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The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns

Why robotics and language need each other Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter When Stefanie Tellex was 10 or 12, around 1990, she learned to program. Her great-aunt had given her instructional books and she would type code into her fathers desktop computer. One program she typed in was a famous artificial intelligence program called ELIZA, which aped a psychotherapist. Tellex would tap out questions, and ELIZA would respond with formulaic text answers. "I was j...