LAST WORD
As we play at being gods, beware humans, not humanoids
I've been watching videos of the AI powered humanoid robots on the interwebs. As far as I am aware I've yet to see one in real life, though I have my suspicions. Things are coming along at a cracking pace with these chaps. Physically, they're still a little awkward, like fresh colts in hour one of their young lives. There's a great deal of off-kilter lurching about as if they mapped their motion on the inebriated population of a bar at 1am when the vodka kicked in and neutralised the little balancing hairs in their ears. But the engineers are on it. I saw a pair of robotic legs - sans torso it must be said — flitting up a precipitous, rocky forest glade like a billy goat on speed. ..
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