I doubt it would be worth dying in order to own an AI-style teddy bear, since it wouldn't be much good. One must admit, though; the teddy bear was the coolest character in the movie.
I posted my previous message before watching the movies. Having watched them, I wonder how much of that was staged or set up to work just right, and how much was dynamic stuff that the robots really could do at the flip of a coin. For example, I wonder how intelligent the robots really sound in a normal conversation. In the case of the movie, they sounded pretty smart, and as if they actually understood, but it could be just a parlor trick (it takes a basic word and works off of that, like chatbot clients). Also, although I couldn't tell since it was in Japanese, I wonder how realistic their voices would be if they were speaking English (would the tone be like that of Stephen Hawking's device).
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