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An article inspired by Steven Spielberg's new film, 'AI' (http://www.ai.com), takes a look at what makes a robot human. If you ever saw the film 'BladeRunner' (based on the book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?') the question of when a machine becomes eligible for human rights will not be new. How far are we from intelligent, feeling, machine beings?