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Robots are lifelike, but they’re not alive

A Google engineer recently made headlines for saying his A.I. creation had come to life – a claim that ultimately led to his firing. Cade Metz, a technology correspondent with The New York Times, joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss how we want our tech to talk back to us and have feelings and why we are still so far away from that even being in the realm of possibility. His recent article is “A.I. Is Not Sentient. Why Do People Say It Is?”