Randall Munroe

What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

American Cartoonist

Gemma Whelan

I'm more frightened than interested by artificial intelligence - in fact, perhaps fright and interest are not far away from one another. Things can become real in your mind, you can be tricked, and you believe things you wouldn't ordinarily. A world run by automatons doesn't seem completely unrealistic any more. It's a bit chilling.

English Actress

Nikola Tesla

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

Inventor

David Blunkett

At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that.

British Politician

Jo Brand

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

British Comedian

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

American Scientist

Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Evgeny Morozov

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Belarusian Writer

James Cash Penney

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

American Businessman

Anais Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

American Author

Automatons are not only modern robots; historical mechanical devices also qualify.

Not Always Robots

An automaton operates on its own, following a set of programmed instructions.

Self-Operating

Automatons lack human qualities and cannot make judgments or feel emotions.

Not Emotional

'Automaton' can describe a person acting without thought or emotion, typically due to routine.

Metaphorical Use

Calling someone an automaton often implies a lack of creativity or autonomy.

Negative Implication

In mathematics, an automaton is a theoretical machine with structured functions, not a physical one.

Mathematical Concept

Mathematical automatons represent abstract processes or automated reasoning.

Abstract Representation

The term 'automaton' in mathematics isn't common in everyday language and is often academic.

Academic Usage

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Expanding our definition...

 So the question Can anything else happen? Well, we can do a little experiment. Let's just do a little mathematical experiment, try and find out. Let's just run all possible programs of the particular type that we're looking at. They're called cellular automata. You can see a lot of diversity in the behavior here.

Computing a theory of...

 In the fires of his forge, Hephaestus cast his invention in the shape of a giant man. Made of gleaming bronze; endowed with superhuman strength, and powered by ichor, the life fluid of the gods, this automaton was unlike anything Hephaestus had forged before.

The Greek myth of Talos,...

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