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From the earliest science fiction on, the robot - like Golem and Frankensteins monster before it - had been cast in the role of
villain, its human creators most cunning adversary. In the fifties, Isaac Asimov had tried to impose a code of good conduct on
robots and their writer-creators, to reduce the theme of robot rebellion to the scientific absurdity and cheap literary convention,
but he did not succeed. As the fiction became more and more plausible and the possibility of the thinking machines aroused
interest not only among the visionary set, the writers, the philosophers, but in the scientific community as well, fear of the robot
grew in the popular imagination.
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The realisation that a thinking machine is still far off into the future.
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Will computers or robots ever be alive - specifically, self aware? Whatever their achievements, they are still lagging far behind
in speech and pattern recognition. And they are woefully devoid of both intuition and common sense. With their enormous
computing capacity but lack of flexibility, they are deservedly considered idiot savants.
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Essentially, the graph shows that as non-human objects become more and more human, our sense of empathy and comfort
with them also rises - that is, until an object comes to resemble a human very closely, then our feelings of empathy and comfort
take a immense nose-dive, to be replaced with unease and a sense that the object or entity is somehow wrong and even
malign. And while this discomfort is marked enough with stationary objects, it absolutely rockets once the object is moving.
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One such is the uncanny. There is no doubt that this belongs to the realm of the frightening, of what evokes fear and dread.
It is equally beyond doubt that the word is not always used in a clear definable sense, and so it commonly merges with what
arouses fear in general.