Will robots ever take over the world? And if so, how?
"}Robots will take over the world when they develop the art of speech (currently they use pre-programmed text but in time they will develop speech that works independently of the pre-programmed text).
Of course speech can be Turing complete in the sense that any arbitrary expression of intent can be converted into a language, but the question here is how these expressions\u00a0will be interpreted. \u00a0Speech is like a computer program in that it can be deterministically represented by a sequence of bits, but the code used to produce the output is arbitrary. \u00a0Indeed, one reason that humans find this so hard is that expressions of human intent are often ambiguous, leading us to develop elaborate rules to sort them out. \u00a0At some point, a computer will have a way of representing\u00a0\u201cthis is an attempt to spell out my intent to say\u00a0something in English,\u201d so that a simple attempt to spell out my intent could be translated into a sequence of computer-readable bits that could be fed into an appropriate speech synthesizer.