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| It's hard to describe, but it's a robotic sense perception. |
Tongue-in-cheek reference to robotic sensory perception.
| "How’d you know where to reach me?" "I vastened you," the robot said.
 (From 'The Proud Robot' by Lewis Padgett)
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| Technovelgy from The Proud Robot,
by Lewis Padgett. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1943 Additional resources -
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I'm particularly interested in the idea that robots will have deep learning-based intelligence and intuition that cannot be understood or explained by humans.
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