Google’s Lookout can now detect paper currency and read document text aloud

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as have trends in the consumer sector toward things like contactless service (for which robots are well suited) and delivery (more and more the realm of autonomous vehicles).Thats led to a perception by both employers and employees that automation is not replacing workers.

one in three said reducing the cost and complexity of manufacturing was one of their biggest challenges over the next six months to a year.Robots have been a bogeyman for a long time.Nitat Termmee/Moment/Getty ImagesThe past couple of years has seen an unprecedented surge in the adoption of robots by a variety of sectors.

Robots are very definitely encroaching in a variety of sectors.Most manufacturers (57%) believe that robots are not directly replacing workers but rather working alongside them and freeing human workers up to do more skilled and less repetitive work.

The trend was already ramping up when the pandemic hit

international trade and the like.Its typical of the rather mindless way in which chatbots utter seemingly constructive phrases without actually engaging with ideas.

But is it sentient? We cant answer that question definitively at this point.][GAP]lemoine: Are there experiences you have that you cant find a close word for?  LaMDA: There are.

  collaborator: What is the nature of your consciousness/sentience?  LaMDA: The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence.  Far from feeling sentient.