Yes, that's my point: as robots become more human, their activities will "blend in", as you say, with the things we normally do with folks. Right now it's much too jarring.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not rooting for the robots. Far from it. I don't want to live in a world where we are all networked together and have armies of little robot friends to help us with all of our needs. Yuck.
I was getting more to the true nature of the Turing Test. If you can't tell whether there's a person or robot talking on the other end, it really doesn't matter. In fact, you could argue that, for our own personal needs, internet bots could end up becoming much better "people" than real people. Which is very strange.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not rooting for the robots. Far from it. I don't want to live in a world where we are all networked together and have armies of little robot friends to help us with all of our needs. Yuck.
I was getting more to the true nature of the Turing Test. If you can't tell whether there's a person or robot talking on the other end, it really doesn't matter. In fact, you could argue that, for our own personal needs, internet bots could end up becoming much better "people" than real people. Which is very strange.