Robots Will Always Be Machines, Not Persons

The mechanical "woman" above -- through her human-written program -- speaks of one day having a family and being a person. Indeed, many in transhumanism and bioethics one day hope to establish robot rights or machine rights.

Never. No matter how sophisticated a computer is, it will always just be a machine -- dependent on its programming, whether or not self-written.

And no robot could ever truly "create" art. Art is a distinctly human and subjective enterprise, not based on wired-in program...