Back in 2016, when self driving cars still seemed like science fiction and ChatGPT wasn’t even a twinkle in OpenAI’s eye, one medical expert made a prediction that seemed almost laughable at the time.

TOKYO (AP) -- The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people - almost. Japanese robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro, an Osaka University ...