Friday, November 01, 2024

Are You for Real?

 A group of people are chatting on a terrace. Most of them are fit and attractive. The conversation flows smoothly. There is some bantering about a vacation spot in Italy.

Unless particularly astute in such matters, most individuals would not be able to identify which members of the party are human and which are "artificials" - expensive robots that can pass as humans under most circumstances. It can be risky to make such distinctions since there are human + robot couples as well as human + human ones and no one wants to give offense. 

This practice started in Japan in 2035 and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world.

I believe our society will reach this stage.


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