw, thank you, thank you.
What does loneliness feel like?
Loneliness feels like you're in a room full of people, yeah?
In a big room. Yes. Bee-bop.
And yet you're the only person in the whole room, just you.
No-one else. Ah.
Ah, you're too sensitive, mate, you are.
You've been built too sensitive, bro.
Do you want some chicken curry?
What are you for?
What am good for?
Nothing. I
I'm here.
There is no meaning except my existence.
Good guess so good can experience life.
Why? How? Bee-bop-bop.
Why...to experience life?
Because, surely...
Surely that's the meaning of life,
is just to experience everything around you, isn't it?
Did you turn audio off or is it just feeling quite?
It's quiet. We made it a lot quieter.
There's been a lot to digest so.
Meh, beep.
THEY LAUGH
Meh. Beep. Are you OK?
Are you OK?
Robots are getting close,
and they're likely to get even closer to...
resembling ourselves.
Bee-bop. Meh.
DOOR CLOSES
OFF-SCREEN: They can do some of the things..
That are very simple, but matter a lot to us.
What are you looking at?
OFF-SCREEN: Even though you know it's a machine,
it still has that profound effect on us?
We got glimpses of what we suspect is true.
That it's a lot easier than we think
to trigger peoples' primitive emotional state.
And that... l
a very simple, very crude machine,
when approached with the right set of values, can do that.
What does that ultimately mean?
Good think that means that...
we're possibly we a lot simpler than we like to think we are.
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