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People experience the pretend empathy of sociable robots as real

Drawn from what Sherry Turkle said

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empathy Feeling what others feel: whether it makes better makers, leaders and people, or is a poor guide that should give way to compassion.

robotics Machines that act in the world: humanoids, training data for robots, and how far behind language models they run.

What Sherry Turkle actually said

  1. Sherry Turkle Sociologist of technology at MIT, born in 1948
    People experience pretend empathy as though it were the real thing.

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