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Is it just me or more people think using "Robots" to identify software is out of place and just incorrect?
by imranhou 4y ago
Is it just me or more people think using "Robots" to identify software is out of place and just incorrect?
- Dylan16807 4y agoI feel like it's fine. "Bots" refer to software entities all the time, and there's no meaningful physical action needed for writing a poem. Using "robot" for something that's not highly autonomous is wrong, though.
- freeflight 4y agoDepends how much you want to abstract hardware and software to define "machine". But the words roots trace back to the old Church Slavonic word "robota" for servitude/forced labor/drudgery [0]. In that context even a calculator could be considered a "robot". [0] https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-origin-of-the-word-robot/ https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-origin-of-the-wor...