Read it and beep: what robots will learn from our greatest literature | Stephen Moss

Robots can be enlightened and civilised if they just read out stories, we’re told. We asked an especially well-read android, HOMER16, what it made of 1984, Hamlet et alAn encouraging report from the Georgia Institute of Technology argues that it is possible to inculcate moral values into robots by exposing them to the fictions and fables that underpin human cultures. “We believe story comprehension in robots can eliminate psychotic-appearing behaviour and reinforce choices that won&r