Sometimes therro thinks the admiralty named them automatons to make everyone forget that these had once been free , living creatures .
有的时候,泰洛会想,军部之所以把他们命名为奥奴,是为了让大家都忘掉,他们曾经也是自由自在的生物吧。
The contest , held at the association for the advancement of artificial intelligence annual conference in san francisco , california , had a number of automatons competing to see who could best move pieces quickly , accurately and legally in accordance with the rules of chess .
Even " ageing amateurs " can defeat today 's batch of footballing automatons , admits mr stone . But cleverer breeds of robot will learn from watching humans , thinks subramanian ramamoorthy at the university of edinburgh .
Psychiatrist edward m. hallowell , m.d. , says that the issue isn 't that the human species is devolving into ill-mannered automatons . Rather , the accelerated pace of office life has us made us lose touch with common courtesies once taken for granted , like saying , " good morning . "
Ms chua does not want either of her daughters " to end up like one of those weird asian automatons who feel so much pressure from their parents that they kill themselves after coming in second on the national civil service exam " .