The Weston family owns a robot in Isaac Asimov famous science fiction story “Robbie,” which serves as a nursemaid and companion for their precocious pre-teen daughter, Gloria. Gloria and Robbie, the robot, are friends; their bond is loving and mutually caring. Gloria considers Robbie as her devoted and responsible carer. Mrs. Weston, on the other hand, is concerned about the “unnatural” interaction between the robot and her kid and fears that Robbie will damage Gloria.
After repeated fruitless attempts to wean Gloria off Robbie, her father, annoyed and worn down by her mother’s protests, offers a tour of a robot factory—there, Gloria will see that Robbie is “just” a produced robot, not a human, and will fall out of love with it.
What does Robbie by Isaac Asimov Portray?
Philosophically, “Robbie” tells us that when we attribute a mind to another being, we are not stating what kind of object it is, but rather demonstrating how well we grasp how it operates. For example, Gloria believes Robbie is intelligent, but her parents believe it can be reduced to lower-level machine processes. To appreciate this in a broader context, consider the instance where we attribute mental traits to ourselves that we would not attribute to programmes or robots. Intelligence, intuition, insight, creativity, and understanding all have one thing in common: we don’t know what they are. Despite the exaggerated claims made by practitioners of neuroscience and empirical psychology, these self-directed compliments remain elusive.
Isaac Asimov and AI | Conclusion
We’ve been told that peering into the centre of AI networks is physically and technically impossible. But they are our animals, computers designed to make associations by scraping, scrounging, and vacuuming up everything we’ve uploaded, machines that reveal our interests, desires, concerns, and fears. And if that’s the case, perhaps it’s not surprising that Asimov was correct: what AI learns is to be a mirror—to be more like humans, in our messiness, fallibility, emotions, and humanity. Indeed, Asimov was no stranger to frailty and vulnerability.
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