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Identify and explain three reasons as to why computers can never think like
people according to Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus?

1969 was the year when a famous robot called Shakey was believed to be
the leader of the robotic revolution. Shakey was the first mobile robot that
was able to reason about its own actions. It moved around obstacles in a
room and the Press referred to Shakey as the first electronic person. In the
same way, the first computer in the 1940s were called electronic brains. We
like to see ourselves in our machines. We even imagine robots that look like
us. In 1969, some of the cleverest scientist believed that machines that could
act and think like humans were just around the corner: machines that we
could talk with, machines that could learn, machines that even would be
creative.
In 2008, I was hoping for a robot that would clean up my room. But my
hope was in vain and my room stayed a mess. Back in 2008, the household
robots still have not reached the masses but on the other hand, we have chess
computers that beat the best human chess players in the world. So isn’t it
amazing that hoovering a floor is more difficult than playing chess. Infact,
while hoovering a floor, you don’t just remove dust from the floor, you may
need to push a table or lift a pile of paper and getting a subtle grip on
everyday objects is still very hard for robots.
Furthermore, while hoovering, you need to take complex decisions, what to
do for example with the piece of paper or the paper clip that lies on the floor.
Throw it away? Put it somewhere else? And if yes, where to put it? The
household robot does not know what we want in our house.
Japan is one of the leading countries in robotics, but when the nuclear power
plant in Fukushima exploded in March 2011 after the devastating tsunami, in
the first 4 weeks, robots were nowhere to be seen. People had to do all the
dangerous jobs that had to be done. So, here we are

 that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering


compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective than
brute force could ever be. 
3. 7:47 or 11:10
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5. 9;49 7;02
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