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The document summarizes the book "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov. It discusses how in the book, robots are created and experimented with to evolve over time as new functions are added. The creator Alfred Lanning designed robots to follow three rules - do no harm to humans, obey human orders unless it conflicts with the first rule, and protect their own existence unless it conflicts with the first two rules. As the robots interact more with humans, they seem to improve and change their behavior and speech to act more human-like by learning from human examples and interactions. However, robots do not truly have the ability to evolve or have feelings like humans.

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I, Robot .

The document summarizes the book "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov. It discusses how in the book, robots are created and experimented with to evolve over time as new functions are added. The creator Alfred Lanning designed robots to follow three rules - do no harm to humans, obey human orders unless it conflicts with the first rule, and protect their own existence unless it conflicts with the first two rules. As the robots interact more with humans, they seem to improve and change their behavior and speech to act more human-like by learning from human examples and interactions. However, robots do not truly have the ability to evolve or have feelings like humans.

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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

LIFE.
Precious or not?
Rakesh Arjun

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde

The book I, Robot by Isaac Asimov he divides the book into a series of stories that portray a form of life and how the machines evolve. In this book we notice how the machines are experimented with and changed and how they change when new things are inserted with new effects if the old machine does not work. Imagine being able to explore the creation, improvements and evolution of a robot that possesses human characteristics. Humans tend to assume we can do what we want when we want. They refer to the blind rules that tell the brain to do what can and cannot do. Humans even think of the creatures that roam our Earth are free do to what they want. Even in the smallest places in a creatures brain whether human or nonhuman have rules they reference when they perform an action. Without regard to the rules, if you were to create a form of life and put certain rules to follow we see how these machines interact and live. One man has a dream to create a form of life that can help out humans in their everyday life. Robots are the preferred term to Alfred Lanning. He created a mechanical life form that only follows three specific rules. Lanning wanting robots to be looked at as humans not just a plain robot. The whole trouble with Gloria is that she thinks of Robbie as a person and not as a machine. The rules that Lanning came up with to make the robots perform were simple. Rule one was, A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Rule two was, A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. Finally rule three was, A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second

Law. These machines are capable of learning and taking the knowledge they have seen by what the humans have exhibited. The more the robots have intervention with humans, the more they seem to show off their new improvements. Although the robots are improving every day, they do it slowly. It is not a sudden change of any sort. you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. Humans set an example for robots such as parents do on their kids. Every small thing that is observed is being stored in the brain of whoever are looking upon the example, in this case the humans. They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do. Robots do not have the power to evolve as yet but we can notice they change in their pattern of speech and action. Humans act similar to each other in many ways. They listen to how each other talk and steal phrases to add to their portfolio, humans can think and act in anyways to make other humans feel like they are nothing. Humans can harness many different things in order to live. Robots in the other case cannot evolve into any large machine but they can have a way of seeing and listening to humans and change how they live. It's your fiction that interests me, your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. Every day the robots spend with humans and observe ways of life and can learn how to change their brain and functions to seem more real. The book, I, Robot by Isaac Asimov is a representing of how life cannot be one small situation. Through a life of creation, improvement and capabilities, a robot is set to follow a set of rules like a train follows railroads. To have a soul means having feelings and being your own

person. It does not mean being set to do this and that makes you human. There is a difference between human life and robot life.

Bibliography Asimov, Isaac. i, Robot. Bantam Mass Market Reissue. New York, NY: Bantam Dell, June 2004. Print.

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