My girlfriend and I were watching a video with these robot errand dogs from BostonDynamics



I can't find the exact video because I'm working, but in one of them they wanted to display how it could stand up by kicking it till it feel. Then she said 'aww' which I found strange because you wouldn't say 'aww' to a toaster or laptop getting kicked.

And frankly, the scene was kinda fucked up lol. There's talk about making machines that empathize with humans or the risk of machines with intelligence and no real empathy, but what about humans having empathy for machines?

Is that shit going to be a 'thing'?