We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
Minds are simply what brains do.
An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.