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I wuv you, monswosity!
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I vaguely remember that the distinction between a “robot” and a “machine” is that a robot is equipped to sense aspects of its environment and adjust its behavior accordingly to achieve its (programmed) goals. A machine will blindly follow its programming, even if its behavior is detrimental to its intended design. By that definition, an air conditioner equipped with a thermostat is a robot. And so is that water heater.
Get that kid some STEM, stat! We’ve got a future roboticist here!
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Much more horrifying now, if you ask me. If i saw one of those approaching me with its pupils all bouncing around …
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Ive heard dishwashers called robots, though they dont respond to sensor data about anything outside themselves. Indeed, the water heater only acts on information about something inside itself, so the robot designation seems questionable to me. Is a coffee male a robot, so ce it can sense the boiling water it makes?
As water is drawn from the resevoir, and the water heater responds to that as an external control signal, acting on external events. Cool water replaces the deficit sensed. I give a water heater full robot credit.
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In that case, she’s not mistaken to call this heap of junk, “Mr Robot”, she simply didn’t notice that it doesn’t have a [receive-love] mode enabled, or that it’s proper inputs aren’t connected.
In the full length feature film animation, none of that will matter, and the water heater will self optimize and become sentient, just like frosty the snowman!
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Will it die at the end, like in Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman?
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