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Is it just me or more people think using "Robots" to identify software is out of place and just incorrect?


Depends how much you want to abstract hardware and software to define "machine".

But the words roots trace back to the old Church Slavonic word "robota" for servitude/forced labor/drudgery [0].

In that context even a calculator could be considered a "robot".

[0] https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-origin-of-the-wor...


I feel like it's fine. "Bots" refer to software entities all the time, and there's no meaningful physical action needed for writing a poem.

Using "robot" for something that's not highly autonomous is wrong, though.




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