Which leads us rather to the conclusion that while we should of course finish the experiment we should also be trying to work out what else we might do that might successfully reduce this abject poverty.
Thrum was captivated and decided to launch an experiment with his fall Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford, offering a parallel online version free to anyone. 160, 000 students in 190 countries enrolled.
If this bold social experiment produces lots of isolated people, there will of course be an outlet for their loneliness: they can confide in their robot pets and partners.