automatons

It's not troubling at all, if you stop and look at it for a second - people aren't automatons.

That's true if everyone on both sides is a group of angels, devils, spoiled brats, or automatons.

This is a running issue with fuzzy matching in general, but automatons are especially slow and take forever to build.

Japanese people are no more soulless, depressed automatons than Americans are psychopathic mass murderers.

Neural prosthetics sound like they want to create automatons, but it's possible that they want to deal with the military's epic mental health crisis.

Would be interesting if they conducted the same study here - personally find the coercive hivemind and ever-so-right-on-i-love-political-correctness-too automatons here far too much sometimes.

What are the political implications of automatons with unbounded geographic reach?

Complete automating of social life of automatons.

Why control people as automatons when we already have cockroaches?

Consider humans as biological automatons.

Companies, publicly traded or not, are not mindless automatons, inhumanly calculating the optimal methods to extract as much profit as possible, even though they do seem that way.

Google is not interested in these guys because they want intelligent machines; they just want automatons to better sift through reams of data in order to make recommendations and better sell you crap you do not need.

Why point to things like "consciousness" when our brains being biological automatons is a perfect explanation already?

:) > Why point to things like "consciousness" when our brains being biological automatons is a perfect explanation already?

While it would seem a number is plain and objective, much like a test score, it neglects to "tell the story" and unless all you want are gifted and highly skilled human automatons, you need a way to gauge "soft skills", which one would argue are as important as their core technical competency.