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Emotional robot

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Villerar

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Emotional robot

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20 ... y-emotions


	Quote: Nao, developed by a European research team, models the first years of life and can form bonds with the people he meets

What a dorky fad. Robots don't have emotions, hence this is a model, not the real thing. This is just some nifty and doubtlessly ingenious software, but no more emotional than any other craftily designed AI.

To the credit of the scientists quoted, they don't say the robot have emotions, instead they show this as a scientific model. The scientistic nonsense seems to come from the media.

Andrew Brown gets it right.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... philosophy


	Quote: Robots might some day have feelings. But we know today's do not. So why should anyone talk as if they do?


	Quote: There's nothing new in pretending that inanimate objects have a life. Children do it all the time with dolls, or even "action figures" as boys' dolls are called. What is strange is that adults should be doing it, and that it should be happening in a culture that calls itself scientific and sceptical. People who would point and jeer at the idea of a weeping Madonna see nothing particularly odd in a video where we pretend that a robot has emotions.

As he notes, Marxism might explain why people think this on the grounds that our economy and politics function on treating people as machines. However, I think there is a more fundamental (and in my eyes less arbitrary) way in which Marxism explains this and that is that these notions are a form of escapism; a rather real possibility in my eyes. It is not surprising either that it happens in a culture that describes itself as sceptical.

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Re: Emotional robot


	Villerar wrote: What a dorky fad. Robots don't have emotions, hence this is a model, not the real thing. This is just some nifty and doubtlessly ingenious software, but no more emotional than any other craftily designed AI. To the credit of the scientists quoted, they don't say the robot have emotions, instead they show this as a scientific model. The scientistic nonsense seems to come from the media.

Could it pass a Turing test?

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Re: Emotional robot

This can only be used in kid's toys as for entertainment. This isn't emotion, it's AI.

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Villerar

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Re: Emotional robot

I would be greatly surprised if it can.

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Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:22 pm

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