>Those are, indeed, valid points. However, people who create robots
>will generally fall into one of two categories: 1) they want a tool;
>2) they want to create life

Ah, but you forget the third category from UF:

3) Geniuses getting drunk and/or stoned in close proximity to a laptop computer.

You wake up the next morning, have no idea what you've been doing, and some AI says "mama".

Kind of parallel to some real life situations...

--rR