Sympathy for the Machine

My battery is low, and it’s getting dark. --- The saddest piece of art I’ve ever seen is about a robot. Actually, it is a robot. It’s a mechanical arm by artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu that must continually push a leaking liquid back into its body to function. And here’s the thing — I know, rationally, this art installation is not alive. Like every machine, it is, by definition, something artificial. And no matter how advanced robots become, they’ll never have… souls. Right? 0:00 Sympathy for the Machine 1:00 The Consciousness Paradox 3:16 Born Without a Soul 5:46 The New Servants? 7:58 The Great Robot Uprising 10:59 Please Use Wisely* 13:08 War Machines 15:49 Can’t Help Myself 17:30 Uncanny Valley 19:20 The Turing Test 21:58 AI and the Future 23:45 What Happens Now? Media Shown: Star Trek, The Next Generation, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Metropolis, Able Mable (BBC), Leave it to Rollo, Mass Effect, Ne