# Would you play with a person or a robot?

By [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008) · 2023-07-10

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This question was posed by my child this evening and it baffled me. Is this where we are headed as a species? Could very well be. We are no longer talking on the phone as we are texting. Yes, today it is a human texting back, but in future, who knows? It could be a bot that knows how we respond and it does it on our behalf? Today there are push buttons that say “Can I call you later?” or “Driving now” automatically when we set the phones in driving mode or focus mode.

It is very likely to have bots be the companions for our grand kid. Our kids are no longer going to the playground as we once did. There are bowling machines, computers playing chess better than anyone of us do, they adjust to our levels, etc. There are simulators for everything from piloting airplanes to racing cars.

With all things AI taking over, might we just be the bozos that sit on couches in Wall-E growing our bellies and not able to get up from those? Hope not… we need Natural Intelligence to prevail and use bots to help us develop even more. AI does not fill me up with dread, it gives me hope. Full hope that we can harness it to do so much more…

This post was not written by a bot ;)

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*Originally published on [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008/would-you-play-with-a-person-or-a-robot)*