For example, Cynthia Brezeal, of MIT Media Lab, is designing so-called sociable robots that can approximate empathetic connections. Research has shown that people are also more likely to open themselves up to robots than to humans, because fear of judgment is significantly diminished.11 So robots may, in fact, be capable of performing caring jobs in ways that people cannot. Simulations can also enable AI to make novel insights from past data that humans cannot. For example, when the AI system AlphaGo competed solely against itself to learn the game Go, instead of using data from human players,
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